Silent canisters, REALLY?!

I am pretty anal about noise on my living room tank. I have an XP3 and it may not be as quite as Ehiems (never had one so dont know) but inside my cabinent and cannot hear it when the doors are closed in normal conditions (ok maybe in the middle of the night when its dead silent you can hear it but living in a city the daytime base decibel level is much higher). I also built my hood with two 5" fans. I spent a little extra to get ultra-quiet fans. I then did some mods on them to make them even much more silent. They cannot be heard with the canopy closed. The loudest noise you can hear in the tank is actually the hissing of co2 out of a micro bubbler to tell you how quiet the whole setup is, (edit:which I have since modded and cannot hear any longer). Now the loudest noise is the gentle hum from a couple powerheads.
 
Philgo said:
I simply can't accept that if you are in a quiet room with no other noise that you can't hear your filters, it's not possible to be that silent, the job they do must create some noise.
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I have an XP3 filtering a 90 gallon, the unit cannot be heard with the cabinet door open or closed. :bowing:
 
Hey guys, We just had a breakthrough. I put my ear next to the XP3 and did hear noise :bowing:
 
Sorry guys about the previously reported sound breakthrough, it was not the canister filter, the noise was coming a powerhead :dive2:
 
Philgo said:
I simply can't accept that if you are in a quiet room with no other noise that you can't hear your filters, it's not possible to be that silent, the job they do must create some noise.
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Who said everyones rooms are silent? :) And that everyones hearing is exactly the same for that matter.

On a side note canister noise can be effected by many things, even down to the type of media and the flow rate through it. Might not be a huge difference but probably noticable out in the quite country side in the middle of a still night...
 
loaches r cool said:
Who said everyones rooms are silent? :) And that everyones hearing is exactly the same for that matter.
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My point is that a lot of people say their canister filters are silent, now silent means, no noise at all. Canister filters have an impeller which is turning and it's not possible to do this completely silently. If you live in a quite house and there is no other noise, TV etc you will hear that Bad Boy, unless you are a little hard of hearing. I'm only making this point because I don't like to misled people.

From my years of fishkeeping I have had many Eheim filters and a couple of Fluval, I'd say that the Fluval were twice as loud.

There is also one other consideration which I'd like to bring up, I live in the UK and we have a higher voltage than the States, not sure if this would make any difference.
 
I think it is extremely comical for all of those that desire quiet filters on a tank that you try to set up so it draws attention to it. I see no point in having equipment that is so quiet you need to repeatedly go check it to see if it is working. :rolleyes:
 
rbishop said:
I think it is extremely comical for all of those that desire quiet filters on a tank that you try to set up so it draws attention to it. I see no point in having equipment that is so quiet you need to repeatedly go check it to see if it is working. :rolleyes:
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i didn't buy my eheim canister because it was quiet! i bought it because it's a very good filter. the question asked in this thread was "silent canisters, really?" the people responding to this thread were merely trying to answer the question for the thread starter based on thier experiences with the filters. jeff

**if this reply seems coarse i appologize. i don't mean for it to be. :)
 
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My comment was just an observation jeff, and it struck me as funny. I have no issue with the thread.

I agree with you, buy them for how well they filter and do their assigned tasks.:cool:
 
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