Flatulent Filters--TetraTec
Posted: 04 Apr 2007, 05:21
Just FYI for anyone who for some reason is considering one of these filters...mainly because sometimes you can find them at PetCo like I did, for only $15...they have great capacity and work about the same as any of the Tetra or Whisper hang-on-tank filters you may have tried. I've found Tetra filters to be convenient for quick chemical filtration uses...as I don't like to open up my canister to use an adsorption media, and I don't like to use chemical filtration on a continuous basis...just for specialty purposes like filtering out meds or maybe keeping toxin spikes at by when I have to be away from home.
But there is one really hilarious and well, annoying drawback to this TetraTec filter--at least on mine. When it goes through the cycle of emptying and filling the "Life Chamber", which is a poor man's version of wet-dry filtration, it sounds like one loud rip-roaring passing of gas. Yeah, like we need more of that around this house.
I don't know if ALL of the TetraTecs do this. But I have been fiddling with this filter since Saturday and I still am the proud owner of the incredible pharting philter. Luckily, by adjusting the flow rate into the chamber I can forgo the wet-dry gimmick and it will work and sound like a regular filter. It puts out a really strong current. I wonder what my cories will think of it. The 4 danios had a blast with it.
But there is one really hilarious and well, annoying drawback to this TetraTec filter--at least on mine. When it goes through the cycle of emptying and filling the "Life Chamber", which is a poor man's version of wet-dry filtration, it sounds like one loud rip-roaring passing of gas. Yeah, like we need more of that around this house.
I don't know if ALL of the TetraTecs do this. But I have been fiddling with this filter since Saturday and I still am the proud owner of the incredible pharting philter. Luckily, by adjusting the flow rate into the chamber I can forgo the wet-dry gimmick and it will work and sound like a regular filter. It puts out a really strong current. I wonder what my cories will think of it. The 4 danios had a blast with it.