What Brand Of Canister Filter Do You Feel Is The Best Overall?

[kj23502]

Elaborate if you would like. Thanks to everyone that answers!!

 

[kj23502]

anyone else?

 

[shroob]

Eheim is meant to be very good (german efficiency for you), I've got a ProII that I've had for well over 6 years and have not had a single problem or noticed any degridation of any kind.

For cost though tetratec are very cheap for the preformance, some places you can get the top model for like £70 with all media/hoses which is very good value for money, though I'm not sure which brand is best on running cost.

 

[kj23502]

anyone else? there's 1000's of members...more opinions plz to help all of us who are not too experienced w/canisters

 

[Liam]

I and perhaps many others would only have one or two brands of filter so couldnt answer the question, I have always stuck with Ehiems Pro2 and have no complaints about them, have one that is eight years old and still going strong.

 

[confusion]

I've found the rena xp filters to be quite cost effective and reliable. I have 3 XP2s, 2 XP3's and an XP4. I pretty much took the approach of "pick one and stick with it". I have found that to be good - it allows me to easily change filters without having to move hoses, etc. I suspect you will get a similar advantage if you go with any one of those filter lines.

When I first started buying them, they were pretty cheap, but lately they are not considerably cheaper than the others.