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If you're worried about water movement with the canister's just install power heads and save yourself the trouble of having an extra filter to maintain and clean.

Canister's don't have insane flow rates, but the bioload they can handle is HUGE...

I think most are designed with either marine tanks ...

Erm, for the record.

I've bred and kept apistogramma for almost 10 years - mostly in tanks with 10x per hour turnover rates.

They don't mind strong currents - if you're going to be using a stronger current I would suggest some of the heartier breeds though. Such as Njisseni or Panduro.

Ideally ...

Thanks for the replies, I think I'll scratch the clowns and go with some dwarfs instead. =)

Canister's are the way to go in my opinion.

Way back when all we had were air powered sponge filters, HOB's are too noisy and can be quite a mess.

Check around on E-Bay for an Eheim canister filter, you can generally get a good price and they are whisper quiet. But they aren't cheap by a long shot ...

You won't find them in your average LFS but anything out of the apistogramma species of dwarf cichlids and/or blue ram cichlids are both very colorful and too small to pick on clown loach, although you will see quite a bit of action out of the two!

http://www.southernapistos.com has a good stock ...

Forgive me if this topic is like beating a dead horse, but when I did a search for the information I came up with so many unrelated topics that I figured I would ask the experts and get specific information to my own personal situation.

I'm a long time fish keeper, going on 15 years now. I've been ...