Marine land canister filters

[Bweb]

I always use Fluval Can. Filters I have many of them, but on one trip to my LFS the guy talked me in to trying a C220 M/L filter I bought two The main selling point was that they come with all the media including bio balls.

IMO they are the biggest pieces of garbage on the market first of all the GPH they claim to turn over is a total lie I even tried running it with no media once just to see if that made a difference it did not. I only run bio media with the foam pads no Carbon and no polishing pads. I generally do maintenance every 3 months cleaning the impellers rinsing out the foam pads and give the bio balls a dunk in a bucket of aged tank water to all my Can. filters.

Never have problems with my Fluvals but one of the C220's just stopped running so I cleaned it tested the impeller and it still wouldn't start repeated these steps 4 times and nothing.

This filter is under 1 year old.

I have a fluval 403 that could pump out my septic tank and still keep running and it is old and well used.

[TOMMYN3D]

Bweb, sorry to hear that. i too have the old style fluvals 403 303 and 203's and they are very reliable.they were my 1st canister filter that i ever bought and never bought anything else. tommy

[joe_jaskot]

Bweb, contact customer service at Marineland. They usually stand behind their products. It is most likely covered by a warranty.

[Heyguy74]

I also have a C220. Same scenario, I was talking into buying it. I like eheims. Not the best filter. It started to leak after a few months. The leaked did stop after I took it apart and put it back together. Its been fine ever since. I do know that marineland had a big problem with them leaking. They did replace a lot of parts for free. Get in touch with them.

[Bweb]

I Talked to my buddy who works at a pet store he said this most filters use a Stainless metal shaft for their impellers so the impellers last for a long time Marine land switched to a Ceramic shaft which where's on the impeller causing it to become oval shaped.

He thinks it was to sell more parts for more profit, not sure about that statement though.

The fact remains that the GPH is weak and I feel like I'm wasting Elec. by running the C220's

Not to mention It killed all the bio media buy shutting down I think a filter should run for more that a year before needing parts if properly maintained.