caitlynnanne9189
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adadkins1 said:Yeah, you can save a lot of room with a HOB compared to an internal.
I know! Especially with a 3 gallon! It's like half my tank! Lol
adadkins1 said:Yeah, you can save a lot of room with a HOB compared to an internal.
adadkins1 said:Yeah, that is the problem I have with my heater in a 2.5 hex. Darn thing takes up too much room! I have nothing but good things to say about that filter though. It is just a superb filter and I've never had a single problem with it.
caitlynnanne9189 said:Yay! Aquaclear 70 arrived today! Going to hook it up and run it along side the terra whisper to get it seeded with bb. I'm still trying to cycle is adding the new filter now going to mess this up?
rreekers said:have you considered just running both of them at the same time forever?
meegosh said:I'd just run them both for a couple weeks or a month and then just go with the AC70. You don't want your tank to be like mine when I first started. I had two 30g rated power heads and a 30g rated HOB filter on a 10g tank. It was like a dishwasher.
When I first got back into the fish keeping hobby (after almost 35 years without an aquarium) I only knew of one local pet store: PetSmart. They sell only the Aqua-Clear HOB filters and the Fluval canister filters. Since I am limited in space under and around my tank I went with the AQ's. I have since found a LFS who sells the Fluval HOB but until (or if) my AQ's poop out I don't plan on replacing them since they are so similar. If I had more space for a larger aquarium I would use a Fluval canister filter.Both Fluval and Aquaclear are manufactured by Hagen. I like them both equally. IMO the Fluval HOB filters just have a little bit better features like the extra biological filtration. They both seem to give you your money's worth.
Calfishguy, you have a common misconception about Activated Carbon and its use....Though this post I'm refering to is not of current date it is important to know and understand (1) Activated carbon will remove smells from water, but will not remove chlorine, or chloramines for the water column...Never will remove them.Remember that carbon removes chlorine, chloramine, and gases that make your water smell bad.
Calfishguy, you have a common misconception about Activated Carbon and its use....Though this post I'm refering to is not of current date it is important to know and understand (1) Activated carbon will remove smells from water, but will not remove chlorine, or chloramines for the water column...Never will remove them.
(2) Activated carbon will not break the Chlorine Ammonia bond that makes up the compound of Chloramines. Never breaks that bond.
Prime the product will break the bond and 100% remove chlorine, and convert active ammonia into a safe form but still removeable by bacteria in a cycled tank... None of what I say is in my opinion and all is supported by numerous site on the internet, but don't believe you can find even one site to support this misconseption that Activated Carbon removes chlorine or ammonia. PP
After a two second google search I found a link that supports what I said about activated carbon. it does remove chlorine from water.
http://www.theaquariumwiki.com/Activated_Carbon
Isn't that how water filters like Brita and Pur work? They remove chlorine from tap water which improves its taste.