API NEXX FILTER
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Customer Review
Product Description
The evolution in filtration. The new API nexx™ FILTER boasts easy media changes with no priming or disconnecting required. Up to 55 gallons. Low energy consumption; 11.5 W for flow rate of 153 gal/h. Add up to two modular extentions for up to 165 gallons as your needs change. Top to learn more
Watch For Leaks
Just set this up 2 days ago with 1 extension filter. Using it on a 90 gallon freshwater tank. There are both good things and bad so far.The Good:* Everything you need to set it up is included in the box.* It's very quiet running, you have to really listen to hear the sound of the water movement.* It has a strong current.* Was easy to figure out how to take the media baskets out and fill the top section with our choice of media. (You will need mesh bags if you use anything with pieces under 1 1/2in long)The Bad:* If you don't put the filters on the bases just right, they will Leak.* The directions on how to hook the filter up are pictorial only. And don't always make lots of sense. They're also hidden inside the longer box inside the main one.* Some of the clamps they give you are pretty cheap feeling, so we may need to replace them at some point soon.* The part of the filter that sits inside the tank,...
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Mixed first impressions
What's not clear from the pictures online (or on the box, or the description) is that this filter consists of two major components. The first is the canister which includes the base, container and media baskets (two of them, one on each side.) The second is the water pump -- it's essentially a small pond pump that mounds via suction cups inside your aquarium which pushes water via the included hoses to the canister, and drives enough pressure to return the water to the tank on the other side of the loop.Pro:- Quite possibly this is the quietest filter system I've (n)ever heard. The air pump driving the tanks water feature is far louder than this canister system (and it's not all that bad.)- Had no issues with water leakage at all, anywhere in the system. Possible that I cheated a bit to avoid the problem mentioned by the previous reviewer. Used a small amount of divers pure silicone grease on all the "O" rings and mating gaskets during assembly.- Flow...
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RODI
Great tank but filter is ???