What Does An External Filter Need?

[Jonty]

Looking to buy an external filter on ebay for my 60l - it have 440lph turnover, is that good?

This is what it comes with:

I am selling my EHEIM 2213 External Filter with the following accessories;

1x Spray Bar

1x curved plastic piece

1x Strainer and outlet piece

4 x Double disconnect valves

1x Suction Clip

50+ cm of spare Ehiem hose

Filter contains media basket too.

8 Watts

Capacity; 440 litres per hour


Is that all I need to get it started?

Thanks, Jonty

 

[OldMan47]

A typical external, what we call a canister in the US, is composed of the canister itself, a basket or even multiple baskets to hold media, an inlet and return hose, some sort of rigid inlet tube and fittings to bring the inlet water to the hose, some sort of return fixture to take the water from the return hose back to the aquarium, a way to shut off the filter flow so that the filter can be cleaned and finally the filter media that do the actual filtering. I have never been willing to spend the money on an Eheim so I have no idea what they consider standard equipment on a filter.

A quick read of your list makes me wonder where all of the hose is that you will need to reach from the tank to the filter and back again. I would expect to need at least a meter and a half of hose to make up those two pieces, since the filter sits in the stand under the aquarium. Another thing not listed is media of any sort. Is there a picture of what is included that we can see and try to determine what else might be missing?