ac110 and magnum hob for 58 gallon?
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AC110 and a small canister for polishing, IMO. So much easier to customize media in a canister. Eheim 2213 is like $80 or penn plax cascade 500 is like $60. Load them up with filter floss and purigen or whatever you want.
Im going off the assumption that he goes with one AC as I suggested. Two is a hell of a lot better more sponge more flow more capacity. But if he only gets once AC I would suggest he had something small as a back up.Bderick67;3435953; said:
The clear winner here is two AC's no doubt about that. I just don't think he will need it. More is always better but not always necessary.
how do you figure that?jschall;3436029; said:
with the ac110 you dont have individual baskets to fill, but rather one 4L(ish) basket that you simply layer the media in. same capacity, and easier, if not just as easy to customize your media.
bitteraspects;3436049; said:
Mmmm. I have an emperor 400 and, while it's a great filter, the media is hard to customize. Perhaps ACs are easier.
I still think canisters are better, though.
jschall;3436063; said:
lol. you cant "customise" the media in an emperor. your only option is those "fill your own media" basket things (the grey ones), and even those have 0 media volume. the design of the ac110 is similar to a canister because it pushes the water from the bottom, up through all the media in the basket. its pretty much a hang on canister.
tcarswell;3436036; said:
How do you know what would be necessary? He did not provide stock, tank dimensions, type of tank set up nor planned maintenance schedule. The OP only asked what people would recommend giving two specific filter choices.
IMO more is not always better, and alot more info would be needed to say what is necessary.
Emperor's cheaper though. I like my emperor+canister configuration. Emperor has the wet/dry biowheels with basic mechanical filtration, canister does additional mechanical and lots of polyfil and purigen. Was cheap, too.bitteraspects;3436073; said:
emperor is maybe $10-20 cheaperjschall;3436115; said:
AC is 50%-100% more effective. lol
but to each his own
Bderick67;3436088; said:
lol chill out. Where did I say I KNEW what was neccesary ???? I said its not Always neccesary. Intending for the OP to maybe help us with additional information to select the proper filter given his situation if he wanted to. You totally misunderstood me.
Why you chose to single out my post I don't know.
