Thoughts On This Off-Brand Filter

I got the 2 Odysseas set up today. I REALLY like them a lot. 1 of them went on a 75 g with an 8" Goldfish and 4 Dojo Loaches-they're having a blast in the flow. The other went on a 100 g RedEared Slider turtle tank replacing a 320 gph Catalina canister (Eheim knockoff). They move a lot more water than I was expecting. The hoses are huge-1" ID but each is only 4' long. If needed I suppose you could always get hose at the hardware store. It fit fine on the 4' and the 5' long tanks I put them on. It says 500 gph but the outlet flow looks as strong as my FX5 canisters. You could easily slice a section of one or both of the sponges out and put media stones in there. Or even take 1 of the sponges completely out and put net-bagged media in there. Doing the latter would increase the flow even more.
I've got my FX5's on Oscar tanks. My precious Oscars :-) If not for that I might've tried the timer idea. It sounds like a good idea but I really need strong filtering 24/7 with the Oscars. I'm planning on buying 2 more of these Odyssea canisters just to have because I like them so well. And for $58 total you can't hardly go wrong.
 
Do they have a quick disconnect system in place?
If you don't mind, the next one you get could you snap a few pic's of the inside of the can and setup?
 
ksane said:
I've got my FX5's on Oscar tanks. My precious Oscars :-) If not for that I might've tried the timer idea. It sounds like a good idea but I really need strong filtering 24/7 with the Oscars. I'm planning on buying 2 more of these Odyssea canisters just to have because I like them so well. And for $58 total you can't hardly go wrong.
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The only reason I diden't buy one is because the seller verified that the Odyssea canister only filters from top to bottom not around all the sides like the FX5, so its a good buy and reminiscent of the FX5 but is not a circumference filter. I was thinking one could shave down the circumference of the sponges to allow room for water to be filtered all around the sponges greatly increasing its filtering performance and capacity, but since its not by design id be buying a new filter just to chop and change its design. Sooner or later they clone a circumference filter its just a matter of time.
 
Wow! I cannot believe that price. I just bought 2 of them... I don't even know where I'll use them yet but they'll be good as an emergency back up if nothing else. Yesterday, I thought we'd cracked one of our Rena XP3's (we hadn't in fact).
 
I really like this flow test shown in the link below, which shows at the end of the video the outflow without the spray-bar connected which is very deceiving since allot of people confuse pressure velocity with volume flow. Without the spray-bar the out flow is typical of my similar test at my sink using the Sunsun. The big difference here is that I was getting this same type of flow out of the Sunsun from the floor pumping to a total height distance 50" above the floor past the sink to a 5 gallon water bottle, or a total head pressure height of 4 feet. In the video below this Odessa 500 is pumping water from above the sink or at 0 to negative head pressure, a big advantage with not so dramatic results when you see the flow without the spray-bar giving the impression of high GPM.

The only way to give a true assessment is with a realistic head pressure test at 4 feet into a measured 5 gallon container using a stopwatch as I did on my Sunsun filter assessment. Id guess here that the outflow is between 180 to a maximum of 220 GPH at the very most, and that at 0 head pressure. No telling what it would actually be at 4 feet in a real measured test maybe 150-180 GPH tops.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceWmRfIv6yE&feature=related
 
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m1ste2tea said:
dont forget... thats a 1" internal diameter hose... I have looked into sunsun and have not seen them with such large hoses...
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I was waiting for someone to say that, you make very good point and it is a great observation! Now if we can just get someone who has one to do a stopwatch test into a measure container at 4 feet head pressure, it would help everyone on the fence make up there mind about buying one, including me.;)
 
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