External Filter Help

[PrettyDiscus]

Which Eheim external filter will be okay for a 40g tank. It will be heavily planted with Discus. I was thinking of the Eheim Professional 2224 which is for tanks up to 250ltrs. Mine is 180 ltrs. Should i go for a different one or will this work just fine?
Thank you

 

[k.o.d]

This will work fine, filter recommendations are pretty subjective, but I have never found any problems with Eheim equipment, high quality and 3 year warranty is hard to beat
You may want to thinkl about a Pro2 as they have built in flow starters, the Pro1's are literally suck it and see.
The filter itself is fine

Steve

 

[PrettyDiscus]

So i could use the Eheim Professional II 2026 External Filter? Is there such thing as over filtering?

 

[k.o.d]

No such thing as over filtering and the ProII 2026 is the dogs danglies.

the filter outlet would be a spray bar below the level of the surface, esp if you are going to be using CO2 injection as fertiliser

 

[Kevstir]

Iv got the 2026 on my vision m8 , its a great filter

I got it from here, withe coupon code stock-up you get 5% discount , makes its £95 delivered and includes all media

Kev