I never liked my aquaclear filters. I don't use them anymore. I don't even own them anymore. But I recognize that they have a great design and many benefits.
There are a lot of great products out there. Everyone should just use what works for them.
I've got sponges, sumps, magdrive pumps, sunsun canisters, fluval canisters, whisper power filters, aqueon powerfilters, eheim canisters, box corner filters... Some of the stuff is in use, some isn't.
I'd never put a single canister on a tank, period. I lost alot of livestock when a 3 year old, well maintained Eheim 2215 decided to quit on me on my planted 40gal. Ohnoes! Eheim is the best! Impossible! I replaced it with 2 sunsun canisters, each with their own inline heater. Redundant, safe, piece of mind. Sure the odds of a sunsun failing are greater than a single Eheim, but that's why I got two.
Whatever you chose, engineer some redundancy into your system. Nothing like panicking when your sole source of filtration takes a dive.
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