My betta was stressed with the common lily pipe, and when I changed it to Poppy, she swims very happily in the tank without any issues. I ended up getting a Glass lily pipe (shape of the pipe is named 'Poppy'), and that worked amazing. I have a betta fish so I was initially concerned about too much flow from a canister filter. P.S., just because I found no information about this anywhere on the net. I ended up putting in a ton of seachem matrix for the bio filter, and also coarse sponge layered with fine sponge and Seachem Purigen, and the water is really nice and clear. It's very easy to remove the hoses and runs really quiet. I do enjoy the canister filter that I am using very much. Sorry I couldn't really give you a review of my experience of it since I didn't use it. When they both arrived, I took a look at both filters, and decided that I liked the additional space I get from the canister filter (and the fact I could hide the canister under the tank), so I never actually ended up installing the Tidal 55. What happened was, I purchased the Tidal 55 from amazon, and then kept thinking about whether or not I'd get enough filtration and water flow in the tank, so then I also purchased an Oase Filtosmart 200 canister filter at the same time. So actually in the end, I went with a canister filter. Hello I should have replied to this thread after all the feedback that I received here. Its the same but 1 step faster for the 35 and hopefully the same for the 55. after step 4 you should have access to the skimmer area where you can cram whatever you want in there to either close it off entirely or pre-filter it. You just have to do it differently.ĮDIT: Here's seachem's instructions for disassembly of the 75 and 110. I've heard a lot of people say you can't prefilter this HOB but I think its because they lack imagination :). If you pop the motor out (really easy) you can fill the void behind the 'skimmer' section with sponge (I used the coop sponge) to prefilter and keep fish, fry, and shrimp out.

I have the 35 which is the same but missing the downward tube. Would the slits be too big in the tidal 110 that a neon tetra could be sucked in? I have 10 neons in there right now and am worried about them getting sucked in I see that the tidal filter has the skimmer intake, which I will not be able to add a sponge to like I can with the bottom intake.

Seachem tidal 110 review