Hagen AquaClear is highly sought after and realible in use with versatile chambers and 3rd party mods available, great reliability, good reusable filter media.
If you go to PONGURU’s RU-vid channel he’s got a series off videos called ‘pimp my filter’ it shows the proper setup mostly for canister filters, but there are some HOB filters, always good for a check, good luck. 👍
I ran 2 seachem tidal 110s on my 55g and they were the best filters I've ever had. They're so simple to use, self-priming, tons of room for biomedia and filter floss and super quite. The surface skimmer imo isn't needed, but for some set-ups it might be practical
Great video! I love how thorough and detailed your reviews are. The comparisons between different hang on back filters really helped me make an informed decision for my aquarium. Thanks for the fantastic content!
I've been struggling to find a reliable Hang On Back filter, and your recommendations were exactly what I needed. The OASE Biostyle is definitely my favorite now!
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Most of these filters are great options, but there is one which I'd warn against getting. I tried out the Oase Biostyle a few months back thinking it would be a good choice since I had experience with their canister filters, all of which had performed well for me. Their hang on back did not follow suit though. I three in a row die within a week. Two of the three bit the dust because of faulty heaters, and the third had a motor which failed only a few days into service. The two with the failed heaters left me with a huge mess to clean up since they melted right through the plastic outter housing which caused water to spew forth onto my floor and furniture, and which introduced some sort of tiny beads of material into the aquarium, necessitating a complete change of the substrate. That gets expensive when you're using a layer of ADA Aqua Soil Amazonia. Fortunately, there weren't any fish in the tank when the filters failed, as in all three cases, the tank was still cycling. It's a really serious indictment of the model that it can't even get past the cycling phase. I also note that there were quite a few reviews on Amazon over time where people had had the same problem. I know that they will never read this, but if somehow they did come across this, I would recommend to them that they look into the supplier of those heaters. They shouldn't be failing that often. If you have that number of fails (other peoples experiences included) in a particular part, something is wrong. Since most budding aquarists start out small, having their first experience with Oase be a bad one could be a problem overall, which would not be a good thing for sales of their overall very good canisters when hobbyists move up to bigger aquariums with more robust filtering needs. To sum up, I recommend that people not buy the Oase Biostyle unless Oase have managed to sort out the issues with the heaters and motors. How you can know if they have or haven't is a whole other issue. Better safe then sorry. Say away unless there's something on the box that says "new and improved" or something like that, and even then, remember that you might be returning it. Perhaps it would be better to try some of the other offerings here. Even though its a lot more than I need for the size of tan I'm running, I ended up going with a small canister, figuring that I'll eventually get a larger tank eventually where the power is not wasted. I am unable to say with any experience to bac it up which of the other filters mentioned in this article are best, but there are a lot of well respected names in the list, and I'm sure there are some very good picks there. Best of luck to all of you in your fish keeping adventures! It's a great hobby to be involved in.
Thank you for your feedback. First generations are always going to have major issues. I remember the Cobalt heaters having major issues when they came out. It’s low on the most because the feature seem awesome but it is a very new product. Hopefully they figure it out as it has a lot of potential. Their canister and internal filters are pretty solid.
Great video about various amazing types of aquarium for the house .Great Video topic and interesting. Thank you so much for providing this video to us.
Hello, I never see Aqua-Tech Power Aquarium 3-Step filter on any of these lists. I saw one that is for 30-60 gallons of water at Walmart for $43 bucks. Are these just not good filters? If anyone knows anything about them, please let me know. Happy fish keeping, everyone.
Previously I used a Seachem Tidal filter but it was too old, I wanted to replace it with an Aqueon Quietflow filter which seemed suitable for my tank. Can it? Thanks for the recommendation!
