ILuvMyGoldBarb
Marine Tank Addict
Registered: February 2008
Posts: 10336
|
|
Review Date: Mon December 8, 2008
|
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $40.00
| Rating: 0
|
|
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
|
Highly efficient biofilter
|
|
Cons:
|
not good for planted tanks
|
I love my Emperor 400. It can handle high bioload tanks with ease. Not the quietest filter on the market but that is to be expected from a HOB filter. One of the very best HOB filters for the money.
------------------------------
Considering a Marine Aquarium? A Breakdown of the Components, Live Rock, Cycling a Marine Tank
"The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The WILLINGNESS to learn is a choice." - Unknown
|
|
|
|
Red
Senior Member
Registered: March 2008
Posts: 12427
|
|
Review Date: Mon December 8, 2008
|
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 9
|
|
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
|
cheap great biofilter
|
|
Cons:
|
|
Agreed with above, great for the money. I use it on a 6 tanks..
|
|
|
|
|
leggomypleco
Flowerhorn Guru
Registered: December 2008
Location: Indy
Posts: 1682
|
|
Review Date: Sat December 13, 2008
|
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 9
|
|
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
|
cheap
|
|
Cons:
|
none
|
good deal and great biofilter
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
|
AABatteries
AC Editor
Registered: December 2007
Location: Ohio
Posts: 3029
|
|
Review Date: Sat December 27, 2008
|
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 6
|
|
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
|
Efficient
|
|
Cons:
|
Ongoing cost
|
These work great, but the price of having to keep buying the bio-wheels is the only downside.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Anonymous
|
|
Review Date: Fri January 2, 2009
|
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 8
|
|
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
|
easy maintenance, media baskets for different types of media,
|
|
Cons:
|
noisy, needs 6" of space behind tank.
|
Great filter, used filter baskets with micron pads cut to size. Had a crystal clear tank. Zero ammonia. It needs 6" of space behind tank. If it was quieter, it would be a 10.
|
|
|
|
|
sandy_n
sandy
Registered: March 2008
Location: Missouri
Posts: 3161
|
|
Review Date: Wed January 28, 2009
|
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 8
|
|
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
|
Works well
|
|
Cons:
|
Noisy
|
This filter works well although I found it to be a little noisier than I like.
------------------------------
You can't play nice with people who don't play by the rules!
|
|
|
|
|
terrapin24h
Senior Member
Registered: May 2008
Posts: 1388
|
|
Review Date: Thu May 28, 2009
|
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 8
|
|
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
|
good filtration both bio and physcial good current and water movement
|
|
Cons:
|
can get noisy
|
Mine tended to be noisy, but only due to the water fall sounds it made because of the bio wheel. It is a good filter, well built and moves alot of water.
|
|
|
|
|
1fastneonrt
Junior Member
Registered: January 2009
Location: Grafton Ohio
Posts: 23
|
|
Review Date: Wed August 19, 2009
|
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 9
|
|
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
|
Easy to clean, Affordable, Bio Filtration +++++, Last
|
|
Cons:
|
A little noisy, Takes up some space behind the tank,
|
This filter would be easy to forget if you didn't look at it. It is very easy to clean with replaceable filter pads that slides in and out the top. The Bio-wheels never need to be touched once the aquarium is up and running. This filter can handle heavily stocked tanks from 45-75 gallons nicely. I have one that has been in operation for the past 14 years. I would have rated it a 10 but the filter does make a slight gurgle noise.
------------------------------
75Gal.Lake Malawi Cichlids
|
|
|
|
|
AdrienDeLaChicago
Member
Registered: August 2009
Posts: 289
|
|
Review Date: Thu September 24, 2009
|
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 0
|
|
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
|
I don't know, It's too noisy for me.
|
|
Cons:
|
Unacceptably NOISY!!!
|
This filter may do a good job at filtering the water but I live in a small studio apartment and I can hear this filter everywhere in my apartment. It has this faint rattling, humming washer machine sound. It's driving me crazy.
I rode my bike over 5 miles one way to buy this filter from a vendor whom I like to support. I'm taking it back tomorrow. I need it quiet.
|
|
|
|
|
smaug
can't keep fish alive
Registered: October 2007
Posts: 11861
|
|
Review Date: Sat October 3, 2009
|
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 8
|
|
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
|
strongly built
|
|
Cons:
|
a bit noisy
|
Ive had one of these in constant use for 3 yrs
|
|
|
|
|
Lab_Rat
Got fry?
Registered: June 2008
Location: Deep, deep South
Posts: 6882
|
|
Review Date: Mon October 26, 2009
|
Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 4
|
|
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
|
Good filtration
|
|
Cons:
|
Very noisy, there are better HOBs on the market
|
Very noisy filter. Had the Emperor 400 and it was difficult to prime and start up each time I turned it off. Not much room for media, overall would not buy again and would not recommend.
------------------------------
 Originally Posted by i_am_511
Lighten up its just the internet its not like someone came in your house and punched a baby in the face.
|
|
|
|
|
Wild Turkey
Forum Flunkie
Registered: March 2008
Location: Annapolis Maryland
Posts: 11464
|
|
Review Date: Tue December 22, 2009
|
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 0
|
|
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
|
Works as advertised
|
|
Cons:
|
Noisy
|
Was my nosiest filter by far when I ran it, other than that no problems.
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
|
Scrup
Memento vivere...
Registered: October 2009
Location: Longmont, Co
Posts: 3206
|
|
Review Date: Mon January 25, 2010
|
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 8
|
|
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
|
works well, little noise when run properly, ability to customize
|
|
Cons:
|
can be picky with water levels and cavitation
|
I have several of these on my tanks, they work great. two have been modified to take custom media, and one I use as a refugium for my goldfish tank. With a low water level, they get very noisy. Anything, including air in the impeller will make a great deal of noise. When the water level is high and the impeller clear, it is almost silent.
------------------------------
Who is "General Failure" and why is he reading my hard drive?
|
|
|
|
|
jimw/oscar
Member
Registered: March 2010
Location: Ames Iowa U.S.A.
Posts: 363
|
|
Review Date: Sun April 4, 2010
|
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 9
|
|
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
|
handles bio-load, modifiable for own mechnical media
|
|
Cons:
|
can't think of any, don't think it noisy like many seem to
|
I've had a 280 running for many years w/ no problems. I like the inserts I can put anything in (I put floss for mechanical filtration before the bio-wheel.
------------------------------
"In order to punish me for my contempt of authority the authorities have made me an authority myself" - Albert Einstein.
|
|
|
|
|
Cermet
Senior Member
Registered: May 2010
Location: Glen Arm. MD
Posts: 2635
|
|
Review Date: Sun May 2, 2010
|
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 9
|
|
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
|
Great bio-filtering, spare parts available, room for peat and a filter cartige!
|
|
Cons:
|
Can be noisy if water level falls; way to narrow filter mount - very hard to fit to 55/75 walls
|
Great unit for the price. The bio-wheels are very tough and my units have lasted over five years without a failure. They sell new impiler drive shafts so the unit should last a long time. Units prime quickly but you must keep tank nearly full. Once air gets in, need to turn unit off and bleed a few seconds, then unit gets quite quickly.
The spill way/filter body could have a wider seperation.
------------------------------
Knowledge is fun(damental)
A 75 gal with eight Discus, fake plants, and a lot of wood also with sand substrate. Clean up crew is down to just two Sterba's Corys. Filters: continuous new water flow; canister w/UV, in-tank algae scrubber!! Finally, junked the nitrate removal unit from hell.
For Fishless cycling:http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/aqua...ead.php?t=5640
|
|
|
|
|
;)
