how are you filling the filter? i dont know the fx filter but is it filling through the inlet pipe from the tank? it sounds to me like a airlock/break in the syphoning .

does it have a ball in the outlet strainer in the fish tank ( i know the 304's do and if they were not clean then they alowed water to run back into the tank breaking the syphon!)

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