HMF FILTER

[kaceyo]

I've also been considering it for a tank divider, with a breeding pair on each side. It looks much courser than the typical Hydro foam which makes me wonder if freeswimmers would get stuck or caught up in it. I would probably not use it as a biofilter though as they need to be cleaned frequently when feeding live bbs.
Dose it seem like the 2" thick stuff would hold up to large wc's etc in a 55gal tank?

Kacey

[moik]

Might want a lighter color of foam in a breeding set-up...

[William Palumbo]

Kaceyo, he does carry a light green color for Discus breeders, as I had mentioned to him about the dark colorations of the other foams possibly being a problem with Discus breeding. I am going to do the same with it as a tank divider between pairs myself. I think having it as a divider, and working like a filter, would not cause enough suction in any one place that could trap fry. It seems that the surface area would be too great to cause any serious suction. It is coarser than typical spong. I have the 2" foam, and it's made very well...not flimsy at all. When placed in the tank, the fit is tight and will not move unless YOU move it. I have it in my 55 and I make 75% or more water changes and it's just fine. Lots of body to it. To me it feels somewhat like the Aquaclear foam inserts...the bigger sized AC anyways...Bill

[William Palumbo]

I'm pretty sure it comes in different pore size as well. I'll have to double check the website...Bill

[kaceyo]

William,
It isn't so much the suction I am thinking of as being a problem as the course foam would have large enough open cells for the tiny freeswimmers to get caught up in. They tend to swim into every little nook and cranny and get stuck easily. If they come with a finer pore size, as you brought up, that could take care of the problem.

Kacey

[William Palumbo]

Kacey, I went to the site and he does list two pore sizes...

PPI= pores per inch
30 PPI=Fine
10PPI=Course

I'll have to try some of the fine sponge, at least for the breeder tanks...Bill

[kaceyo]

Sounds good. Let us know how it works if you get there before I do, and I'lldo the same.

Kacey

[Justice]

Kacey, I went to the site and he does list two pore sizes...

PPI= pores per inch
30 PPI=Fine
10PPI=Course

I'll have to try some of the fine sponge, at least for the breeder tanks...Bill

He also has 20 ppi in green here is a green 20ppi HMF in the right hand side of my 55 fry tank i think it blends in well with the blue paint, and also like You i took the strip i trimmed off and hid the gap between the tank wall and filter.

HMFgreen.jpg

[Justice]

Wow i just noticed how old the last post was after i posted bet i just gave out old info .....Sorry!

[William Palumbo]

LOL...Still a great filter!...You could probably put you heater behind the foam as well. I know certain heaters with longer tubes don't sit in there well. Gives the tank a nice clean look...I still have not tried it on my breeding tanks yet...Bill

[prat]

Funny to suddenly see this thread. I was looking at the same sort of thing yesterday on Angelsplus. They have a few videos of applications.
http://www.angelsplus.com/FiltersCustom.htm. Nice to see it recommended here. Guess I'll give one a try.

[Justice]

Funny to suddenly see this thread. I was looking at the same sort of thing yesterday on Angelsplus. They have a few videos of applications.
http://www.angelsplus.com/FiltersCustom.htm. Nice to see it recommended here. Guess I'll give one a try.

Here is another place to buy one http://www.swisstropicals.com/Poret%...Pricelist.html

LOL...Still a great filter!...You could probably put you heater behind the foam as well. I know certain heaters with longer tubes don't sit in there well. Gives the tank a nice clean look...I still have not tried it on my breeding tanks yet...Bill

Good idea Bill thanks, I did it!

[CrazyAngels]

To all those are awesome setups, thanks for sharing great info. Also it seems there are more choices in foam now than when the thread was started.

Jorge

[Skip]

so.. do you just have a air hose in the uptake tube? can you show a picture from side(end) view of the filter..? i would like to see how its put together.

[Justice]

so.. do you just have a air hose in the uptake tube? can you show a picture from side(end) view of the filter..? i would like to see how its put together.

the airline attaches to the Jetlifter tube The side of my tank is painted but here is a link showing the JetLifter tubes you can see where the airline attaches in the pic. ~HTH~

http://www.swisstropicals.com/Web%20...Jetlifters.jpg

Here is a link showing how it all goes togather with the exception that the HMF kits have the Jetlifter tubes now instead of the PVC tubes

http://www.swisstropicals.com/Poret%...er%20Kits.html