I'm such a geek.

I watched the FedEx tracking and saw that my FX5 was delivered at 10:03am today - so I ran home and brought it to work so I could play with it.

So...here are the pics of me getting it ready...

Before...Note four ugly intakes and two outputs.


Here's the FX5 in all it's little pieces...


Here it is being seeded with all the dirt media from the other old filters...


All done & ready to be put in place...


Set in place & ready to fill with water...




Lid on...


Hoses connected & running...


Purging air....


For a size comparison, here it is next to a Magnum 350...


And next to a 12oz Killians Irish Red. (I might have killed a few of these during the installation) I now call Killians "Filter Fuel."


It really was pretty easy & fast. It's very quiet & seems to be running fine.

Killian's

PERONI IS BETTER!!!!


That Magnum looks familiar.

Actually - that's the Magnum I got before I bought the other from you. I was running two...plus a whisper 60 and an Emperor 400.

And no bad mouthing Killians!

What is that hole in the wall near the base board? Was that Killian's induced?

Killian's is okay for an AMERICAN beer. Just glad to see you're not drinking cold piss.

And what country are you from? Ireland...or the land of cold piss?

You do not want to get into a "world beers" discussion with me, Ms. Rice Bowl. I've drank them all. Maybe we should all get together for a taste test some time????

Clunk....start searching for cheap flights.

and is good, too.

And the hole...was...well...nevermind. It's an old hole. I call it the "power hole."

No jokes.

Looking good Gary. Filter's not bad to install is it? I can't believe they send a how-to dvd. LMAO.............

Now what are you going to do with all those filters your not using?

I'm looking for a few.............

I think I'm keeping one of the Magnum 350's on it - to run as a polisher with the diatom.

I upgraded my kid's whisper 30 to a whisper 60. So that leaves me with a Magnum 350, an Emperor 400 biowheel, his old whisper 30, and a couple whisper 60's.

Might wind up keeping one whisper 60 for my 55...but I'm open to suggestions on the others.

And the setup is pretty slick. I watched the DVD just to be safe, but you really didn't need it for setup. I do like that it has manitenance on the DVD since it's pretty different to maintain than all my past filters.

So far I'm loving it! I put a bunch of my old gunky media in it to help seed it & will leave one of the magnums running for a week or so until I'm convinced the FX5 is good and colonized.

It has a nice quiet hum to it & although it pumps out a huge amount of water, it doesn't disturb the surface much at all. The damn thing's a monster, though. It barely fit in the hole in the front of my stand. I had to tilt it at the right angle - like pushing a big couch through a small doorway.

I don't know why a filter excites me so much...but I'm really psyched about this thing. It's really cool.

I do love mine as well. I had 3 of them at 1 point running on different tanks


Please let me know what you decide to rid of filter wise. I just picked up 4 new 75 gallon tanks that need some loving

For sure I can get rid of one Magnum, the Emperor, at least one whisper 60 - and the smaller whisper 30.

Call me this weekend or PM me if you'd like any of them.

I'll try all the Budweiser!!!

I know Killians is American. Like you said - it's on the label.

I just polished off a Fischer's Amber (German) - that's nice, too.

Also like Boddington's....good stuff. So where & when's the tasting????

I don't have enough room for everyone at my place, plus, most of everyone would be sitting on the floor.