canister filter reviews

[Beth777]

I'm sure I will order some here pretty soon.

Quick disconnect valves are highly recommended. Make you life easier at water change.

[ptran]

Quick disconnect valves are highly recommended. Make you life easier at water change.

[Beth777]

My hand me down eheim came without the valves. To get it going we set the filter up beside the tank and held up the tube of the intake and poured water in it until we saw bubbling in the tank from the output. I flipped the switch and she came on like a charm. I'm still not used to that room being so quiet. I'm constantly checking to see if the filters are working. LOL I have seen the valves on ebay for $13

[ptran]

yes i should have said only the first time you really need to do that

when i opened mine to remove the purigen (the new plant tank, so just used the purigen to remove the initial haze)...it took a few minutes to get normal flow back as the canister refilled. you can suck to help that process along quicker, but will get a mouthful of water. i guess in a planted tank the water will at least be very clean....

Yeah, make sure you don't accidentally swallow that water. Be careful on Ecoli bacteria.

[morpheus]

You only need to do the "sucking" at the beginning when you set up the filter. All Eheim filters now come with quick connect valves that allow you to quickly remove the filter for cleaning. After cleaning, just hook it back up, open the valves and the filter is primed and ready to go.

yes i should have said only the first time you really need to do that

when i opened mine to remove the purigen (the new plant tank, so just used the purigen to remove the initial haze)...it took a few minutes to get normal flow back as the canister refilled. you can suck to help that process along quicker, but will get a mouthful of water. i guess in a planted tank the water will at least be very clean....

[ptran]

agreed that priming was so much easier on the cascade....with the eheim you do need to manually prime (which involves sucking slightly only the out tubing until the vacuum is created.

You only need to do the "sucking" at the beginning when you set up the filter. All Eheim filters now come with quick connect valves that allow you to quickly remove the filter for cleaning. After cleaning, just hook it back up, open the valves and the filter is primed and ready to go.

[morpheus]

I'm a cascade guy love them but Eheims are good too nothing like the quick priming of the cascades a couple of pumps and it's good to go

agreed that priming was so much easier on the cascade....with the eheim you do need to manually prime (which involves sucking slightly only the out tubing until the vacuum is created.

[ptran]

Flow rate is important generally. It's rated for the tank size. But ultimately I believe it achieve the same goal: contacting time.


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[Crush]

Yeah don't ask how much I spent building her a swing set...lol
hows the flow on your fluval

[TattedUpFishGuy]

Wow that's a hell of a lemonade stand lol. As for priming the fluval kinda sucks when it comes to priming it but the eheim is great, no priming

[Crush]

Is that flow rate with media?

I assume without media but I can't find clarification on that.

i have thought about making my own but I generally go overboard on projects like that and end up spending more than if I'd just went out an bought one. Just like my daughters lemonade stand I built for her, final cost was $500 but it is nice though...lmao

[ptran]

The noise of the hobs don't bother me, I used to work on the ship channel aboard a push boat. Try sleeping on one of those things at full steam...lol
i think mostly I wanted a system that I could manipulate flow, setup intake and output how I feel is best for my tank, adjust filter media, saves on media/cart costs (I can get various filter floss from work), let's me experiment with different media, that has a high output motor so I can sorta over stuff with media. Flow rates though on a lot of canisters seem low when compared to some hobs. For instance my penguin 350 is supposed to flow 350gph (that's assuming the mfg is accurate and without filters inplace) and is suggested for my 60g but when you look up canisters suited for a 60g their flow rates are much lower. Am I missing something?

If you don't mind the noise, I think a sump is best bet to satisfy your requirements above: in-expensive, flexible in media and flow rate set up.

[ptran]

Is that flow rate with media?

[Crush]

The noise of the hobs don't bother me, I used to work on the ship channel aboard a push boat. Try sleeping on one of those things at full steam...lol
i think mostly I wanted a system that I could manipulate flow, setup intake and output how I feel is best for my tank, adjust filter media, saves on media/cart costs (I can get various filter floss from work), let's me experiment with different media, that has a high output motor so I can sorta over stuff with media. Flow rates though on a lot of canisters seem low when compared to some hobs. For instance my penguin 350 is supposed to flow 350gph (that's assuming the mfg is accurate and without filters inplace) and is suggested for my 60g but when you look up canisters suited for a 60g their flow rates are much lower. Am I missing something?

[Beth777]

I think my husband wanted to dance around the room because of how quiet it is now. LOL He's a lot more sensitive to noise than I am.

That is the beauty of canister. Love its quietness.