Cheapest Eheim ECCO External Canister Filter 2236

Eheim=LEAKS
This long time Eheim fan has thrown in the wet towel! After too many leaks to count and customer service that won't sell you a one dollar o-ring to fix a 30 dollar assembly (or even tell you the specification of that o-ring) it's my opinion that Eheim has lost their pride. If you buy Eheim canisters, don't forget to size a bucket to keep it in... All my opinion, of course.

Fantastic Filter
This is my first month with the Ecco 2236 for my 55 Gallon Tank. I have a fully stocked shark tank and it keeps the water clean so long as I siphon 25% of the water once a week.

** Outstand ** I strongly recommend
I would strongly recommend this canister filter to anyone. My simple filter (not canister) died & during the holiday weekend, no stores were open. A neighbor who had just moved in & was getting setup (no fish yet for him) said I could borrow his Eheim 2236. Keep in mind my 55 Gallon tank maybe a little over stocked with all the fish, plans, snails, and other things I have living in it & my filer had died maybe 2 days before, without me knowing it.

This little baby cleaned house in only a few hours!!!! This is a must buy for anyone who wants to keep a healthy tank.

One of the best so far.!
We've had aquatic turtles for about a year now, that we keep in a 75 gallon aquarium. (soon moving to a 125gal. tank) Anybody that keeps turtles knows how much work can be involved in keeping their tank clear and clean. When we first started we were unsure of what we needed to do the job but we knew we needed something that could keep up with the demand turtles require in water filtration. Our inquires at the local pet supply store led us to use a Fluval canister system. This is also a great system but after a short time we came to realize that it just wasn't enough so we went out and got a Marineland Magnum 350 to compliment the Fluval. Between the two the tank was adequately filtered, but cleaning the Magnum was a pain, the Fluval was a little easier but still not as user friendly as the Eheim. Because filtration was just adequate we started feeding the turtles in a separate smaller tank to try and minimize food and turtle feces from the main tank. This helped quite alot but we still required yet another filtration system as we had moved the Fluval to the smaller tank. This is when we purchased the Eheim 2236 system. This filter in my opinion is much easier to maintain than he Magnum and Fluval systems. The only down side is priming the pump after cleaning as the self priming feature does not work as well as the others but it is, by far, much much easier to disassemble and clean than the other two. Had the priming mechanism worked better I would have given this a 5/5. This is our second Eheim 2236. We had to replace the original because our child did not reestablish water flow after a cleaning, and the pump head overheated and died.

WORKS WELL FOR SALTWATER TANKS, EASY TO CLEAN
I own the Eheim Ecco External Canister Filter and use it with a medium size saltwater tank. It does a great job and only needs cleaned about once every 2-3 weeks and it's very easy to clean. It has very long hoses so you can hide it out of sight which is really nice. This unit is extremely quiet as well. This is a very good system for the price.