Whats your favorite type of filter?

[Xenity7]

Just wondering what everyone's opinion was...

 

[smb]

BIO-wheels rule!!!!

 

[nene]

I think bio wheels are great also but the one thing that bothers me is the noise they make when the outflow hits the water in the tank. It makes me nervous because it makes me think some of the plumbing in the house is leaking until I remember what it is. Anybody know how to quiet this?

 

[pondfreak4365]

Mine get noisier when the water level is low. I have just gotten used to the sound with aquariums in every room

 

[Alien Anna]

BIO-wheels rule!!!!

I'm sure they do - on your side of the Great Pond.

We'll just muddle along with our Eheims and Fluvals... somehow

 

[CFC]

We'll just muddle along with our Eheims and Fluvals... somehow

Nothing wrong with eheim PRO II thermos AA, IMHO they are the best commercial filters available, but if you want a really good filter then go hi tech and build your own sump filled with bio balls and fit a nitrate filter filled with deni balls.

 

[Alien Anna]

Nothing wrong with eheim PRO II thermos AA, IMHO they are the best commercial filters available, but if you want a really good filter then go hi tech and build your own sump filled with bio balls and fit a nitrate filter filled with deni balls.

Oh right, I'll just whip one up next time I've got 5 minutes...

I think maybe you've got an over-inflated opinion of my DIY abilities! For instance, what's a bioball when its at home? A beachball stuffed with compost?

 

[CFC]

A bio ball is a hi tech kind of media usually used in marine set ups but suitable for FW too, they look a little like sticklebricks and have their own carbon core, they claim to give 3 times the surface area of normal filter medias.
Nitrate filters are a complicated expensive item, originally designed (again) for the marine fish setup they can be used in FW. They work by cultivating anerobic bacteria on the deni balls which form a very close mass. Anerobic bacteria live in places which are starved of oxygen and survive by scavenging oxygen from nitrates as they pass through them turning the nitrate to harmless nitrogen which dissolves into the atmosphere (or so i understand from what ive read on them, i havnt had the money to buy one and try it out for myself yet )