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Eheim diffusor "pop"
At 12:46 PM 9/20/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I bought an eheim diffuser a year and a half back and tried it out. After
>a day or
>two, it "popped" and killed a tank of fish. I don't use them now.
I do not doubt that this happened to Erik. And I am sorry he lost his fish.
The Eheim is a pretty high tolerance device for an airstone (which is close
to all it is). And it must be assembled carefully. If you don't I am
sure you can get really bad results. That said, with hundreds and
hundreds sold (not MacDonalds yet), his is the only one I have heard of
popping. And since he has never shown me the pieces or pictures of them, I
have no idea what happened in his case.
I stand by the reliability of the system I sell. I believe it has had, in
general, no more product failures than the same number of more expensive
systems.
Someone said that my FAQ page "favored" the system I sell. I will agree
it describes it favorable. But the favorable description is not because I
sell it, I sell it because it is good. I don't need to sell a CO2 system,
I spend more on dinners out than I make on CO2 system sales. I sell them
because I think our hobby needs a good, fairly priced system. And it
seems like the vast majority of my customers agree.
There are better systems out there. But I don't think there are better
values, altho I agree that this last is definitely a matter of
opinion. If I had $5K worth of fish I don't think I would run one of my
systems without additional hardware like a pressure relief device. As it
is I have $500 worth, and I definitely run one of my own systems.
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Dave Gomberg, San Francisco mailto:gomberg at wcf_com
NEW Planted Aquaria Magazine: http://www.wcf.com/pam
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