[AquaticLife] Power Filters—again!
They are a relatively new product. You might have to do some Googling. Just Google - smartheater review - or - smartheater complaint - and see what comes up. Usually adding the main word and complaint will find you all of the posted complaints on the product and unless there are thousands of complaints about the same thing, I wouldn’t put much merit on just one or two published complaints unless they are well articulated and referenced.
I imagine that the intake filter screen/strainer on the SmartHeater could get clogged on occasion just like the intake screen/strainer on any filter system could get clogged.. especially if one has live plants. Other than that, I imagine when you do filter maintenance on an HOB, you would leave the SmartHeater in the tank so you could swoosh it to make sure there’s no leaves or debris blocking the intake strainer. On a canister, if you don’t see any slow down on water flow, you can assume the intake isn’t blocked.
While the SmartHeater might be a good invention by Rena, the SmartFilter HOB isn’t. The SmartFilter employs using a specialized filter cartridge which doesn’t look easy to modify or clean for reuse so they’re trapping people into changing the filter cartridges on a monthly basis, thus putting their tanks into mini-cycles every month. Good for filter sales, bad for fish!
Lenny Vasbinder Fish Blog - http://GoldLenny.blogspot.com (Links to articles referenced above listed on the right side under Archives - Year, Month and under Labels)
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