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My HD PVR · Post by **My HD PVR** » Thu May 19, 2011 3:51 pm

My filter is kinda crappy... Its a bio wheel penguin 200, and i wanna upgrade... It can be a good HOB filter or canister, i would like it to be relitivly cheap

xrayjeeper83 · Post by **xrayjeeper83** » Thu May 19, 2011 4:58 pm

aquaclear makes great hob filters.....what size tank.

With puffers you wanna shoot for 10x turn over..aka 30gallon tank, you want a filter that pumps at least 300gph

My HD PVR · Post by **My HD PVR** » Thu May 19, 2011 5:01 pm

I have a 29g... so...

xrayjeeper83 · Post by **xrayjeeper83** » Thu May 19, 2011 5:35 pm

Id say an Aquaclear 70, not overly expensive and does great with filtration and can do 300gph.

I have a AC110 on my big tank and love it, its been up for less then 2 weeks and im already thinking about getting a second one and taking down my wet/dry

Post by **bertie 83** » Thu May 19, 2011 5:44 pm

i always keep a mechanical and a wet/dry on all tanks so i get a good mix of filtration, bio is well worth it on top of a good mech filter imho. much better than 2 mech filters. my mech runs about 4x aquarium volume per hour and mech 2x thats what works for me. u running b/w or s/w may be a diff story lol

Post by **Pufferpunk** » Thu May 19, 2011 6:43 pm

+1 on the AC. I use a 110 on my 20g. Puffers are messy!

My HD PVR · Post by **My HD PVR** » Thu May 19, 2011 6:54 pm

only problem, my hood only has room for one filter... so what should i do?

xrayjeeper83 · Post by **xrayjeeper83** » Thu May 19, 2011 8:21 pm

you could move all the media to the new filter, i dont believe that will harm the cycle at all

My HD PVR · Post by **My HD PVR** » Thu May 19, 2011 8:26 pm

Just get the AC 70? Remove the filter and viola?

xrayjeeper83 · Post by **xrayjeeper83** » Thu May 19, 2011 8:44 pm

wait for others to speak up, but i dont see why you cant just remove old filter install the AC70 with all the old filters media.

jus85411 · Post by **jus85411** » Fri May 20, 2011 3:27 pm

xrayjeeper83 wrote:wait for others to speak up, but i dont see why you cant just remove old filter install the AC70 with all the old filters media.

do this. all the bacteria you would need is in the sponge, ceramic rings, etc

PolishPuff · Post by **PolishPuff** » Fri May 20, 2011 4:42 pm

I got three hob Cascade 300 filters on my 125g tank. I like them very much

KJB · Post by **KJB** » Wed May 25, 2011 4:36 pm

2nd buying an Aquaclear I have a 50 and a 20 on my 20 long.

But you cannot just swap them and put media into the Aquaclear since penguin filters are designed to have almost all the nitrifiers in the biowheel. So you will have to run them together until the Aquaclear is seeded.

My HD PVR · Post by **My HD PVR** » Wed May 25, 2011 4:44 pm

i had to take out the biowheel apparently when i made the BW switch... should i put it back on?

Post by **Pufferpunk** » Wed May 25, 2011 4:50 pm

That's gonna make a mess with salt spray.

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