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whats the best filter for a 5 gallon tank2007-11-24 23:43:28

i bought a 5 gallon tank at a local fish store and i was wondering what is the best filter product out there to buy that includes a bio wheel?

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You can use a Marineland Penguin Mini with Bio-Wheel. It's recommended for 5 - 15 Gallon tanks. It's a hang on the tank power filter and it's available at virtually all outlets that carry aquarium filtration products.

Here's a review from Epinions:

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Get a whisper filter, but get one for a 10 gallon tank.

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It depends on the fish you plan to keep. Its a small tank and you don't want turbulence to cause stress for your fish. Being a small tank you are probably planning on keeping small fish that may be sucked up by an external mechanical filter so I recommend you use a sponge filter driven by a moderate flowing airpump and replace 20% of the water with aged water three times a week.

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Any undergravel filter should work for a 5 gal tank.

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whiper filter go to petsmart they have ones for 5 gallon tanks

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I would use a Hagen AquaClear filter. I also have a tank with a Whisper and that seems to work well too.

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I'm not aware of many hanging tank filters with a dry/wet wheel that are intended for a 5 gallon tank. The are some good in hood ones, but they come with the tank. 5 gallon tanks are hard to filter well, and generally you'll need do weekly water changes. I'd get a sponge, box or corner filter. Make sure it has a separate sponge filter, and carbon filter. Otherwise your biological filter restarts from zero when you change the carbon filter.