Magnum 350 Canister Filter Question

[PRTurboZX3]

I have a 55 Gallons TOPFIN with a TopFin60 Filter.. I'm adding a Magnum 350 Deluxe Filter system.

1. Should i remove the Topfin60 and only use the new Magnum 350 Deluxe

2. or should i use both?

Thanks,
PRTurboZX3
Newbie

 

[Mgamer20o0]

use both. its always a good idea to have two filters just in case one fails.

 

[PRTurboZX3]

Thanks,

I'm planing on buy the EHEIM Slush Extractor

If i get the Magnum 350 Pro, i notice it comes with a Siphon Kleen Gravel, do i still need this slush extractor??

 

[Mgamer20o0]

looks like a gravel vac. if you have one you prob dont need one.

 

[Native American]

PRTurboZX3, I've got a pair of Magnum 350's on my bigger tank, and I've never used the Siphon Kleen into the filter canister.

Instead, I've just started a siphon into a bucket and use the Siphon Kleen to clean the gravel, just like any ordinary gravel vac. An added benefit is that I do a water change at the same time. I think most people who vaccuum gravel do it this way.

The Eheim Sludge Extractor is pretty pricy for what you get. I hooked up an old Penguin 1140 powerhead to some 3/4" PVC and a hose-end barb that connects to my gravel cleaner, and a foot switch made for Christmas lights. I had to mill the inside of a 90-degree slip-to-slip 3/4" PVC elbow to get it to fit around the impeller housing of the Penguin powerhead.

The powerhead sits in the bottom of a 5gal bucket, and my down-pipe sticks up out of the bucket. It requires me to first start a siphon going from my Siphon Kleen to get it to work, but when it does, boy does it ever pull stuff out of the gravel. Once the bucket is full, I stomp on the switch to shut it off, turn off a shutoff valve I have on top of my gravel cleaner (I stuck the Siphon Kleen tube into the end of a Drs. F & S gravel cleaner, since it has a shutoff valve). I then pick it up and pop it into a spare bucket, and empty the full bucket. Stomp on the switch to get it running again, and keep vacuuming.

Yes, it's a real Rube Goldberg (or Heath Robinson for our Commonwealth friends) affair, but it works great.

v/r, N-A

 

[Anns914]

I use the one that came with my Mag 350's and I love it. I put the polishing filter in the canister hook up my hose to the intake and away I go. When I am done I switch out the polishing filter and put what I had back in. Hook up the python and drain and re fill. I have even drained with the python and cleaned the rocks with the magnum at the same time (when I am limited on time), by the time you are done with draining and filling you are done with cleanning. No hauling buckets of any sort. It is all in the directions that came with the Magnum.

I started with cleaning the rocks and doing the drain into a bucket all at the same time but I found that if you are not fast at cleaning or they are really dirty you run out of water before you are done or the suction is not good. Then you have to add water and keep cleaning and so on. With the Magnum you can take your time and do a good job the first time.

It use to take me 2 hours to clean and change the water before on a 90 gal doing it the bucket way and the water was cloudy from stirring it up.

Now I have a 130 gal and it takes less than an hour to do with the python and Magnum and the water is clear.

Good luck