Powerful, Quiet, Superb Quality, Very Inexpensive for Such Power
Very powerful, very quiet. Easy to prime. Easy to hook up. Did not leak nor vibrate. Incredible water flow. In fact, smaller fish 'blow' across the tank when they swim near the output! Fortunately many of them seem to enjoy it and 'play' in the currents!
4 huge drawers hold as much filter media as you could ever want. I was in the unfortunate situation of an fish-in cycle and was battling ammonia and nitrites for over a month. I had in the 1st tray; 1 coarse, 1 medium and 1 fine filter pads, 1 tray of biological media, a tray of carbon and another of zeolite.
After the tank was fully cycled, I replaced the zeolite with more bio media and it quickly matured and I saw no ammonia or nitrites at all. I'll most likely replace the carbon with still more bio media. The 704b is filtering a fully stocked, 65 gallon cichlid tank at present. Almost nothing I can do that disturbs the tank leaves water cloudy more than a few hours.
It seems very well buiolt too. I think it's the best deal in canisters around.
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