DaveWatkin
Member
Looking for your recommendations, never used a HOB before so not sure what to expect.
Tank sits next to my desk and close to the bedrooms so nothing too noisy and preferably nothing that trickles/babbles.
Currently I have a small(ish) sponge filter installed which is fine but takes up a lot of real-estate in the tank and has no method for surface agitation (can't raise as not fixed to the glass, if I fix to the glass it vibrates massively). I also get a lot of surface scum build up so have a Eheim skim 350 installed which I switch on for 10 minutes every time I see the surface stop rippling (every couple of days or so). Skimmer is too powerful to run all the time in such a small tank.
So I figure after looking around a HOB might fix all my issues of real-estate, flow, surface agitation and hopefully noise...
Am I correct and what do you recommend?
Tank sits next to my desk and close to the bedrooms so nothing too noisy and preferably nothing that trickles/babbles.
Currently I have a small(ish) sponge filter installed which is fine but takes up a lot of real-estate in the tank and has no method for surface agitation (can't raise as not fixed to the glass, if I fix to the glass it vibrates massively). I also get a lot of surface scum build up so have a Eheim skim 350 installed which I switch on for 10 minutes every time I see the surface stop rippling (every couple of days or so). Skimmer is too powerful to run all the time in such a small tank.
So I figure after looking around a HOB might fix all my issues of real-estate, flow, surface agitation and hopefully noise...
Am I correct and what do you recommend?