Wow! Minikaskade is expensive.

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I just got a call from Hydro Logix, the only supplier of Minikaskade that I know of, that will ship to Canada. They gave me the prices of this product and I was shocked how much it would come out to be, in order to fill two canister filters. The cost is $13 US per 100 litre box and $22 US per 200 litre box. I had them figure out how many boxes I would need to fill 10 litres of space using cylindrically shaped canisters, and they came back with a figure of approximately sixteen 100 litre size boxes! That works out to $208 US dollars for bioballs!! Plus whatever shipping would be. Wow! That is alot of money for bioballs.

RTR, I sure hope these things do last forever, at that much they better :p .

RTR, how many years have you used these bioballs for?
Have you seen any sign of degradation at all on the ones you used initially?
HMM... I figure that if these bioballs last me 20 years that it would cost me approximately $18 canadian a year.
Anyway at least this much Minikaskade is rated to filter 425 gallons of water. I could use the same amount when I get that 300 gallon tank some time in the future :D .
 
I know....

That is why I just ended up going with Rena's Bio Stars (or something like that) for my XP1. I had read RTR's endorsement with interest last fall, but decided that they were too pricey for my pocketbook...

Val
 
I just paid for them a few minutes ago. Shipping ended up costing $18.55 US, so my total is $231.55 US, WOW!:eek: I consider it an investment, at least that is what I am telling myself to make me feel better :D . I am going to use these bioballs on a tank that will house expensive high grade fancy goldfish.
 
Isn't that something like $400.00 Cdn? :eek: :eek:

I read on one of these threads that any small pieces of plastic with lots of surface area like lego, army men etc. would do. Are these bio-balls that much better?
 
Damn! I forgot about GST, PST and customs, I sure hope customs does not charge me much. GRRR! I hate custom charges. From my understanding these bioballs are excellent, very high surface area, nearly self cleaning and last nearly forever.I just hope they are worth this much. Yes, with GST and likely custom charges it would come out to be about $400 canadian. Wow! $400 bucks! :eek: :eek: What was I thinking??? Oh well.

RTR, please tell me they are this good.
 
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Yes, they are that good, and I'm still using the first ones I ever bought. I don't remember when Jon B shut down the import business, that is when I bought the mass of them (nicely discounted), but I had already decided they were the best for my use.

But I do think you went a bit overboard on the volumes. I did tell you that my canisters are not full. The 1600 liters is >422 gallons of biofilter. I'd use that much for a tank of, or for tanks aggregating, >316 US gallons. I've forgotten your tank size, but you now have almost as much as I do total.

Hey, my son considers the Minikaskade and the Eheims part of his inheritance.
 
Ahh, the inheritance....

Several years back, my brother and I sat down and talked about what we'd do when our parents passed on, and whether we'd fight over the estate. Basically, it was going to come down to two things. We'd flip a coin and the winner would get his choice of Dad's speakers that he built back in the late 50s or his collection of Pogo comic books. My folks are worth $3-4 million and it comes down to Pogos and speakers...

Val
 
Okay, RTR I have a question concerning the volume of Eheim classic canister filters. Does the media volume that they state on the box refer to the space between the plastic strainer type part that is used on the bottom and top of the media compartment, or does it refer to the entire compartment?
 
That I have not checked - to me it should refer to the volume between the support frames top and bottom, but to them who knows? Likely akin to the industry standard of measuring filter output brand new, with zero media and zero head - meaning it is a non-real world figure. Eheim does expand a bit on that, but not with emphasis.

Personally I would suspect it is the entire chamber - they are likely to consider the presure/flow equalization and distribution space as "media volume", but that is pure guess.
 
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