Hey guys. I've been running a marineland emperor biowheel filter on my 75 gallon tank recently along side a fluval u4, but I've noticed my bio wheel constantly slows itself to a putter, nearly every 3 days. the bio wheels on my 37 gallon and 10 gallon never do this, just the emperor. It's getting really annoying to tear it apart to trouble shoot (only to find absolutely nothing is wrong with it to my knowing) whenever I set it back up and plug it back in, it seems to have a decent flow rate again, though oddly enough not nearly as much as the smaller one on my 37 gallon tank.
I'm thinking of trashing it and just cutting up the wheels to keep the bacteria, and getting a new system running.
The ones I've been looking are the fluval c series filters and the hagen aqua clear filters, though I know nothing about either of them, they seem like they've got pretty good biological filtration to them once established. And I'm getting rather sick of buying marinelands right fit filterpads or whatever to have to cut them open with a box cutter to get all the crappy carbon out of them.
these are the only other two filters I know of (aside from petsmarts crappy line of filters which have no real way to preserve beneficial bacteria and those aqueon ones which seem pretty bad in general) and I'm kinda wanting to see what else is out there for me.
On another note, I'm also very interested in making use of seachem purigen instead of carbon, so I'd like a filter with a nice place to store the purigen packs.
Are there any other filters out there aside from the ones mentioned? Do you guys have any views on the fluval and hagen filters?
P.S. I'm not interested in another internal or a canister filter. I'm happy with just getting another hang on back, they're cheap and pretty efficient, at that.
I'm thinking of trashing it and just cutting up the wheels to keep the bacteria, and getting a new system running.
The ones I've been looking are the fluval c series filters and the hagen aqua clear filters, though I know nothing about either of them, they seem like they've got pretty good biological filtration to them once established. And I'm getting rather sick of buying marinelands right fit filterpads or whatever to have to cut them open with a box cutter to get all the crappy carbon out of them.
these are the only other two filters I know of (aside from petsmarts crappy line of filters which have no real way to preserve beneficial bacteria and those aqueon ones which seem pretty bad in general) and I'm kinda wanting to see what else is out there for me.
On another note, I'm also very interested in making use of seachem purigen instead of carbon, so I'd like a filter with a nice place to store the purigen packs.
Are there any other filters out there aside from the ones mentioned? Do you guys have any views on the fluval and hagen filters?
P.S. I'm not interested in another internal or a canister filter. I'm happy with just getting another hang on back, they're cheap and pretty efficient, at that.
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