Could I fill it with tap water than throw some water conditioner in there ?

@@sammarcin2617 if you are on a city water system, as long as you use somethign like prime or other water treatment to remove the chlorine, you will be good. you have to make sure that you do that before you add your media's back into it. tap water, by health requirements, has alot of extra stuff in it to make water safe for human consumption. the extra stuff is there to kill bacteria that cause illness to humans, so if your biomedia, which has the beneficial bacteria in it, touches untreated water, any chlorine in the water, will kill that bacteria, and you need that bacteria to help with the nitrogen cycle, so if you kill a lot of the bacteria that your system has, you will likely see ammonia spikes.

good advice. thanks for the comment

I don't know that I would. I see it getting blown all over the place inside and outside the filter. I'd probably just keep it in a media bag. you can get them for like a couple bucks at petsmart

as long as your course mechanical filtration is being hit first it doesn't really matter the arrangement afterward. I've been told it HAS to be this way on a hundred different things related to fish. 90% of the time that is just what works for onebperson. as long as the water is safe and the fish are happy it doesn't make much difference in freshwater.

+Pray4Mojo mechanical media still hold a good amount of beneficial bacteria.

Witz End Sure it does. But it doesn't affect anything by rinsing it.

Pray4Mojo the chlorine in the tap water kills the bacteria....

Witz End Yep. It doesn't matter though. Most of your bacteria is in your bio media and gravel. Unless all you run is mechanical it's fine to rinse.

yeah thats true

Noted. All my Aquaclears have the biological in bags obviously. The canister didn't come with bgs so I'm like whatever lol

Ya I used my aquatop without media bags for awhile and it was a pain to rinse the bio media without making a mess and losing some of it. Now that it is the hair nets its much easier!

@@SpeakmansAquariums Is there any problem when I download this video? For a video on my channel

One every other week usually

I've heard of people doing this but have never done it personally so I can't really speak to whether or not it works.

Hoang Tran 30 or 60

kyle Smile that’s running your impeller dry, even though it’s a few seconds it can be very harmful and burn out your filter. i recommend unplugging then clogging the flow on the pipes with the little lever. just use a plastic container and no water will be a provlem

Who?

Agree 🤯

great. not one problem at all. I'm setting up a 55 here shortly and using more aquatop canisters for the filtration. It's been everything I could have asked for

I'm getting a 65 gallon soon and was trying to decide if I was going to buy this canister or not. Thanks for getting back to me!!

Any particular reason you don't use the UV?

+Dustin Mitchell I used it once to help with a slight algae bloom and it seemed to work. I feel like the water might be moving slightly too quickly past the bulb to get the full effects of the UV, but I think it works nontheless. I simply just haven't needed it to be honest with you.

+Speakmans Aquariums I don't think you can go wrong here. It's lacking the fancy things some of the name brand canisters have like auto prime, etc. but it throws the water out, is so deep you can put multiple kinds of media of your choosing in it with no problems, and it's very quite. You literally cannot hear it run. I actually check the output to make sure it's still running every night when I feed my fish because you can hear it.

I can agree with that

Mine lives in a milk crate for easier carrying.

Hi.... could you pls explain the chemical additives you mentioned to treat the tap water before cleaning canister medias. Sodium Thiosulfate.... is this readily available and as I use Prime myself, would your choice be a cheaper option? Is it safe for my neocardina colony and my breeding colonies of Endlers,& Guppies & my Breeding Pairs of Plecos, Platys , Swordtails & Mollies.... there are so many fry being born almost daily that I'm scared to clean the tank which is turning green from algae and tannin leaking from the huge driftwood features in there. So the Nitrobacter puts ammonia levels to zero? How long does this remain so? Is it also safe for my community tank? Where do I buy these chemicals and what do you recommend to treat the greens/ brown tinge beside regular canister cleaning, a good interior scrub , vacuum the substrate and water changes regularly ?... I'm scared to vacuum substrate as there are hundreds of invisible neocardina babies and I'm scared I'll kill half of them,plus suck up half the fry as they r everywhere in my 175 litre tank.... please help me. My email is misscar1979@gmail.com. I'm only new to planted tanks and the breeding just took off so I'm trying to set up my other 175 litre tank as a grow tank maybe as my 10 gallon seem way to small as a fry grow tank.... any advice will be welcomed guys ngirls

Lick em clean

I have well water

that is not true, I am on a drilled well and use tap water all the time to clean my filters and have no issues what so ever. if one is on city water or has a really bad source it may be somewhat of an issue but don't use such a wide brush to mislead people.

I make no promises but I do try :)

that's what is recommended for this one as well. I've discovered it's much easier to fill the canister with water first before you start pumping. but hey what er works best for you. thanks for watching!

I am. I wrote that in an earlier comment.

Speakmans Aquariums yes I figured and wanted it to show up in comments again

Thanks lol

I have well water. There is no chlorine in it. If you have tap water with chlorine in it then simply use a dechlorinator just as if you were doing a water change.

Oh thank god. You're lucky for that, saves $. Are there any problems (for fish, invertebrates, or plants) with the salt used for softening your water? Always wondered..

+Devin Loewer we actually don't use a softener either. Our water isn't terribly hard. I have some friends who use softened water on their tanks and their pH is over 8. Other than that there doesn't seem to be any problems in their tanks albeit we are talking about freshwater here

Jamie Houston lol I do sound nasaly don't I? partially because of a crappie camera and partially because of a car wreck. deviated septum in my nose. that's funny though. always thought the same thing

please explain

hasn't failed me yet. you will find this hobby has multiple ways of doing things. Likewise, a lot of people think theirs is the only way.

I'm not sure to be honest. I've seen the exact same filter online by like two other companies. I'm sure it's some knock off of some sort. But it's a good filter nontheless

, it is supposed to be a Marineland 360 C

+mike scully mmmm Idk. It's not exactly the same design. Either way it carries a cheaper price tag and is very functional.

+Speakmans Aquariums knock off or no knock offs its a bad ass filter that knos how to do its job...I got one also..u should check out the sunsun...its basically a same filter but 2 times cheaper... can't go wrong

+Ty Dang I AM RUNNING ALL FX5 AND FX6,s other then my 90 g I run 3 360,s and two 75 hangers on the back.