Freshwater Aquarium Filtration Systems Setup Advice – My take and advice for aquarium filtration setup.
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So, what you’re saying is that good filtration depends on the “surface area” of the filter. Right? Hint! Hint!
I was about to purchase canister filter. Thank god i found your videos before getting fooled…
Thanks for this video! It’s been really helpful for me just starting out.
I have one question though. I get that you just need to make surface area. But what if you just fill a filter with only sponges? Or only biorings? What difference does it make what you use? Everything I’ve been reading says, one layer of sponge and a layer of bio rings. But if it is only about surface area, why do you need both? And when do you need to change the sponges/biorings, or do you even need to?
Nice video.
Very informative video … perfect for an uninformed noob like me. :o)
Well done!
Hello, PLease help. I bought your hang on intake filter, but my wife saw all the poop not going up and into the filter and staying on the surface of the filter and she made me take it out… She said its slowing down the water flow and the poop and stuff wont get to the biorings so the bacteria wont be able to use that stuff… I can’t confirm she’s wrong, PLEASE LET US KNOW!!
my issue is that i just changed my filter to biorings & sponge that i got from co-op and now my Nitrates & Nitrites are high right now. .5 ppm so need to know asap
Just had to pause this video to order an intake sponge, sponge filter and dwarf aquarium lily from you. Looking forward to their arrival. Thanks for the knowledge!
I really learned a lot thank you so much, and come to think of it whenever I see a large room of aquariums I do see those sponge filters!!!! And yes I have been wondering about them! GG
Do the sponges you sell last for ever and do you clean them or do you throw them in the trash
Helpful as always. Thanks for the breakdown of each type.
good video. one major mistake bacteria do not take oxygen in from the water or air they neither have lungs or gills they obtain their oxygen by consuming nitrates and nitrites
If you can’t afford his and you have left over aquaclear sponge or the likes, you cut that to work too.
I know it’s an old video but they do sell one sided sponges now for sponge filters that you can put as a pre filter. Just fyi to future people 🙂
WOW. I’ve had it wrong all along. I’ve cleaned my fish to death, literally. And I just bought a dozen carbon filters (got ’em real cheap, so I stocked up) for my hang-on back filter. I’m going to get one of your sponges and stuff everything I can fit in my filter! SURFACE AREA!!!!! I’m so glad I found you! 🙂
I haven’t finished the video but I have learned something new in the first 2 min. of this video. Great job. New to the hobby looking at a 10g fancy guppy/yellow shrimp with java moss. Well that’s my plan so far.
Great info mate…thanks..I’m going back to basics
Surface area But also flow rate is a big factor.
Hi Cory, I really need help! I have a new 10 gallon fish tank that I purchased as a setup (which came with a HOB filter, cartridge pads, heater, etc.) I have a betta fish, some ghost shrimp, and a mystery snail. It’s been cycling for a little over 3 weeks now. I have live plants, so after watching this video I want to take out the biobag cartridge out since it has carbon and replace it with biomax filter media and a sponge but will this disrupt anything as far as the bacteria that may have started to grow on my cartridge? Give me any helpful advice you can please! Thanks so much, love your channel!
I’ma believer
This is a 44 minute infomercial for his intake sponge.
Love the video, Big help thanks, Cory 🙂
Helpful up front, salesy in the middle
Cory, great video for beginners. I would like to add however, that flow rate is also an important variable when deciding which filter to go with. Many filters will provide enough surface area to allow enough bacteria to grow to handle the ammonia, but having enough water flow is also important for fish, plants, and to eliminate dead spots and waste buildup.
I’ve had an Idea for one of my hang on back filters. Could I boil used legos and use them as filter media?
I tried to buy this and there is no option to can be my country to Canada
Your forgetting oxygenation too though
I need the TL;DR version…
Oh, wise aquarium fish man, thee have opened my eyes and filled my mind of clarity. For that, I am eternally grateful.
tnx man.
Why not connect a sponge filter on the intake of the HOB filter ? Also you wouldn’t need A noisy air pump running.
Very nice video!
You touched it briefly in the video, mentioning a single guppy in a big tank, but the amount of waste a filter have to handle depends on how much “waste” you put into the aquarium each day!
So how many gallon the tank is doesn’t really matter.
If you feed the fish in a tank 1/10 oz of food each day, they will produce about 1/10 oz of waste.
If you feed 1 oz, there will be 1 oz of waste, so there will need to be 10 times the bacteria, and if you feed 10 oz, you need 100 times the bacteria.
That’s also why the “1inch of fish need 1 gallon of water” rule doesn’t work on filtration (and it should be considered very loosely for tanksize for other reasons).
My school of a dozen Ember tetras have a combined lenght approximately the same as my weather loach. But my weather loach easily eat more than ten times the food my entire school of Ember tetras do, so it require more than ten times the work from the filter system.
Good one.