Junk filter not worth the money had it working fine for about 3 months and then it crapped had to buy a new filter did not go with this junk

Don't waste your money had it about 3 months no flow cleaned it out and the tubes same no flow i know its about price point but this isn't worth $50 not when you have to buy one every couple of months your better off buying a fluval or anything but this

Bought it mid January and it failed 2 months later, started off great, now there is no flow, seems the impeller broke. Now it is out of the return window. I'm stuck looking at other options.

I have one of these that I purchased used as part of a complete running setup from a gentleman that was moving. I have it for a year and a half. The guy said he bought it several years ago. This is my quandary. I gave this 3 stars only based on the recent reviews. The older reviews seem quite positive. My personal experience of using the used product has been great and I would have it easily given it 5 stars. I had nothing but good results using the aqueon in fact great results. Now to my quandary part. I was going to buy a new one this week, especially with Petco having this on sale. But I am nervous that something changed in the design or production that is resulting in all of the negative reviews which all appear to me as recent and the older reviews seem to all be positive. Maybe I did not read enough reviews, but from what I did read the trend is great product 4-5 years ago and problems encountered by customers who purchased more recently. I currently maintain 29 fish tanks and 2 tubs. Every tank I purchased is an aqueon fish tank from anywhere between 5 1/2 gallons up to 75 gallons. With my wife joining me in retirement we want to set up 3 55 gallon tanks and 2 40 breeders, so I am going to have needs for new filtration systems. And when I saw the sale, I figured I buy it now and have it ready when I set up the tanks. I would love to be able to clone the one I am using because it works so well. Unless I am reading too much into this I am leery. Perhaps someone on the Aqueon team can shed some light on this, especially since some of the reviews do not have a response from Aqueon. I am not trying to besmirch the product or am playing games. Hence why I am trying to be sincere and give it 3 stars because I do not own a current model, but I do own and am highly pleased with the product made by Aqueon that is much older based on how I obtained the canister filter. Keep up the great work on the fish tanks and accessories that I constantly but. Any kind of reply here of to my personal email regarding my concern would truly be appreciated.

Leaks.. I changed the height of it.. thought the siphon pressure was too much… the primer is sorta weird. This was my first canister. And I was certainly not impressed.

I bought this filter a couple months ago. I cleaned it a couple of times and it worked great until today. I did turn it off cleaned and it doesn’t want to star again.

It is OK, but worse than a brand I bought for half the price. No prime pump, the priming system used is OK but can be messy. I'm using this in a 14 gallon cube shrimp tank and the pressure is so low I don't have to do anything to reduce it. I added a prefilter with 4 stages, an inline UV light, inline heater. My chiller is separate and has its own pump. I expected a lot more when my 29 gallon has a no name canister filter with built in UV light and a prime pump. I ran it through a AquaClear 50 for discharge. The two filters combined cost less than this one by over $25 and does more, pumps more water even though it is rated at 25 gph less. Was just underwhelmed by the head to head comparison of my two systems.

This filter is the greatest because the return goes into a hang on the back filter not the loose flimsy tubes that never stay in place