OASE Indoor Aquatics Filtosmart Thermo 100

Power not compatible with GCC

The best aspects of this filter are its noise level - pretty darn quiet, and its relatively small form factor. The best thing about it is the heater in the filter canister removing the sight-polluting heating element from the aquarium - a HUGE plus in my book. Filter is not silent. My house is very quiet, but I can hear it now as I type this review out. It is a very, very low, slight mechanical drone - not at all offensive. The not-so-great: Priming this filter is inconvenient - have to take the heater off, pour water into the little hole until it's somewhere *near* the top, but you can't fill it too much, because then when you put the heater back in, water will spill everywhere. The spraybar and intake are not pretty to look at, which brings the overall package down a notch in my view. Why build a filter to get an ugly piece of equipment out of the tank, then include a butt-ugly intake and spray bar? Something more elegant would be much more ideal. Not sure how I like the bio-media tray surrounding the heater. The space there is limited, and if you have previously colonized, larger bio media, not much of it will fit in the space there. You really have to use Oase's small bio media due to the limited size of that chamber if you want to use the middle chamber for other media types (like floss, Chemipure packets, etc). These niggles aside, this product is very well made and inspires confidence in this brand. So much so, in fact, that I just bought their little nano surface skimmer.

Una de las mejores compras, desde el empaque se nota la calidad. Llevo un año con el filtro y funciona muy bien, mantiene limpio el estanque casero que construí a mis tortugas. Es un excelente producto de OASE.

Very quiet filter and easy set up. So happy I purchased the filter with the heater built in, saves a lot of room in my small 10 gallon. This filter has a good range for intake and return water flow rate, easy to adjust. The intake pipe is a little too long for my tank but it would be very easy to cut the plastic pipe to size or attach a lily pipe set for a more seamless look. All in all, wonderful filter and I look forward to putting it to use in a larger tank one day.

La instalación no fue tan complicada como esperaba, la opción de tener el calentador dentro del filtro es fantástica. Es demasiado silencioso y no sólo en las noches en pleno silencio se alcanza a percibir. Fue algo tardado echarlo a andar, pero después de ello todo funciona a la perfección. No dudes en adquirirlo, vale la pena cada peso.

I knew OASE was a good company for filters but i did not know they were this good! They give you everything you need in the box including hoses that are plenty long. I love the fact that this filter also has a heater built right into it! (you can save so much space in your tank). It is also VERY QUITE! I use to have a hang on the back filter and i thought that thing was quite, BUT MAN, this one is ultra quite. Priming it took a bit longer than i thought but that was only the first time and it was fine ever since. They also give you ample media and HIGH QUAILTY sponges. Last thing about this filter is that you can tell that the company uses high precision machines and materials to make their products. Stuff that normally breaks on other filters simply wouldn't on this. Great filter!