Your Equipment

Tell us about what equipment you use. Filters,heaters,power heads,etc. Give the pros and cons and how long you have had the equipment up and running. Recommendations are welcome.

I'll start with a couple of filters I use. I have Penguin marineland filters on two of my tanks, I also have Whispers (which are my oldest models) as well as Aquaclears.

I like my penguin filters because of the low maintnance they provide. I keep some sponges and floss in thre but with the bio wheel I dont have to clean a lot of media. The only thing I don't like about them is the impellers are touchy and getting them to start back up is a pain sometimes. Overall a good filter.

My Aquaclears are great I like these the most and they can hold a crap load of media which is great for my overstocked community and my Cichlid tanks. I would recommend this filter to anyone.

My whispers have been up and running for over 6 years with no problems what so ever. They dont have a lot of room for media choice but are very durable and reliable.

I also like canisters I have only ever used Renas I have an xp2 and xp3 they haven't given me any problems and are very easy to use and clean with excellent media capacity.