if you have the know how to use filter media (sponge and bio benificial bacteria grabing stone supplied and should be suffient to balance nitrates amonia and nitrites as well as waste. Just my opinion based of my own experience with it, If there's someone using these filters on discus setups without having to clean them religiously, I would love to know their tactics.I'm a DIY guy who likes to save money, and have healthy clear fish tanks! This design is capable of saving you money in the long term as well as now with a great price. I think it is a great filter, and I don't plan on taking it off of my flowerhorn's setup anytime soon, but I have found it is not well suited for myself in a tank with a large bioload or lots of feeding going on that you typically see in a discus tank (especially in a growout situation). I clean my Aquaclears on my discus setups maybe once every other week or once a month (because my prefilters are catching most of the debris) If I were to be using the Tidal on the same setups with the same feeding regiment, I would be cleaning it out every other day if not more. The tidal has 3 different water inlets, only 2 of which I was able to get a prefilter on, because of this, smaller bits of uneaten food get into the inlet without the prefilter and cause it to get very dirty, very very fast. Why so?I feed a varied diet of Blackworms, Beefheart, Flakes and Aquabites (small pellets) - feeding 3 to 5 times a day. All in all, if you are a discus keeper and you have been using Aquaclears, I would stick to them.just my 2cents. If you have a tank where you are feeding a lot of worms, FDBW or bloodworms, or even a beefheart mix that tend to dissolve.I would stick to the Aquaclear. I see a very big difference in water clarity in my Tidal tank compared to my Aquaclear tank. However, this leaves the middle inlet open, and I haven't found a good way to attach a pre-filter to it.so if you are feeding worms of any kind, they will get into the filter and you will have to clear it more frequently.īasically, if you have a tank where you are feeding mostly floating pellets or sinking, this filter is very very good and I recommend it (As long as you have a prefilter on the skimmer). I found it necessary to have a pre-filter on the inlet tube, as well as one around the skimmer, I attached the one on the skimmer with fishing line. It will pull water from 3 different areas of the water column, however, if you are like me and tend to use a pre-filter sponge.this complicates things. So, if you don't already know, the Tidal has 3 water inlets, vs the 1 inlet on the Aqualcear.this is good and bad. This thread got a good amount of views but no replies, so, I thought I'd give my personal review of the Seachem Tidal 110 after about 2 months of use.Īs I stated above, I'm a longtime user and fan of Aquaclears, I'm also naturally a skeptic.so all of the hype that came with the Tidal filters had me weary.ĭown to the nitty-gritty, I basically had 2 tanks setup with similar bio-loads, 1 tank with an Aquaclear 110 and 1 tank with the Tidal 110 (Neither were Discus setups).
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