Hmm thanks 🙂
I have a 180 lt tank and already have two 2217 filters on it (well ones a 2317).
I'm replacing my Pro3 which I've given up on after numerous problems, I was running with just the pro 3, but since deciding to get rid of it, have purchased two 2217 filters to replace it and give me a little filter boost (2217 has a lower flow rate than the pro3, but two of them will give me a higher rate).
Pro3 has 16/22 for both input and output, 2217 has 16/22 input and 12/16 output (I know I've said all this before, just repeating it incase someone else reads thread in the future and isnt aware)
I've already ordered 12mm pipe to replace my 16mm spraybar (did have two 16mm joined together and wan't happy wth the flow rate anyway, was about to block up some holes).
Have just read through that EF2 thread, and watched your excellent vids (makes my setup look really amaturist 🙂 with a 5 gang power strip hung on the wall).
The cabinet for my tank is not that big. Left hand and centre both completely taken up by my two filters, the right one having all my other fish related stuff (ei chemicals, fish food, scisors, net etc) and I've only just pursuaded my loverly wife to let me have my fire extinguisher sitting to the side of it.
I'm not totally sure I would have room for the filter booster.
Anyway, they are really cheap, so I might see what I can do. In the thread, Amritc1 has a couple of different diagrams and you recomend a third option, but in all 3 they are using a seperate pump rather than the external filter.
You recomend having the pump, then the difuser, then the filter booster. And this would work totally fine with an additional pump.
However, it wouldnt work if I had: my Eheim filter >>> Up Atomiser >>> Ef2 Filter booster, , as I would be back to my original problem where on the 2217, while the input is 16/22, the output is only 12/16. And if I buy a pump too, I'm effectively putting a 3rd filter onto my 180lt tank.
I'm not saying I wont go this route, just waying up the pros and cons and whether I would be better off just getting a 12mm atomiser.
There's the cost of the pump to take into account, I don't want it in my tank (and as I've said, am very short of cupboard room) , plus I don't want something noisy. The eheim inline pumps will mean this would cost me more than my 2217 cost me (second hand) and the cheaper ones like the All Pond Solutions ones, all say they are fully submersible but don't say whether they can be used externally.
Nothing is easy 🙂
