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Classics are known for being ultra quiet, while they don’t have baskets they aren’t that hard to clean imo, I load mine up with all sponge and floss at the top, you really don’t need anything else, all the bio you need is living on the sponge. One advantage to having all sponge is I just bring...

It’s just a plastic bio ball with moss on it, is it technically a filter? Kind of but it’s misleading.

sponge filters don’t really apply to the GPH rule of filtering.

Don’t know much about these filters but I would start by pouring water into the filter to get it going, I have to do this to my aqua clear

looks like it could be the magnet part of the impeller?

Take the intake pipe off and flick the impeller with a pen or toothpick while turned on. This is a known issue with AC’s

Nano Canister with a sponge on the intake would look the most sleek.

have you looked?

Clean the filter if snails are in there! If you buy new filters the same will happen...

^^this and are you using spray bars? also fill that can up with sponges and fine floss, should improve flow, what’s the flow like with no media?

It’s an aqua clear correct? Sometimes the impeller gets stuck, remove the intake pipe and flick the impeller fin with a pen or something, should start right up, first time this happened to me I though my AC was dead!

Very cool! Hopefully we will find out if this is it or not.

Force, if you zoom in on the pic it says it filters up to 40 gph, it doesn’t say anything about a pump or air pump on the filter. as you can see it’s completely see through, it doesn’t show any kind of air pump or anything on the box. I can’t find much info on it but it’s called a long life...

This is true as aquatic plants eat nitrates

I can’t find much info on these filters but like the OP said, they didn’t rely on air pumps or anything! I know because I had the same filter and a separate air pump that I hooked up to a olde type scuba guy with the treasure opening and closing lol!! I only used the air pump on him, I...

Not sure if this is it or not but if memory serves me correctly, it does look like this filter. Another pic of one but smaller model

If it’s ceramic media you can boil it and rinse well after, I’ve done this before with success.

On the classic line That space is actually made for efimech, the ceramic ring looking mechanical media, if you use this stuff it catches a Lot of the bigger detritus and allows water to flow throughout the holes and up through the sponges. It really catches a lot of muck, you’d really be...

I’m 51 and I remember having an hob like this in the early 80s when I was a teen, I don’t remember anything other than it was like you said, no power chord and it worked by gravity somehow? I can’t believe I even kept my fish alive? I had no idea what I was doing back then! Poor fishies

As with any canister the easiest way to prime I hate to say is suck on the output! that's right! Make sure the cam is completely empty, have the output out of the tank and make sure the spray bar or duckbill whatever you have is detached and the flow control knobs open so you can have an easier...