Mark Hewitt
Aquarium Advice FINatic
What are the pros and cons of each? I expect external is better for larger tanks?
I currently have a 17 gallon tank with an internal filter (Interpet PF2) would having external make any difference apart from not being able to see it in the tank.
Noise is a big issue for me since the tank is in my quite small front room the internal filter I have claims to be 'almost silent' but in practice it's quite noisy!
Would an external filter likely be more or less noisy? Especially considering it'll likely be shut away inside a cupboard!
One reason I ask is that I've been looking at
http://www.aqadvisor.com/
And it says that I'm likely to run out of filter capacity before I run out of physical tank space, so putting a more powerful filter on might help things, but there's no room for a bigger internal filter.
I currently have a 17 gallon tank with an internal filter (Interpet PF2) would having external make any difference apart from not being able to see it in the tank.
Noise is a big issue for me since the tank is in my quite small front room the internal filter I have claims to be 'almost silent' but in practice it's quite noisy!
Would an external filter likely be more or less noisy? Especially considering it'll likely be shut away inside a cupboard!
One reason I ask is that I've been looking at
http://www.aqadvisor.com/
And it says that I'm likely to run out of filter capacity before I run out of physical tank space, so putting a more powerful filter on might help things, but there's no room for a bigger internal filter.