Replacement For Marina I110 Filter?

So my tank came with a Marina i110 filter.
Apart from being very oddly designed (see below), it also is noisy.
Any ideas for a (very quiet) replacement?
Tank is a 60l Marina Vue 60.

So the deisgn is that the impeller sucks up water at the bottom of the unitr and pumps it upward, it comes out in the middle of a media cartridge, then through a 'bio screen' and out.
The media cartridge seems to have the finest media (and charcoal) in the middle, then a thin layer of foam.  The bio screen is a large (1mm+) plastic mesh.
Is it just me or should the filter be: large mesh then foam then charcoal then out - trapping different sized particles as it goes?
This filter seems to be the wrong way around to me - very fine filter first will trap everything, very quickly clogging up.  Foam will keep some bacteria but thats about it.  Bio screen does nothing!

And it's noisy.  Have tried putting some silicone gel around the impeller houseing, may put more in to see if it helps.
Might also try putting some sponge type filter material in, then the existing media folded up (so that water still passes through it) and get rid of the bio screen!  Only problem is it is open topped so would need to fix it all in somehow.

Thanks for reading this far!  Any suggestions? 

I had that filter for a while. I kept in the plastic bioscreen but replaced the cartridge with foam.

In addition to Sue's excellent suggestions, another few options might be as at Reply #25 in https://forums.thinkfish.co.uk/catfish/bronze-corys-keep-dying-bad-stock-or-am-i-doing-anything-wrong/25/ or the next model/size up in each brand.

How are you cycling the tank? It is normal to have the filter in the tank at the beginning of cycling to give the bacteria somewhere to grow.

How are you cycling the tank?

if you've got the plants and there are a good number of them you can do a plant cycle which means waiting until the plants are actively growing before adding fish a few at a time.
You mentioned plants in an earlier post - what species, and how many plants do you have?

Without plants, or with only a few slow growers, you need to do a fishless cycle. Last time I did one, it took 7 weeks.




I hope you've dropped enough hints about what fish you want so she knows what to get  . The danger with fish as presents is they may be wrong for the tank or the water or just 2 shoaling fish etc.

Fishless cycling involves adding ammonia to 3 ppm when certain targets have been reached; a fishless cycle requires several ammonia additions.

However your tank does look to have enough live plants for a silent/plant cycle as long as you take things slowly. Make sure ammonia and nitrite are both zero before adding the first fish, and check the levels daily after each addition to make sure they stay at zero.

Sorry, I was just sitting in a crumpled heap after finishing two water changes (2 tanks) when I typed my replies and my brain was on autopilot 


50% changes on a 180 litre tank using buckets are exhausting. The tap won't accommodate a hose, and a python-type device is out of the question anyway as with that all the "dirty bacteria ridden water" would go down the sink 

Should never have used the word bacteria where my husband could hear it........

So I got the Eheim Pickup 160 last night, just about managed to put the media from the Marina filter in as well as its own!  It fits in the tank nicely, have angled the head to point right (as we look at it in the pic) - and is quieter than the Marina filter so everyone is happy!

Lots more flow, even on lowest setting, and media I am much more familiar with (a big sponge!)
I'll give it a few weeks then remove the old media.  A month left until the earliest I plan to get fish, until then I get to enjoy the plants waving in the current. 

Looks good, thanks for the photos, can’t wait to see the tank develop 

Too much light can encourage algae. And I would feed the plants - if they grow better, they'll out-compete the algae.

Another trick is floating plants, if the plants lower down in the water can cope with reduced lighting, as this will also reduce the light they algae are getting.

Two good liquid fertilisers - Seachem Flourish Comprehensive Supplement and TNC light. The companies make other plant products with similar names, you don't want those.