Once upon a time, the Eheim 2011 was the shorty in the world famous line of Eheim canister filters. When power filters and larger tanks started to dwindle the market for small canisters, the 2011 was retired and the aquarium world was left to their own devices for filtering the 10-25 gallon range of aquariums. With the resurgence of small aquariums, nano tanks and lots and lots of planted tanks, Eheim saw the opportunity to bring back their petite canister filter and give it a makeover in the Eheim 2211. Rated at 80 gallons per hour with a power consumption of five watts, the Eheim 2211 is plenty of filtration for a whole host of small aquarium applications. Sure you could spend half of the estimated $80-90 msrp on internal and power filters but if space or aesthetics are a concern, the Eheim 2211 is a much better candidate. Furthermore, the much larger volume of the 2211 means that it can hold more mechanical and biological filter media, so you don’t have to get all up in your filter nearly as often. The Eheim 2211 should already be stocked at finer Eheim dealers everywhere.

Eheim’s Aqualife Nano Aquarium is a new line of small aquariums with included LED lighting and internal filtration. The Eheim Aqualife Nano aquariums will be available in three sizes, 4, 6 & 9 gallons (16, 24, 35 liters) which are made from glass and on two of the corners the glass is bent instead of having joined glass panes. The Aqualife Nano tank from Eheim will be equipped with a single 7 watt multichip LED spotlight and a small corner mounted 4 watt internal filter that is prepacked with Eheim’s biological and chemical medias. The cute LED spotlight is elegantly suspended in the center of the tank by a bracket made from two bent rigid wires. The starting color temperature of the Aqualife Nano LED light is geared towards growing some of the lower light freshwater plants and it should work well for mosses, ferns and Anubias species. If our memory serves us correctly the pricing of the Eheim Aqualife Nano worked out to the equivalent of $150 for the larger kit and it worked it’s way down from there. Follow the break for a closer look at each size of the Eheim Aqualife nano aquarium with and without water.