The Puffer Forum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

That's gonna make a mess with salt spray.