Sun Sun Filters
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CWO4GUNNER
USN/USCG 1974-2004 Weps
I belive the seller "Kool_goods has the best deals and has the spare parts. I know when I needed a basket becasue mine was deformed they send me one in a flash and someone else needed a part and they came through. Personally I think this intermediate size is the best price $38 and as good as any eheim in its size class 30-60 gallons at a fraction of the price.
http://cgi.ebay.com/TROPICAL-AQUARI...tem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c533ac915
http://cgi.ebay.com/TROPICAL-AQUARI...tem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c533ac915
I belive the seller "Kool_goods has the best deals and has the spare parts. I know when I needed a basket becasue mine was deformed they send me one in a flash and someone else needed a part and they came through. Personally I think this intermediate size is the best price $38 and as good as any eheim in its size class 30-60 gallons at a fraction of the price.
http://cgi.ebay.com/TROPICAL-AQUARI...tem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c533ac915
Gunner, I respect your diy ability's but how can you compare this sun sun, perfect or whatever name it will be next week to any eheim in the same category without owning an eheim?
There is no way a 38 dollar filter will have the same quality as the bigger brands ie rena, fluval, marineland, eheim. I would bank on it.
The sun sun looks decent but how long will they last?
Review from someone who has one:
http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/equipment/98858-my-review-sunsun-outside-filter-hw.html
http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/equipment/98858-my-review-sunsun-outside-filter-hw.html
These things actually look like either a ripoff of or an OEM version of the Marineland C series; the flow rates are the same, the canister shape is the same, the clamping system is the same, the media baskets are the same although the size of the inlet tube may be different.
I'm half tempted to pick one up just to compare it to the Marinelands to see if my belief about that is right.
Your belief is right, as I have a Sunsun 304B and a Marineland 360. The 360 is in use right now and the SunSun is a spare on the shelf for less than half the price. If I knew Sunsun first, I would have bought it. I fired it up and it ran like a champ and dead quiet. Sunsun is the largest manufacturer of these products in China and OEM their parts to US and European countries, who then use them in their products and stamp their name on it.
Since all simple canister filters use $20 in plastic and hoses, and a $10 water pump the size of your fist, why pay $150 or more for a filter from another company? Makes no sense to me. Are they as good as the high priced canisters? Yes. Prove me wrong.
Since all simple canister filters use $20 in plastic and hoses, and a $10 water pump the size of your fist, why pay $150 or more for a filter from another company? Makes no sense to me. Are they as good as the high priced canisters? Yes. Prove me wrong.
Actually they look quite different in the pic's to me. Same basic design but clamps and shape are different.
To me they look closer akin to the JBJ reaction Canister.
Just curious, where did you get this information from? I see a lot of people claim this but never actually back it up.
It's not unheard of I would just like to see the proof.
Yeah, some of the shapes are slightly different, but with a design that similar chances are that the same OEM makes all three filters. The differences in the Marineland are mostly cosmetic.
Computer components are the same way; one company will make a product for two or three or four different brands. Some may be visually identical, some may have some variations that a specific brand requested-different heatsinks, different capacitors and other SMTs, slight circuit layout changes to tweak an aspect of performance that they want to either market as a feature or save some money on-but they're all basically the same device, and they all came out of the same factory.
I'd bet money that that's the case here. Even the flow rate discrepancy between the filter CWO posted and the C-220 is easily explained: Marineland rates it with the media installed, the "Perfect" unit is rated with no media, and possibly a little bit of fudge factor. Again, this is done all the time with computer components.
The other option is that it's a ripoff of the JBJ and/or the Marineland. Either way, if it doesn't leak or go through pumps and it comes close to matching the Marinelands' performance, it's worth a good deal more than what it costs.
And $40 is not implausibly low for something like this, especially if it's coming directly out of China. People would be stunned if they knew what the markups on a lot of retail products are; $40 from a wholesaler for a filter that stickers for $130 isn't an unusual markup. If it were $19.95, I'd be skeptical, but $40 doesn't set off warning bells for me.