cheep filter vs brand filter

[fiveoffive]

hi guys

Just a few months back I got talked into buying a resun 2800l uv filter.
at a cost of $260 its vey cheep and comes complete with media . huge amout
while the filter is a great buy the noise and how hard it was to prime so it would quite down a bit
loud and harder then one would expect .
the parts of the pipeing are easy to use but the tube was so cheep that it kinked and cut its own water flow .
cleaning a filter of its size with no
way to remove any water before was very very hard.

over all it lives up to what it says on the box with a massive amount of media and water flow but at a cost that many could not live with .huge noise and just a pain to deal with .

So I went into my lfs and asked the very helpful owner what he thinks I should buy .
after he hurd my story about my cheep filter he told me to buy a fluval fx5 at over twice the price of the resun I was like this better be good. And it was !
much easyer to set up and at lest 10 to 15 db quite to the resun. the filter holds about 60 % less media then the resun but I fould it todo a better job at filtration.
so I would have to say fluval fx5 is worth every $.


so in conclusion I would say cheep does not mean good.
and some times it pays to listen to your lfs manager .

 

[Fat Homer]

I've often said because its cheap doesnt make it bad, and expensive doesnt make it necessarily good...

A lot of cheaper brands copy designs of larger brands but will often miss put important functions that make life easier...

So depending on budgets you can go with cheaper branded products, but gotta know what your looking for...


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[fiveoffive]

true I have been given a jhw 308 its a $79 filter im testing on a 3 foot tank .
so far its very good . no fluval but at $79 a realy good buy.
quite and easy to use .

on my main tank ill only trust brands for now

 

[Fat Homer]

I guess personally now that all my tanks are larger 50G and up, i don't trust cheaper brands of stuff since they don't always have the best track records and i can't afford to risk a chance of something failing in that sense...

But i have used cheaper branded stuff in the past and not had problems either, so yeah, there are always exceptions

 

[ecoli73]

I am using both the expensive(eheim) and the cheap(sunsun) on mine but in the long run, I prefer my eheims.


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[theyangman]

I have always perhaps gotten lucky and found some well taken care of used name brand stuff for the price of new cheaper units. I got two eheim pro 3 g160's from a lady for 300 bucks! That included the hydor inline heaters and all the media and upgrading spray bars and tubing. Two years later they are running perfectly fine. I also go my fx5 complete for 140 with media.

With the amount of people leaving the hobby here and there I'd say wait, plan carefully and you can almost always scoop a good deal within the fourms.

So I have never had the need to go to the cheap brands, perhaps its luck and some patience, but id rather wait and score good solid units at a smoking deal than go new and have to settle for sub par.

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