how to use a canister filter on a tank on the floor?

[allaboutfish]

i have my 55 temporarily on the floor and i need to hook up my cascade 700 to it but i cant figure out how to cut the tube things so that it will work. has anybody used a canister with a tank on the floor?

 

[allaboutfish]

i guess ill just use the canister on a different tank while i wait.

 

[AquaticAustin]

So broxten is just a troll. He just said he has 400 dogs and thay crayfish are poisonous to fish lol

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[Narwhal72]

You probably can't run the canister on the floor as there is not enough height difference between the top of the tank and the top of the canister for a siphon to start.

Andy

 

[mellowvision]

actually, I run 2 tanks in the same fashion, with the canister on the table next to the tank. I use Eheim cans, 2215 and 2217, and they will work this way. It is harder to get them primed, and you have to shut in and out flow valves before performing waterchanges to avoid lowering the water level in the canister. For priming, I usually have an extra eheim hose, with the correct disconnect end on one end, so I can attach it to the return hose on the filter, and start the siphon into a bucket. Then I reattach the outflow to the tank and open the valve back up.