What is a filter on the tank?
hang on a tank or H.O.T. The filter can provide mechanical, biological and chemical filtration in the aquarium. This is called the hanging filter on the tank because it hangs on the rear wall of the aquarium, while the filter itself external to the tank. The entrance tube extends inside the aquarium that pulls water into the body of the filter, where it passes through various media before returning to the tank. The small circulatory cycle engine pulls the water into the filter, where it first passes through the foam pad. This eliminates large residues such as non -deny food, waste or pieces of plant matter, providing mechanical filtration.
The water also passes through a filter bag that usually holds the activated carbon. The activated carbon pulls out organic pollutants out of the water and further cleans it. This provides chemical filtration.
Finally, carbon and foam cushions provide a home for biological bacteria that help clean water naturally, providing biological filtration.
Theoretically, a filter that provides all three types of filtration: mechanical, chemical and biological should be quite effective and these filters meet the purpose, but also have restrictions. For one, due to their relatively small size, even the largest hanging on the filter tank needs frequent maintenance. In particular, foam cushions must be rinsed regularly, which disrupts biological bacteria living there. Even debris in foam pads can inhibit bacterial colonies. The carbon must also be regularly fired and its bacterial colony. Although this positive bacterium also lives elsewhere in the tank, it is not an ideal situation.
As a result, Marineland suggested a tank hanging called biowheel.Biowheel has a paper chord drum that sits in the filter drainage. The water that emerges from the filter changes the drum in the same way and turns the wheel of the control boat. The paper drum is a host of bacterial colonies and never has to replace or clean. The rest of the filter is designed tradition. Now that the foam pads that provide mechanical filtration are flushed, or when the carbon is discarded, the filter does not lose its biological filter force, as most bacterial colonies live on a permanent biowheel drum.
Although biowheel has been dealing with the problem of improved biological filtration, hang on the tank filters lacking capacity necessary for highly efficient mechanical filtration. For this majority of aquarists, they turn to more expensive cans filters.
Marineland again decided to bridge this gap of other innovations that combine a hanging filter and canister. They call it H.O.T. Magnum. H.O.T. Magnum is hanging on a filter filter different design. It is basically a miniature container filter designed to hang the tank. H.O.T. Magnum is more robust than traditional suspension on tanks and is easy to maintain. It can also be used as a powerful vacuum. However, no hanging on the tank filter can compete with the standard canister filter thanks to the clear size of StandaRacing canister.
This does not mean that hang filters on the tanks do not have their place. The rule is, the more filtration, the better. For this reason, most aquarists use different filters for different purposes. Slight size to large tank with UGF or under gravel filter, suspension on the tank and standard canister is a common setting. UGF maintains residues pulled out of sight until it is vacuumed, it can hang a comfortable chemical filtration on the tank, which can be replaced frequently and easily, and the canister would provide highly efficient mechanical and biological filtration.
whether or not or the net will depend on the size of the tank, the amount of fish and many other factors. In almost all cases, the tank suspension is suitable as a primary filter or redundant. In addition, maintaining on the tank on the tank at hand for the hospital tank is also good use for these trusted filters.