Am I the only one who hates eheim canisters?

[Oreo]

Oh and filter floss is supposed to be placed at the top of the filter not at the bottom buddy. This way you don't even have to touch the bio media

This is exactly the problem. With the filter floss at the top all sorts of crap gets caught in the biomedia & the blue coarse sponge in the middle. It's got enough biomedia to handle a huge bio-load in a 75gal tank, but it only has the mechanical filtration stamina for a few gold fish in a 5gal tank. Which is exactly what my 2213 has been demoted to.

Maybe I was just sold on the eheim with unreasonable expectations. I was told when I bought it that it was THE BEST. It is very clearly lacking & I've continuously been disappointed by it over the last two years. I'm glad it's working well for so many of you, but based on my experience, I'm surprised to see so many of you have anything good to say at all.

 

[Fry]

I have the ehfisub and ehfimech in nylon bags for super easy clean up.

PROBLEM SOLVED!

Great idea!

 

[FishGoneWild]

There is nothing wrong with Eheim Classic Canister filters. If people are going on about how they last for 10 years without a problem , did you ever stop think that maybe you're the one not doing something right?

I am sorry if you had to break a sweat in order to maintenance your canister filter. Sometimes a little work ensures the long life of the fish that you chose to take care of.

If it bothers you to change the filter media which doesn't stay clean forever, then dont stay in the aquarium hobby.

I think your point was well taken. This is not a matter of Eheim Classick being faulty or it's a bad filter. I think some us just like to do maintainance the smart way to increase efficiency of our time during the day so that we could use the remaining time to gaze at our aquariums. The Eheim Classick works great but let's face it the design is ancient and some of us prefer more modern canister filter design. I love my Eheim Pro II and Rena XP3 over all the other brands. To conclude my statement, I think it's a matter of preference more and that's the determining factor why a person rate one filter more superior than others.

 

[japes]

The design is ancient for a reason, it work's incredibly well. I'm sure you've heard the saying "If it isn't broken, don't fix it", they've got all the other canister series, but for the price you cannot beat the Eheim Classics for flow and reliability.

 

[K626]

I love my eheim 2028. Just love it. I have no problems with it. The only problem I've had is when the power goes out, the back pressure causes it to drip from the rim a bit. Other than that, it keeps my 55 clean and clear with two oscars.

 

[Oreo]

It seems I've stirred up a hot topic here though. I'm sorry for getting a few all riled up. I did not intend to troll.

 

[johnptc]

its allllll right.......

 

[japes]

I'm not riled up at all, just voraciously defending my filter of preference

 

[fishoverlivingspace]

A few things to say in the defense of the almighty EHEIM:

1. The water flows from the bottom up so that gravity works against it to ensure that water is flowing past all the bio-media and not just the middle(in some down-flow cans, the water just flows down through the center like a waterfall, and the outside bio-media does almost nothing). Going from down up causes the water level of the whole can to rise slowly, thus water has more contact time with the media, and is better filtered.

2. Eheim never claimed to be the best at high flow. Their philosophy has always been that the more time water spends in contact with the filter media, the cleaner it's gonna get, so they don't necessarily focus on high-flow, and more so CLEAN WATER.

3. If you want your Eheim to act as a mechanical filter (they are primarily designed for bio-filtration), then put a sponge prefilter on your intake. If you're going to complain about cleaning that once every week or two, then you just might be the laziest person I've ever heard of. With a prefilter, all you really need to do is give the inside a good rinsing a couple times a year, and you're good to go.

4. I have 5 Eheim cans (and about a dozen Eheim Liberty HOB's), 2 Pro II 2028's, 1 Pro II 2026, and 2 Classic 2213's. 4/5 I bought new, the 2026 I bought used, at about 3-4 years old, and I can't tell the difference in performance! They last so long it's crazy.

5. EHEIMS RULE (Maybe there's a little German heritage behind this statement).

Just my 5 cents.....

 

[Oreo]

Through my trials with my eheim, I came to some of the same conclusions- they're primarily a bio-filter (and a good value for that purpose), and that a prefilter of some sort was absolutely essential. But I found the simple intake sponges to be inadequate in several ways. So I went about trying a few different sponge filters, & then went on to design a few mechanical filters on my own... long-story-short, I wound up redesigning & DIY-ing my whole aquarium filter system & ditching the eheim, wiser of it's faults.