What Is Better?

[Mo_loves_fish]

You Know what to do!

VOTEVOTE VOTE

 

[poopsydrew]

I think it depends on what your keeping, but I have a ton of breeding tanks so I just make sponge filters. Cheap and effective.

Drew

 

[Tolak]

I think it depends on what your keeping, but I have a ton of breeding tanks so I just make sponge filters. Cheap and effective.

Drew

These & box filters run my fishroom. Freestanding tanks have a combo of canisters & hob filters. You can't go wrong with an Eheim canister set up for bio filtration, and an Aquaclear set up for mechanical filtration.

 

[adamgreen240]

tetratec canister range gets my vote

 

[SJ2K]

I voted for ones I dont even have just because they've been bigged up so much I fail to believe there not great

 

[Kevstir]

iv went for canister and ehiem.

I have an ehiem 2026 and since i got it 12 months ago its been faultless, my only gripe i have is that the inlet and outlet is pretty basic for the money, the tetra range looks much better in that department..

Kev

 

[arvlyn]

Marineland makes Penguin filters.

I've never used a canister filter - yet - but I've been extremely happy with my Marineland Penguin 330 HOB filters for over 7 years now.

 

[KraKen]

I voted for other in both cases. DIY sumps are the best filters you can get.

 

[dthoffsett]

I also agree it depends on the tank.

For my 75gal mbuna I have a Fluval 404 (canister) and an Aquaclear 70 (HOB).

On my 29gal I have a Fluval 204 (canister); and on my 10 gal divided betta tank I have an under-gravel filter, normally not a good choice, but since bettas don't like much surface movement, and with only 2 fish there is very little waste, I've found it works well. I also have a small HOB on that tank, but it's only to keep a cycled filter handy for my QT tank.

I know most experienced keepers hate Fluvals, however, I've never had a problem with my two (2 years strong), and I'd rather not fork out the extra money for an eheim.

 

[Inchworm]

I went back to using box filters. The air pumps I run them with run sponge filters, in my fry tanks, just as well.

I used to use AquaClear HOBs, (good filtration; no problem there) but gave up after I burned out one too many.

 

[shroob]

Other: Wet/dry

Canister: Ehiem, had one for nearly 10 years, no complaints whatsoever

 

[funkyhoney]

I also agree it depends on the tank.

For my 75gal mbuna I have a Fluval 404 (canister) and an Aquaclear 70 (HOB).

On my 29gal I have a Fluval 204 (canister); and on my 10 gal divided betta tank I have an under-gravel filter, normally not a good choice, but since bettas don't like much surface movement, and with only 2 fish there is very little waste, I've found it works well. I also have a small HOB on that tank, but it's only to keep a cycled filter handy for my QT tank.

I know most experienced keepers hate Fluvals, however, I've never had a problem with my two (2 years strong), and I'd rather not fork out the extra money for an eheim.

I think there is a slight irony in the fact that most experienced fish keepers praise Aquaclear, yet hate Fluval even though they are both produced by Hagen. Much love for Hagen.

I voted canister and Fluval, although I also like Aquaclear and Eheim; out of those others brands I have little experience with any of them, most stock in Oz seems to be dominated by other brands than most of you guys seem to get. (bar Hagen, Eheim and AO)

 

[TNW]

Cannister! You can fit a hell of a lot more filter media in there, it looks like it does the business, and it doesn't blemish your tank with an ugly black box of fish-sucking death! The only downside is having to suck the tubes to get the damn thing working... >_>

 

[shroob]

I think that wet/dry filters are the best, granted there are times where they may not be practical ie. smaller tanks. But for anything over 250 litres there the way to go. Hugely customisable, more media than you can shake a stick at not to mention a fraction of the price of other filters.

 

[andywg]

Other on both.

I love sumps and tend to use wet/dry (though I don't tend to wet/dry my marine sumps). Best filtration I would like to do would be an algae turf scrubber. Obviously, neither of these are particularly useful when doing planted tanks.

As to best brand, I like Tunze. They do everything I want and do it at a low wattage