Equipment Review and Discussion :: Shark sand filter

[windowskiller987]

My old cascade 100 had just died after I had it for 5 months. The woman at the pet store had told me that someone had came in to the store to return a Cascade 100 so she tried to convince me to buy the twice as expensive Shark sand filter:? . Now that my filter had died I decided to buy the Shark Filter which claimed that it do up to 60 G.P.H:o . This filter was a rip-off It immediately slowed down & never cleaned up any of the crap in the water:( . So now I have bought a cascade 600 which claims up to 50 G.P.H. This Cascade does much better than the Shark. I would recommend this Filter for anyone who has a 50 gallon tank or smaller.

[cam722]

60 gph? That to me is barely moving any water.... What size tank do you have? The aquaclear series is much much better.. heck the 110 is rated at like 500gph. It costs like $35 on Petsmart.com but you can take the ad into their stores and they will give you the online price. Btw, I have a 75 gallon tank and have the Aquaclear 110.. A filter should be rated for at least 2-3 times the size of your tank, so if you have a 50 gallon tank you should be getting a filter rated for between a 100-150 gph... I think I have that right..

[windowskiller987]

oh.......