Aqua One Or Fluval

[gary3306]

I have a bit of a dilemma and I'm hoping the experience on here can sort it out for me I have taken delivery of my new tank and stand. It came with an Aqua One Aquis 1000 external power filter. Thing is, a friend of mine had a Fluval 205 power filter for sale, never been out the box, so I got it. My question is; which is the better pump. I have to say, looking at them, that the Fluval seems superior in fittings and I like the fact that you can disconnect the hoses for cleaning and when you reconnect, there is no priming to do because there is a built in vacuum lock in the connections. So, which filter do I stick with and which one goes on ebay Thanks in advance
Gary

EDIT: I should add that my tank is 180 litres

 

[rabbut]

I'd use both, you can't overfilter and it's good to have redundant systems on a tank, then if one fails, you have a back-up, thus you don't loose everything

If you had to choose, I couldn't tell you which to keep, as I have no experience with the Aqua One Extrunals. Fluvals are reliable in my experience, but they are stubborn to prime, have channeling issues if you don't use ceramics to break the flow. Some on here have had issues with leaking just out of warrenty IMO there is nothing wrong with them but a lot of mambers on here have found them to be absolute lemmons.

to TFF BTW

Rabbut

 

[Anguilla82]

totally agree with rabbut, i'd just use both filters if you can.
for example i have a 400 litre tank and have an eheim rated for a 400 litre tank and a fluval fx5 rated for tanks up to 1500 litres. total = 1900 litres.
well over filtered but it is better this way than having a filter that is only rated for the size of tank you are using.
as for which is beter i've no experience of the aqua 1 but have had several fluval externals over the last 5 years and have never had a problem.