Help me decide brand of filter and heater, please :)

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 13:24:42 -0500, "NetMax"
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, however, I also came across this review of what I'm guessing is
the
latest edition of the Fluvals, since they call it the MSF model:

http://www.fishinthe.net/html/reviews-11.html


You know, if you actually read the entire review you will find that
this guy is using the wrong type of media with the fluval's. He is
using "Floss" which will clog everytime! Instead of using the filter
material that is recomended by Fluval...


Thanks for the link. The first reviewer detailed his findings more, but
had issues with maintenance. The next 7 reviewers thought is was easy to
clean but offered little details. It's always interesting the extremes
you can get from anecdotal reporting, though it's hard to imagine a
scenario which would require cleaning a canister filter every 2 weeks.
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see above

I can tell you that all my work Fluvals are on planted tanks, and some of
them *blush* I have not cleaned in over a year. I _do_ open them
periodically, but if everything looks good, I just give the bio-max a
rinse and back in it goes. Depending on your fish-load, you might find
that no accumulation occurs, (which one of my customers finds very
confusing, but his tank is overfiltered).

Simple question for you then netmax would be what media are you using
in your filters? Only biomax and the foam prefilters or are you also
using additional media of some other type?