everybody how are you doing you have Mike and Sierra here. Today we're going
to do an unboxing video of the Eheim professional 4 plus canistr filter this
This here was sent to us by our friends at Eheim so we're going to do an
unboxing and review video for them
so I'm gonna let us here take a little bit here
ok so the canister we've been sent here was the eheim professional 4 + 350
they also have three other model sizes available it also comes in the 250 as
well as the 600 also comes in a few different versions so they also sell
thermal version with a built-in heater and they also have the electronic
version which you can actually control right from your pc which sounds really
cool
so with our specific one the Eheim pro 4 + 350
it's going to be rated for aquariums between 48 - 90 gallons
it's going to have a 5-liter media capacity which gives you lots of storage
and all the media is completely included which is awesome
it's going to run about two hundred and seventy eight gallons per hour so we're
hoping keeps the tank nice and clean so with this model you're going to notice a
few differences from the pro 3
so it now has a new extended function which we'll get into a little bit more
detail later and the look of its been completely redesigned so everything in
it is completely black down to the hoses as well as the intakes and outtakes
it's just a little bit more sleep in a little bit more discreet
so this model is also highly energy efficient using about 16 Watts of power which
is great
hopefully save on the energy bill and also
the three year warranty so we're going to put it to the test see how it stands
up and let's get to the unboxing
alright so what we have here said the e times what we're going to do is take it
out of the box
so with the top right away we're going to see we have our manual also looks
that we have hoes we're going to pull this out and you want to just grab the
whole bag
alright so we'll put it back down here and we will get it out of the bag
and it is quite heavy too with all the media inside of it so yeah I mean
just taking a look at just from the top here you will see you right away this is
the new extender valve
basically what it does is it redirects the flow of the output so if there's
anything getting clogged or jam down there that's reducing your output and
what's coming out you can do this basically it's an extended i'll give you
a little bit more time with it no forever but its gonna give you
a couple more days
exactly - So on top also see your primer here and you also have
your quick release as well
for your quick release yeah and the nice thing about this as a safety feature here are the
only way to get these valves are these actual hoses off is going to be one is
actually turned off if it's turned on here
you just won't be able to do it you just are not available won't come out
ya know if you push the button it just doesn't matter
well out so good feeling here has four handles on the side as well
one two three four take the top off
alright so before we begin here taking it apart
I'm just going to pull the last bit of stuff that's in the box so here we have
our spray bar
we have our down tube as well as this is the piece that goes on spring bar like
so we'll take it all apart was that a minute
so right here we have our first pre filter this is just a sponge
see it's just the sponge her next one
yes so our second tray here has another sponge up top and then you're going to
see me Eheim substrate pro so this is basically a biological media
has tons of poor so it should get pretty good surface area and capture a bunch of
good bacteria in the next tray here is Eheim's biomax so this is a combination
biological and mechanical media so it's going to capture particles but also hold
on the good bacteria at the same time and are final our final Tray has Eheim mac pro
pro so this knew that something you wouldn't see in the 3 series so this one
here is mechanical media but also has biological media as well just because of
the group's it has on it so it's still gonna hold on to get bacteria so yeah so
what we're going to do with these is we're going to give them a good rinse
just before we set this all up
alright so now that we have everything out here and see this spray bar have our
attachment here for our spray bar
these here are suction cups to hold everything in place and we also have
this locking clamp that goes
basically over here and your goal is to make sure that this never comes off
we also have these little things for the bottom
stop the vibration on the floor and we also have a end cap here for the spray bar
going to put this on right now and it is a little thing to get on but it to go on
perfectly
we also had this thing here in the bottom that this just basically locked
in there
but we are actually going to use this pre filter that came with
so instead of putting that on we're probably going to use this here
so how you connect what you have to do is I'm going to get cut off about an
inch inch-and-a-half a hose
so I'm going to do that now and my spray bar attaches in there like so so this
year is now good to go you can adjust to whatever you want when you get in the
water
it's totally up to you
so now that i have that done
probably the best thing to do next is to go over the hose now we move along a
piece of hose and the only real easy way to do this I think is probably cut the
hose in half so we now have two pieces those cut to length now Cut to even length I've seen some
people
I'm trying to put these pieces of his hoses on this connector here with on the
unit I really don't suggest doing that if you can hold it in your hand
it's probably the easiest and best way for you to get to put them on
i should also say on here it does tell you which ones coming in which was going
out just so you don't put them on the wrong way
so we're going to make sure here ok
it is now on one hundred percent so now what we're going to do is we're going to
put this clip on
so the pre filter is very easy to set up
just slide it on and like i said i had my Clips here for before these are going
to go to want to so let's take them hard
enter these on here and i really like these clips to just because they come
apart so when you're coming out of time to clean your tank and you want to pull
these things all out these clips are really awesome
alright so I've got my I've got my spray bar here right where I wanted and I have
my you have my intake here where it's going to be taking any dirt on the
bottom where I want to kind of in the middle of the tank
so now what I want to do is I just want to pull this extra slack out of the line
has definitely don't want that in there so I'm only going to leave it about two
inches of slack
I think that's about the best here
yeah
and now my spray bar is pretty much where I wanted to be like i said i've
only got a couple inches of slack and i also did pull my pump to the back of my
drawer here so I'm going to do the same now with my intake and all right so now
we got our slack out here we should be good to go
so that we're just going to go to back to the front and we're going to start
driving it and get it ready to go here
alright so we have our hoses can get now we shorted the bomb
everything is ready to go all we have to do now is give it a prime so i'm going
to make sure that i've turned on and
here we go he is starting to fill up hopefully you guys can see this here on
camera
that was a fairly simple process and we took me a couple of primes to get it
going and that looks like it's it
we have a lot of pressure and see my duty
yeah so we have water coming out the top here now let's start it up here and
we'll see how it goes
alright so what's running now
I think it looks great what do you think Sierra yeah like it looks like
it's actually moving around quite a bit of water it's putting quite a bit of
bubbles throughout the tank so we look forward to doing a review when it comes
time to the next clean out
yeah that's great so thank you guys for watching and you guys have yourself a
great day