That tiny little pump made me say "awwww" when i first opened it. "just look at it... its so cute!" haha

Thanks for the video, you gave a thorough review of what looks like a good product. I like the looks of the corner filter and the idea for the dam at the base is a good one. One thing I never understand is why people are rinsing their sponges in dirty filter water. No matter how hard you try, the sponge remains dirty. I always either just run them under the tap (the denitrifying bacteria is everywhere in the tank. They’re everywhere man!) or for newer tanks that are not well established, fill a five gallon bucket with dechlorinated water and pour that over the sponge as I squeeze. Usually into a sink till it runs clear. Thanks again for the entertaining and informative videos.

I use a poret divider for my breeder (discus) tanks. Besides being a great filter medium, it's the easiest, sturdiest "divider" I have found. I use it to make the tank "smaller" temporarily, to help the parents find/gather the babies when they first become free-swimming. It also keeps the babies away from my filter intake. Once the babies attach to the parents, I move the foam all the way to the side as a sort of intake pre-filter and continue using the same tank as a grow out. I can avoid moving the babies from tank to tank like that and maximize my tank usage at the same time.

I use a corner filter on my 150 as well. They are the best. I used a canister filter with modified intake and discharge rather than an airpump or general pump.

I'm planning to use one of these corner filters on a 75 gallon Tanganyikan cichlid tank build. What I like about this filter compared to a canister filter, is that with an extended power outage like I get in my area from time to time, the bacteria in the filter stays alive and won't become toxic to my critters when the power is restored. Enjoyed watching these videos on the Mattenfilter!

PORET FOAM IS A SHRIMP KEEPERS BEST FRIEND! Hands down my favorite filter,I use the corner matten as well for my german rams in my 20g long tank,it was initially setup in June and I seeded it with another poret filter from my lfs and by george I haven't had to rinse it out yet.in fact there is a layer of bio mulm goodies that my baby rams eat so thats why shrimp will love them as well. You gotta be patient these filters get better with time so let your tank season slowly and you'll be rewarded in spades. My filter is now mature to the point where de-nitrification is happening deep inside the 2inch 30ppi foam because that bio layer I was talking about above slows down the inflow whereby the middle of the foam is oxygen poor enough to support anaerobic bacteria. Quite simply the most amazing filter and just about the only one where denitrification can occur. I've tried all those sintered glass biomedia etc and they are just nitrate factories which is fine but I want more dammit! I just ordered a new kit for my 29g tall because I'm my old zoomed turtle filter and the bio media inside is not denitrifying fast enough for my liking if at all,my plants somewhat do that sucking up ammonia and nitrates but I still have to do weekly water changes. Anyhoo Pektec your gonna fall in love with your mattenfilter and I predict within a year your going to ditch all your hob filters and go with the mattens. Peace out

I love how this blends right into the back.

I am going to enjoy watching this tank come together!

Using Swiss Tropicals foam in a sump for my freshwater 240g. It's bullet proof, works great and the fish are happy.

Having used silicon many years I have one simple trick/tip... when smoothing out the silicon, wet your finger. It really helps. The idea is not only to smooth over the area, but to smooth for a more attractive finish. The wet finger lets you smooth is like a hot spatula on icing.

Great video Again pecktec! I am a newly subscriber to you from Denmark and i absolutely love all your videos and reviews! I like your personality and how you manege to get me convnced in believing your shining honesty! I think you sent "the message" very very good in all of your videos and you are fun at times so it never get boring to watch. I am sorry I have only positive things to say here. Keep up the good work pecktec and say hello to Charlie from me😃

Was just expecting to quickly see the video, but I liked it and your approach so much I subscribed.

Cool. It will be interesting to see the finished product in use.

Thanks Sean! Great video as always.

Another great use for poret foam is to cut blocks that fit over your canister or hang on the back's intake, it pre'- filters the water going into your filter an cuts back on filter maintenance.All you need to do is take it off and rinse after your weekly water change you can go 3 times longer before having to strip down your canister.

This is old but good information is forever. Thank you so much!! Just wanted you to know your voice is still being heard.

Loved this video Sean thanks 👍

My 40 gallon has been running a HMF for almost 18 months using poret foam. Works great and provides small fry somewhere to graze...I have needed to clean it only once in that time.

