Aquarium filter, the difference between life and death
Without a good aquarium filter, aquarium fish and aquarium plants have a short life. It doesn't matter what you do or what you don't do: without a good filter, your aquarium will become a poisonous mixture with dead animals. This also applies if you don't clean your aquarium filter properly. Not the intention and absolutely not necessary. Read more information about the right filter for your aquarium and about cleaning your aquarium filter here.
Want to find the right aquarium filter quickly?
A good balance in your aquarium water starts in your filter. Without balance you have a lot of algae. During the past years I have tried many filters and also achieved very varying results. Leakage, blockages, stench, I have experienced everything. Now I have two aquariums, the smaller version with a cheap, good and modern Eheim internal filter that is easy to clean. I use this external filter for my 300 liter aquarium . That was one of my best investments. Moreover, this filter is economical and quite quiet, which is important to me.
Why an aquarium filter, why a toilet?
If you wonder why an aquarium filter is needed, it is very easy to answer with a counter question: Why do we have a toilet in the house?
Like other animals, fish secrete substances, including feces, and these end up in the water. The aquarium filter also catches other dirt that has entered the water and ensures that the water continues to circulate.
It makes an important contribution to maintaining the balance within the aquarium, so that the aquarium fish and aquarium plants remain healthy.
Aquarium plants that are placed in an aquarium also have a purifying effect. The fewer plants there are in your aquarium, the more the filter will have to do. A freshwater aquarium with many well-growing plants requires less from a filter than a Malawi biotope . This requires a lot more from the filter, because there are hardly any aquarium plants in it. Aquarium plants are fundamental and have many benefits. Read the blog about aquarium plants for all the benefits.
Clean the aquarium filter, why and how often?
Cleaning the aquarium filter is a job that is simply necessary. In particular mechanical filters because the dirt sometimes tends to accumulate there. The biological aquarium filters should be disturbed less. You want to maintain the bacterial colonies that have a purifying effect on your aquarium water. A big mistake is therefore that people clean their filters with boiling water.
Cleaning your aquarium filter is part of the whole. By the whole I mean the balance in your aquarium water. If the balance is good, your aquarium plants will also grow well. That is why periodic maintenance is necessary for your entire aquarium.
Aquarium filter types, which one suits you?
The filters that you can buy in the store are the inner and outer filters, which can be divided into mechanical and biological filters. That may seem confusing, but it is not:
• The inner filter hangs in the aquarium, the outer filter is an aquarium filter that is placed outside the aquarium
• For example, a mechanical filter removes the visible dirt from the aquarium water, where a biological filter filters and cleans based on “good” bacterial colonies.
Because the internal filters take up a lot of usable space within the aquarium, an external filter is often chosen. You can make the best choice by comparing the pros and cons. Well, now we know why aquarium filters are important, but which one do you need in your aquarium?
Aquarium Aquarium filter
Biorb aquarium Internal filter
Nano aquarium External filter or small internal filter because of space
Aquarium up to 75 liters Internal filter
Aquarium larger than 75 liters Internal filter or external filter
Malawi aquarium Organic external filter
Brackish water aquarium Internal filter or external filter according to size
Make the choice for your aquarium filter
You can choose an aquarium filter on the basis of the aquarium inhabitants and the size of the aquarium itself. The larger the aquarium and the more plants, the less the load on the filter. The smaller the aquarium and the fewer plants, the greater the load on the filter. It is wise to put the types of aquarium filters next to each other and to make a choice.
Aquarium Fans.nl
