Any 3rd party Eheim Ecco Filter Sponge

[crazyfish]

Hi

Looking for cheaper alternative. Any recommendation of using cheaper 3rd party sponge filter for Eheim Ecco instead of original?

[valice]

You referring to the white filter wool?
I just bought those normal white fine wool you see hanging from the top of C328 and cut them to size and stuff it into my Eheim 2213 filter...

[crazyfish]

does that have equally good filtration compared with original eheim(blue and white wool)? Using the DIY wool, how often do you change compare with original eheim?

[valice]

To me, there isn't much of a difference... Imagine you have a not so fine wool but stacked 2 to 3 layers and 1 piece of Eheim fine wool...

Is the end result the same? Personally, I think it is... Except that the outflow might be abit slower for me, as the wool became too fine...

For the blue sponge, I am not sure how many does the Ecco series comes with. But for my 2213, I substituted most of the blue sponge with ceramic rings and Eheim Substrate... So only used 1 and have 3 extra not used or changed...

[crazyfish]

thank valice.

will give a try on the DIY wool.