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Zoo Med 501 Turtle Canister Filter | 
 enlarge | Brand: ZooMed
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $139.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 46675
Media: Misc.
Size: Filter is 3 1/2" x 5.9" x 6 1/2" high.
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.5
MPN: TC-30
UPC: 097612023206
EAN: 0097612023206
ASIN: B0002DIRPU
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Filter is 3 12" x 5.9" x 6 12" high. | | • | This unit has a one year warranty from the date of purchase. |
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Product Description
Keep your turtles habitat sparkling with Zoo Meds new Turtle Clean 501. Clean water is essential to the health of all aquatic and semi-aquatic turtle species, and the 501 traps suspended particulate waste, removes odor and chemicals with activated carbon, and breaks down organic toxins with a biological filtration section. The Turtle Clean 501 filter is also great for vivariums, box turtle pools, and aquariums up to 30 gallons.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 OK, not great February 19, 2008
I've been running this filter for two weeks in a 20g tank with a small turtle. It is easy to set up, but I am not thrilled by how it keeps the water in the tank. There just isn't enough water flow, so you wind up having to dis-attach the upflow just to clean out the places in the tank where waste accumulates. I like it better than all the in tank options I've tried, though. It's a lot like a Rena XP3 (which I have on a bigger tank). I just wish it had a little more of its power.
 The Perfect filter if you only need it for a month January 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bought this one to replace the 318 that wasn't quite cutting it and within a month all but two of the suction cups holders have broken and now the filter itself runs but doesn't pump the water in or out. The pump worked fine at first but about every 3 days it would just stop pumping and we'd have to resetup the whole thing which got very frustrating. I would not recommend this product or this company as the 318 which we were replacing also has stopped working. We bought the 318 in late September and the 501 late October and both stopped working by christmas. I DO NOT RECOMEND THIS PRODUCT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 not worth the money October 2, 2007
I bought this filter after reading the mixed reviews, I side with the people that find it does not work well. I wish I could return it. I also agree with the using regular charcoal chips instead of buying the premade smooth bags, helps it work better but I am still changing water every few days due to odor and mess.
 Great little filter for small tanks September 9, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased it for a 20 gallon turtle tank. It has two chambers. One with the carbon container and ceramic pieces and the other chamber contains a hard foam wheel.
The unit draws and returns clear water very nicely. As an experiment, I removed the foam wheel and filled the chamber with polyester filer fiber, the stuff you use in a regular filter. To my amazement, the unit now filters small particles 3-5 times better than the foam wheel did, so this is what I now use. The bag containing the carbon can be replaced with a nylon stocking filled with the carbon you buy at a pet store, no need to buy the OEM.
This filter works better if you have a normal rectangular aquarium, since it will need to be in the center of the tank for optimum filtration. It would not work as well in a long tank as there is not enough water current to move far away particles to the filer.
Overall, for the money, it's one teriffic filter, happy I got it.
With the addition of the filter fiber, it does the job even better.
I highly recommend this filter.
I found the secret for this filter. August 25, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This product has had strangely mixed reviews, from exuberant to downright hate mail. I bought it because I thought that the other canister filter I was considering would be too powerful and would churn up the water too much for my small turtles.
When you test a filter, you can't just look at the water and say it works great; you have to test the water. Believe me, the turtles can tell the difference when there is a high ammonia content. You would too, if you were swimming in your own pee!
I've had this filter for 4 weeks. The first three weeks I could get no bio filtration at all, and the ammonia stayed at a high level. Then for the last week the filter has worked great and my ammonia is down at zero.
So I can highly recommend this product for a small tank normally used for baby turtles. What I do NOT recommend is the carbon inserts that go with the product! The insert is basically a disposable bag of activated carbon that is machined into smooth pellets. These pellets do a horrible job of absorbing the organics that they are supposed to control.
In the third week, I went to the aquarium store, bought a nylon bag, and filled it with over-the-counter activated carbon. These are basically raw chips of coal. The rough sides of the coal provide ample porous surface area for absorption. Also the activated carbon at the pet store comes a lot cheaper than the 501 carbon inserts.
You don't know clean water until you see the difference between the pellets and the activated carbon chips; you'll see the difference in just one day. But what's more important is that one week later, my ammonia is down to zero.
Turtles create a LOT of ammonia. With the right carbon, this filter will do the job. The proof is in the testing.
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