has any body ever heard of this

has any one ever heard of this product or used it http://www.ecoaqualizer.com/aquarium_filter/products.php

Those have been around for years. They are nothing more than a tube with magnets. Waste of money if ya ask me.

thanks i have never heard of them

No prob just hate to see someone waste their money.

Terry wrote:

No prob just hate to see someone waste their money.

it looks like a waste of money my father inlaw bought one he said it worked but he is a newbie at fish tanks. i thought it was something new.

Nothing can beat a good ole fashioned water change.

thats what i beleive in old school if its not broke why fix it thats my thoughts lol

Ya kinda looks like snake oil to me.....

what is this "snake oil" you speak of.
im very interested in this stuff!

snake oil

A product that has been proven to not live up to the vendor's marketing hype. The term comes from the 1800s in which elixirs and potions of all kinds, even ones that supposedly included the oils from snakes, were sold as a cure for everything that ailed a person.
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Snake oil is a traditional Chinese medicine made from the Chinese water snake (Enhydris chinensis), which is used to treat joint pain. However, the most common usage of the phrase is as a derogatory term for compounds offered as medicines that implies that they are fake, fraudulent, quackish, or ineffective. The expression is also applied metaphorically to any product with exaggerated marketing but questionable or unverifiable quality or benefit.
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The snake oil peddler became a stock character in Western movies: a travelling "doctor" with dubious credentials, selling some medicine (such as snake oil) with boisterous marketing hype, often supported by pseudo-scientific evidence, typically bogus. To enhance sales, an accomplice in the crowd (a shill) would often "attest" the value of the product in an effort to provoke buying enthusiasm. The "doctor" would prudently leave town before his customers realized that they had been cheated. This practice is also called "grifting" and its practitioners are called "grifters".

The practice of selling dubious remedies for real (or imagined) ailments still occurs today, albeit with some updated marketing techniques. Claims of cures for chronic diseases (for example, diabetes mellitus) for which there are reputedly only symptomatic treatments available from evidence-based medicine are especially common.[citation needed] The term snake oil peddling is used as a derogatory term to describe such practices.

looks like a waste of time and money to me. would not advise getting one

awwwww, i wanted some snake oil, it sounded cool.

I could sell ya some

There are so many wonder devices and cure all meds on the market......Some actually work for a while.

I believe good tank maintenance and reasonable water changing is the best bet and you won't need all the fancy gizmos.

Hahaha. I loved you comment on 'snake oil' Fern.

Thank you guys for knowing what snake oil meant!!!!

CajunGator wrote:

pass out the SNAKE OIL!!!

sounds wrong