candymancan
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Ok I have 3 fish tanks in my bedroom... A 44g pentagon, 27g hex and a 10g bowfront... Issue is... filter noise... my 2.6g Top fin tanks I got for my mom came with top fin internal 10g filters... they are the quietest filters I have ever seen... So naturally I got a 20g version for my bowfront.. absolute silence.. So to replace my aging 15 year old HOB which is fairly quiet actually has no impeller noise.. just a little motor noise but still too loud for a bedroom.. To replace it I got a Top Fin Internal 40... SUUPER quiet.. but the 27g hex isn't very big and the filter does take room up and is kinda well ugly to look at.. Another good thing about this filter is I don't need airstones anymore or powerheads as it acts like a power head and I can make a lot of surface agitation with the spray bar.. Thus cutting noise down even more....
I got one of the 40's for my pentagon as well... My room is now Litterally dead silent.. I mean you cant hear anything until you put your ear on the glass of the tank... They filter pretty well and have a lot of bio media.. But for my 44g I have discus in it and 1 of these filters isn't enough to completely remove ammonia im always at .25ppm.. I put the 2nd 40g internal from my 27g hex in there and the ammonia went away... However obviously 2 internals in the tank well takes up a lot of space and they look kinda ugly... But again soo quiet..
So I did a lot research asked around and people suggested I get fluval filters.. I got the Fluval C3.. I really like the concept of this filter.. but man its noisy.. impeller crackles.. and even if it wasn't I can hear the motor running, that and the waterslide exit is too high I have to fill my tank to the very brim where my glass lid is touching the water in order to keep the trickling noise away... stupid design... let me tell you its louder then my 15 year old HOB (which is the same size HOB filter) just a typical 1 filter pad slide in type HOB.. So I mean why spend $50 on this fluval if my 15 year old filter is quieter lol..
Clearly fluval sucks.. So im going to return this thing.. and no im not lubing it with vasoline I shouldn't have to do that to a new filter... Sorry for the long thread but I wanted to get as much info as I could to why I want SILENCE.. I have a marineland penguin 350 in my 55g its noisy but doesn't bother me as its in the living room area so I never hear it unless im standing there watching the tank.. I have a Aqueon 20 in 5.5g its fairly quiet but deff not enough media.. but due to it being quiet im debating on trying the 55g version.
So yea honestly.. what filters are quiet... and have good media... Right now running these internals they are far far superior noise wise to HOBS that I have tried.. and they a lot of room for BIO Media, they have adjustable flow.. spray bar.. ect ect.. In fact this internal 40 room wise.. has a lot more Bio Media then this fluval C3 has.. The dripper for the C3 where you put those rocks in... I mean can only fit like 2 table spoons of those rocks lol the filter pad.. is extremely thin.. The chamber where you put the carbon bag is a pretty decent size but still.. The internal has a lot more surface area for filter pads.. and it has a large chamber where I can put an entire small 12 OZ glass of bio media rocks inside...... .. Am I stuck with these internal filters ? Or is there something better that's as quiet but doesn't go inside the tank?
I got one of the 40's for my pentagon as well... My room is now Litterally dead silent.. I mean you cant hear anything until you put your ear on the glass of the tank... They filter pretty well and have a lot of bio media.. But for my 44g I have discus in it and 1 of these filters isn't enough to completely remove ammonia im always at .25ppm.. I put the 2nd 40g internal from my 27g hex in there and the ammonia went away... However obviously 2 internals in the tank well takes up a lot of space and they look kinda ugly... But again soo quiet..
So I did a lot research asked around and people suggested I get fluval filters.. I got the Fluval C3.. I really like the concept of this filter.. but man its noisy.. impeller crackles.. and even if it wasn't I can hear the motor running, that and the waterslide exit is too high I have to fill my tank to the very brim where my glass lid is touching the water in order to keep the trickling noise away... stupid design... let me tell you its louder then my 15 year old HOB (which is the same size HOB filter) just a typical 1 filter pad slide in type HOB.. So I mean why spend $50 on this fluval if my 15 year old filter is quieter lol..
Clearly fluval sucks.. So im going to return this thing.. and no im not lubing it with vasoline I shouldn't have to do that to a new filter... Sorry for the long thread but I wanted to get as much info as I could to why I want SILENCE.. I have a marineland penguin 350 in my 55g its noisy but doesn't bother me as its in the living room area so I never hear it unless im standing there watching the tank.. I have a Aqueon 20 in 5.5g its fairly quiet but deff not enough media.. but due to it being quiet im debating on trying the 55g version.
So yea honestly.. what filters are quiet... and have good media... Right now running these internals they are far far superior noise wise to HOBS that I have tried.. and they a lot of room for BIO Media, they have adjustable flow.. spray bar.. ect ect.. In fact this internal 40 room wise.. has a lot more Bio Media then this fluval C3 has.. The dripper for the C3 where you put those rocks in... I mean can only fit like 2 table spoons of those rocks lol the filter pad.. is extremely thin.. The chamber where you put the carbon bag is a pretty decent size but still.. The internal has a lot more surface area for filter pads.. and it has a large chamber where I can put an entire small 12 OZ glass of bio media rocks inside...... .. Am I stuck with these internal filters ? Or is there something better that's as quiet but doesn't go inside the tank?
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