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(More customer reviews)You will love this unit until it's time to change the filter media, and then you will hate it with a passion.
This filter performs very well and is also remarkably quiet compared to other designs that filter an equivalent amount of water. However, the design is flawed by a number of issues that may cost you several gallons of spilled water per filter change. In addition, you should be aware that filter changes require the replacement of not one but two physical media -a black coarse-grained physical filter in the first stage and a white fine-grained water polishing filter in the last stage - and the cost can add up.
1. The four stages are supposed to fit neatly one on top of the other, with vertical pipe sections in one corner designed to interlock and carry unfiltered water down to the first stage. However, the third stage contains many small plastic balls designed to create a large surface area for biological filtration - and they are small enough to fit into this pipe and prevent the fourth stage fitting on top. It really, really does not help that these balls are made of polypropylene, which floats.
2. Moving, opening and closing the unit is a clumsy and heavy process, because it remains full of water at all times, until spilt, which is all too easy.
3. There is very little tolerance in the overall filter column height, which means that one rubber gasket slightly out of alignment, or one bio-ball out of place, is sufficient to prevent the unit from sealing properly when assembled. The only guaranteed way to get the thing put back together is to leave out the top-most piece of the filter column assembly - the guard intended to hold the water-polishing medium in place.
4. A locking lever at the top of the unit isolates the hoses that carry water to and from the aquarium. This means that you can remove the filter's top section without the hoses siphoning all the water out of your aquarium... unless you are backtracking to trouble-shoot problem #3 above, and forget to re-lock it. This is the most likely cause of large spillages.
5. There is a small but non-zero risk that one of the tubes running up to your aquarium may come unseated from the filter unit. If this happens overnight, as it did to my friend, you will wake up to find just a couple of inches of water left in your tank, depending on the arrangement of your filter intake.
If you can live with these problems - and to be fair, there are workarounds for every one - this is a fine filter.
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Product Description:
Virtually No Bypass
Certified flow rate of 360GPH
Perfect for all aquariums up to 100 gallons
Uses Rite Size "T" floss and foam
The revolutionary design of the new Marineland Multi-Stage C-Series Canister Filter forces water to pass through the filter media trays and not around them. With virtually no bypass and a three-stage filtration process, only sparkling-clean water can recirculate into you tank - regardless of size or type of aquarium.
The key to this process is our special internal design and three-stage approach that passes the water through a series of specialized filter media. Its a design that delivers the best available technology in mechanical, chemical and biological filtration and its a design that is unmatched for capturing particulates.
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