Sunsun's any Good?

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HI EVERYBODY!

Question: Sunsun canisters. Any good?

My kids inherited a 20 gal tank from friends. Thing has 5 four inch goldfish. YES I SAID FIVE!Two fast swimmers, two split tails and a bug-eyed freeky looking moor. So Im looking at this tank and shaking my head in shock and trying to explain to kids that its overloaded but you know kids dont get that. So until I can get a big tank for them I am going to get a good sized canister to help filtration and bio load. But there are budgetary concerns when you have kids.

Back to the question: I see a Sunsun, 4-stage, 370gph, PRO (full set of filters and bio media) for $50. Start reading reviews and hear rumors that these are rebranded JBJ reactors; or at least similar and made by the same company. Cant confirm either rumor. Thinking it may be a sleeper. I read the reviews of Fluval, Eheim and everyone else and the reviews are all the same, basically. In reading the reviews, even the $200+ units seem to have the same number of reviews about cracking, power heads failing. etc etc. Strangely the high end units seem to have the same ratio of good/bad reviews as the cheaper models. I didnt expect that.

Sorry I tend to ramble. Sunsun. What thier story. Should I get this 370gph 4 tray sunsun for $50?
 
Additionally. I am thinking I would ditch the bioballs and ceramic cylinders that come with it. Fill a couple trays with Eheim Substrat Pro or other sintered glass material like Biohome. One tray (first in flow line) of good mechanical filter and the remaining tray filled with a chem bag or two. Charcoal or something else. Whats your alls opinion on this set up; and Recommendations for chems would be appreciated.
 
I have always been very happy with all of my sun sun products, from full filters to uv sterilizers, they get the job done at a reasonable price. If you did change the media, remove the carbon and fill the tray with mech or bio because your overloaded
 
D_Nicepumpkin said:
If you did change the media, remove the carbon and fill the tray with mech or bio because your overloaded
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I was thinking the settup would be in order: first tray mechanical coarse and fine. 2nd & 3rd tray sintered glass. Last tray chems.

Anything better than sintered glass? Why ditch charcoal? Should I skip chems and charcoal altogether and run three trays of glass? Biohome or Eheim Substrat Pro? So many questions.
 
Go with the biological media because of the high bioload, the carbon isn't totally necessary and won't help reduce ammonia nitrates or nitrites
 
I used to use cheap brands of filters like sunsun, and aqua one, but after saving up and buying fluval and ahem filters for my tanks I would never go back.

Spending the extra money is worth ti, those cheap filters are false economy.
 
Hoplo said:
I used to use cheap brands of filters like sunsun, and aqua one, but after saving up and buying fluval and ahem filters for my tanks I would never go back.

Spending the extra money is worth ti, those cheap filters are false economy.
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Haha I'm just the opposite. After using name brand canisters for most of my fish keeping "career" (30+ years), I don't see it necessary to go back to paying 4-5X more money for the name brand canisters over the "cheapo" canisters like Sunsun and Odyssea.

To the OP, here's a recent thread
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/sunsun-brand-canister-filters.646840/#post-7309404
 
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Yea my sun sun is great. It definetly is not 370 gph. But i would but it around 250 gph which will be fine. They have very lanrge media capacity so lots of room for activity
 
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