Filter for 75 gallon long?

[jaws7777]

Something's wrong If your canister can clog to the point of not operation. I used to clean my cans every.3months and never had that happen. One member cleans his eheims once a yr

 

[elbereth]

Yeah I had one of the downsides of canister filters happen today. I showed up at the fish room about 4 pm only to find no flow through my 2 magnum 350s. Well I have no idea how long they weren't running so I had to clean them out and change the mechanical media and when I turned it back on I tested the water and had to do a fin level water change. Luckily I have a sponge in there so the cycle will recover quickly

Lucky that you caught it quickly. I'd worry about something like this happening when I'm away from home.

 

[thefredpit]

Something's wrong If your canister can clog to the point of not operation. I used to clean my cans every.3months and never had that happen. One member cleans his eheims once a yr

the 1st canister in the daisy chain is filled with nothing but polyfil and I knew it was time to change it but the last 2 weeks I've been sick and have sprained both ankles so the maintenance on all the tanks hasn't been what I usually do. I was actually planning on replacing the polyfil yesterday already

 

[thefredpit]

Lucky that you caught it quickly. I'd worry about something like this happening when I'm away from home.

normally if I'm going out of town it is only for a max of 3 days and I change all mechanical filtration before hand to prevent it from happening

 

[clm08k]

if you aren't wanting to do canister because of the cleaning (fair), I would suggest either sump or Aquaclear 110 HOB.

 

[Rocksor]

I hate removing the HMF (or any sponge filter) to rinse it. A lot of the crud comes off while removing it from the tank, and then you have to spend extra time to vacuum the bottom of the tank. Even with a water pump, the HMF filter was much noiser than an a canister filter. The buzz of the water pump in the tank bothered me.