Caliban's Dirted 46 Bowfront
Congrats on the new water toy, err, equipment. Keep up posted on its performance and ease of use.
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Thanks. Set it all up last night. Finished about 11pm then went bed. Probably shouldn't have done but The floor isn't flooded this morning so the leak test has passed ?
Initial thoughts upon opening were that it is bigger than I thought. Doesn't look as quality as the fluval but the media capacity is really impressive (compared to fluval 205).
There's 4 really easy locking clips that lock the pump head to the canister and each media tray has its own old away handle.
The hose inlet is detachable and prevents leaking from the water left in the hoses similar to the fluval whereas the ehiem Classic didn't have this function.
I've never primed a canister filter so easily. There's a huge start button that I depressed a couple of times and the canister and hoses filled instantly.
I used the fluval spraybar as the jbl supplied one was shorter. You get 3 trays of course media and some sintered glass bio balls. Lots of angle pieces, adaptors and right angle connectors. I feared it may come with a euro mains plug and it did. Luckily I had a few adaptors knocking about.
It just squeezes in to my cabinet but looks right at home. Probably would be no room for further modifications such as co2 reactors in the juwel vision 180 cabinet.
Flow is immense but the filter is no quieter nor louder than the fluval although the fluval is moving less water. For silence in my opinion the ehiem Classic wins here but the JBL is by no means loud.
At the moment I think the Amano's may be sulking or maybe not I can't really tell. I can see them more now so I don't know if that's because they are freaking out or they appreciate the flow. Fish don't seem bothered.
The glosso is struggling to hold on but only the bits I have let get up to a few inches. The smaller plantlet's are doing fine. This may change after a trim tonight as the floating limno and ludwigia will no longer be dampening the outflow from the spraybar.
Will post some pics later. So far, very impressed.
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