Power filter vs. Canister Filter
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i find my eheim canisters to be over-rated and a pain to work with. my whisper 60 power filter does a very good job compared to the canisters.
echoofformless
Peat Advocate & Defender Of Snails
Canisters do have a drawback - they can become nitrate factories if not maintained from time to time. This is great for a planted tank as it's free fertilizer. But in non-planted tanks it can cause issues for those who are too lazy to clean them out once in a while.
However they do filter a lot better than a HOB of comparable flow rate. And they offer you the capability of going extremely long periods of time without having to replace media. (If you ever replace media - I have only ever replaced the chemical media on the rare occasions that I need it. All of my sponges and substrates are completely original in every unit I run.) So the cost effective option over time is canister.
HOB are convenient and easy to use. Plus less expensive initially.
One thing though - the Marineland C series has been reported as having known leak issues as of late. And being as though this is based on only a small handful of reviews (it's a relatively new product) I would take heed of this as a warning. A product this new should not have a noticeable number of issues like that. For example if you have ever read reports of leaks from Eheim classics or Renas, those are appearing among hundreds of other reviews from several years that do not contain such complaints. But when you see many reports of leakage among only like thirty to forty reviews gleaned from just the last year, it indicates a real and recurring issue.
And it's too bad as when properly working, these are fast becoming known as a new standard of excellence in canister filters.
However they do filter a lot better than a HOB of comparable flow rate. And they offer you the capability of going extremely long periods of time without having to replace media. (If you ever replace media - I have only ever replaced the chemical media on the rare occasions that I need it. All of my sponges and substrates are completely original in every unit I run.) So the cost effective option over time is canister.
HOB are convenient and easy to use. Plus less expensive initially.
One thing though - the Marineland C series has been reported as having known leak issues as of late. And being as though this is based on only a small handful of reviews (it's a relatively new product) I would take heed of this as a warning. A product this new should not have a noticeable number of issues like that. For example if you have ever read reports of leaks from Eheim classics or Renas, those are appearing among hundreds of other reviews from several years that do not contain such complaints. But when you see many reports of leakage among only like thirty to forty reviews gleaned from just the last year, it indicates a real and recurring issue.
And it's too bad as when properly working, these are fast becoming known as a new standard of excellence in canister filters.
