New filter

[spAcE mOnkEy]

Well, its the day before i go on vacation for two weeks, so i decide to do a water change and clean out my eheim. Well, i broke the eheim. I dont know how, but i broke this little thing the motor sits on. I also just dropped 100 bucks on fish the other day, so i have almost no money. Well, its a 55 gal tank and i had a eheim classic 2213 filter on it. So i need to get a new filter and quick! I have a person on this forum, boom-sage, coming to look after my fish while im gone. I was gonna order a BIO-Wheel Filter 350. I also have another filter in my 55, a sponge filter recomended for 65 gallons. Theres a Rena model 400 pump running this, one valve is for the 55 another for a 30 gal powering another sponge filter. So the filtration on my 55 gal would be this sponge filter and the BIO-Wheel 350. But! the substrate in my 55 is sand. Would the bio wheel suck up this sand and grind the motor down and create a really annoying sound??? Please help me!

 

[freddyk]

Unlike canister filters, HOB suck water through the impeller before it gets filtered and not after, so they are at risk of damage from sand and the traditional accompanying noise. Generally, keeping the intake no more then halfway to the sand bed does the trick - it won't pull it up from that high, just turn it off when cleaning and disturbing the sand.

If you have certain cichlids, or some digger that disturbs the sand, you can always cover the intake with a sponge, as a pre-filter.

 

[Tolak]

Does it still hold water, or did you break the case?

Tolak

 

[Matt_Didg]

mine doesnt suck any substrate up, but i've got gravel....not sure bout sand

but if its not sitting in the sand substrate then it shouldn't suck any up

 

[jimboliana]

Why dont you just buy a replacement part from Eheim and save yourself a load of dosh?

 

[Dorkhedeos]

if you really want a new filter instead of fixing it, get an aquaclear. they have huge media capacity. i regret buying a cheapo hob instead of a nice one.