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I have a 60p and have always been frustrated with the feeling that any amount of equipment in it seems to take up so much room and look ugly.
I was watching a George Farmer video today HERE and he is stuffing the CO2 and heater into a HOB filter. The only thing in the tank is filter intake.
In the US, you can get an Oase HOB with heater built in. All I'd need to add is CO2.

My main concern, based on his video, is that I don't want the filter pushing out tons of CO2 bubbles. I want it dissolved first. I like pearling, but I don't like the fizzy look from CO2 mist. There is a difference. I supposed I could put the diffuser behind the filter media. The CO2 would hopefully dissolve as it goes through the mesh.

Anyone done this? Alternate recommendations? I don't have any experience with Oase HOB filters. Thoughts? Is there room for something like Purigen?

Thanks,
Ben
 
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Count Krunk said:
Dont want a canister? I'm a big fan of aqua clear hob filters.
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I have one, (it's a long thought process that I don't want to type out) but.....
1. I think that is part of the problem Ive always had with this tank is that it is just too much flow for such a small tank.
2. With a canister filter I'd be back to more stuff in the tank.
 
I assume you toss a valve on the canisters filter return line. Adjust it down. And you can run co2 through that as well. With that you would just have 2 things in the tank vs the 1 of a hob.

I'm not sure if there are many hobs with built in heaters.
 
Count Krunk said:
I assume you toss a valve on the canisters filter return line. Adjust it down. And you can run co2 through that as well. With that you would just have 2 things in the tank vs the 1 of a hob.

I'm not sure if there are many hobs with built in heaters.
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Yeah, I've put an inline CO2 difuser on the cannister.
 
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