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kk
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2025
Positive:The filter is compact and quiet, and everything is included—even the little ceramic filtration balls of which there was exactly one too many to close the compartment. If you've ever built a Swedish furniture piece, it was a better bonus find than a wooden dowel or screw left over, which can strike fear in anyone's heart that the whole thing will fall apart when you sneeze. :)The spray bar is a nice touch, and the two elbows it comes with means you can have it above or below water line, pointed different ways, and change that easily over time. If the trickle noise makes you crazy one day, you can just detach it, or submerge it.Meh:The hardest part of the whole experience is dismantling the many parts in order to place the filtration balls in and then put it all together in total. The diagram is lacking and it serves as the only source of instruction. It will feel like you're breaking something to pull the sections of the main plastic unit apart to access the ceramic section, but that's how you do it.The rubber tubing and oxygen volume control end is missing entirely from instruction and so mine is dangling outside the tank. I need to trim the length of tube and put a clip on the tank lip to hold it there.The air output hole is open, about ⅜", and with a small tank and small fish, that worries me a bit that fish could swim up it. There's decent pressure coming out of it, so I hope the power never goes out. I am using the spray arm until I learn how curious my fish are to find trouble.It's a strong, quiet-humming filter with versatile water flow choices. Installation made me feel bad about myself for about 10 minutes, but it's worth it to plod on and celebrate yourself when it fires up. Hope my photos help your assembly journey.
Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2025
Super easy w the included instructions w photo to pop these parts all together - it doesn’t say how to disassemble the main case to put the round filter bead/stones in but all you do is hold and pull bottom and top halves of that box part and it comes apart easily- I dumped those in and it easily slid back together snuggly.Only downside- and that is all of these type of filters- is that the water going in is from the underside. I have a pregnant swordtail so couldn’t put it in there as the fry would get sucked up in the bottom. Would be nice if all of this type had an additional filter sock that fit each one you could slide up on the bottom that fit so it wouldn’t have extra material getting jammed into the impeller- but that is all of these.Plugged in (in my goldfish tank- they can use all the filtering I can put in there- dirty fish but I love them- like little dogs… they seemed to like the waterfall arm’s new gentle splashing at the water surface and it also fit under the lid which was nice tooA good value and so far so good!
Cyril Mekhail
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2025
I’m going to be honest—this thing keeps falling apart. I put it in my fish tank, and trying to readjust it is a nightmare. The pump doesn’t lock into place properly, and the notches make it impossible to turn the nozzle without the pump detaching from the rest of the filter body.Once you stick the filter on the tank, it literally snaps apart because the tabs aren’t strong enough to hold it together during adjustments. The airline hose, which is supposed to pull in oxygen for the water flow, doesn’t fit snugly either—it keeps slipping off the pump. I’ve never seen aquarium airline tubing that loose before, and it’s likely because there are no fluted ends where the hose connects to the pump.The concept seemed promising, but the poor build quality makes this thing unusable. Ironically, the suction cups are excellent—they stick so well to the tank that it’s actually a problem. Since the unit comes apart so easily, having it firmly stuck in place just makes repositioning even more frustrating. Even the slightest movement, like sliding it to the side, causes the entire thing to fall apart.Good idea, terrible execution.
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