and the newer eheims have a lever to turn off the hoses and quick disconnect to just lift out the container and take it to your tub or toilet. Bad Ass
Done with Canisters
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The emperor 400 is not that great as the spray bar (internal) clogs quite often.
I floss mine out weekly.
The new fluval HOB filters look pretty awesome. I'd try one of those if I was in the market for a new HOB.
I run only two kinds of filters: Eheim canisters or AC HOBs ... no complaints
I don't get why you would say Eheims are tough to maintain ... not only are they straightforward and simple, but you only need to do it 3-4x year ...
I don't get why you would say Eheims are tough to maintain ... not only are they straightforward and simple, but you only need to do it 3-4x year ...
I run a sump and wet/dry on all my tanks and will never go back to canisters or HOB not even for small tanks. The efficiency and ease of use with a wet/dry, simply can not be beat. The price can not be beat either if you build your own.
I do build my own filter setups though. If you don't design them for efficiency and ease of use, than they wont be.
I cut my own filter pads from polyester fabric I get by the yard cheaply at the fabric store and use pot scrubbers for bio-media. I design my sumps to have a bio-tower with mechanical filtration on top and also have an algae scrubber in the sump. My water perimeters can't get much better and I have not needed to do water changes on any of my tanks running an algae scrubber.
All I do is change the filter pad about once a week (which is VERY easy) and top off the tank about once a week, oh and feed the fish. I use a pretty fine filter pad so it needs to be changed often but I could switch to a more course pad and probably drop down to changing the pad once a month. But the pad I use now, polishes the water very well and the tank water is crystal clear.
I do build my own filter setups though. If you don't design them for efficiency and ease of use, than they wont be.
I cut my own filter pads from polyester fabric I get by the yard cheaply at the fabric store and use pot scrubbers for bio-media. I design my sumps to have a bio-tower with mechanical filtration on top and also have an algae scrubber in the sump. My water perimeters can't get much better and I have not needed to do water changes on any of my tanks running an algae scrubber.
All I do is change the filter pad about once a week (which is VERY easy) and top off the tank about once a week, oh and feed the fish. I use a pretty fine filter pad so it needs to be changed often but I could switch to a more course pad and probably drop down to changing the pad once a month. But the pad I use now, polishes the water very well and the tank water is crystal clear.