Another feature of this style of filter pertains to shrimp tanks. The foam surface becomes more grazing area for the little critters. I know this is an older video, but no less valuable. Thank you!

I've been fascinated by these filters ever since I saw them in a Ted Judy video: the surface area for good bacteria is immense. And nice idea regarding the retaining wall at the base -- I'd wondered what to do about substrate when pulling one of these for cleaning.

Great video! I’m doing a 20 gallon tank for my guppies and Cory cats. I will do a corner filter. Keep it simple! Thanks!

That's a heck load neater than my first attempt at a mattenfilter! Though it was my first tank and my first choice of filtration. ran my 60L tank for a year with minimal water changes and everything thrived in it. :) Though i just used an airpump attached to the jetlift.

Thanks I just installed one watching your video

*Awesome video as always!* Thumbs up!

Considering your not a DIY don you did a really good job and it looks great 🤗🤗

I love Swiss Tropicals. I have the sponge filter in my 20L and am NOT even slightly annoyed with how it looks. Probably cos of how my tank is planted and rocked. Fantastic filter. Sheesh, I sound like an ad..

That was truly informative. Hopefully, the organisms growing throughout the matten filter will be sufficient enough to maintain pristine, lucid water. Also, I've read there's enough flow behind the corner filter for pouches of chemical filtration for crystal clear water freaks like myself.

Watching your videos has begun to plunge me back into the aquarium hobby full-on and head first.

Nice video, pecktec! Poret foam is definitely worth the added expense vs cheap foam. I won't buy any foam products that don't use, at least, reticulated foam. All our filter intakes and sponge filters are reticulated foam (from ATI).

Best fish tank youtuber ever

Looks like the amazon link to the pump is broken. Any chance you still know the name to the pump and can provide it? Thanks for an awesome video.

nice install!

hello Shaun can u tell me what's the PPI on the foam that u used for ur corner filter? hello pectec

if you turn the sponge round there will be more surface area when those grooves are out

that foam is the one of the best things that has happened to this hobby. i use it on all my aquariums.

Any updates on this tank/filter combo? Love to see how things turned out now that you're using this system.

Great video, I'm thinking of doing this type of filtration for a 20 gallon long shrimp only aquarium. How did you retrofit the lift tube to the pump? Also I know flip aquatics has this same fiter but theirs isn't setup as a corner filter. I like the fact that the Swiss tropicals has the glass brackets.

would it have been better to have the sponge the other way around. It would bed easier and have a greater surface area for dirty tank water to flow over?

Good video, but I wish you had included a video of the system operating.

Great ideas.

Once my 36 gallon is up and fished moved to it I'm absolutely doing this to my 20 long with the Finnex LED and dirted. When are we getting an update on this one and that light Sean?!

Really want one of these kits, but I can't get Swiss Tropicals website to load. Did he hang up his hat?

Stephan Tanner is a great guy and i love his Repashy flavor "Fruit Luups" made just for him by the company for plecos.

I'm loving more and more the idea of moving from "hi-tech" filters to simple foam ones for price and simplicity. I only have one tank and it's already stablished so I wonder if there's any alternative to the glass tops to hold the foam in place, so I don't have to empty the aquarium. Any ideas or experiences?

So I got a 40 breeder one how can I get it to stick closer to the sponge ?

Would putting an additional block of poret foam on the bottom of the airlift or intake of the micro pump add aditional mechanical filtration or just be redundant?

Nice video

good one thanks

very smart

Im too using this kind of filter only ( One side fully)but got a problem... when ever i try to do water change the dirt from the sponge is covering the surface of the water while refilling it. How can i get rid of this issue,,,

I'm thinking about getting a fluval spec V because I can't stand the look of HOBs and heaters in the back especially in nano tanks. Would a corner/HMF filter work as well as the spec V system? This may mean the difference between a 5g fluval kit or 10g/20g generic tank for me.

any updates on this tank? didn't see any on your channel page. I would like to see how you service this without wrecking the scape. my substrate always ends up much deeper in the back than the dam you built.

Great Video Mr. Pektec. From your explanation, I understand that the flow rate of water current shall be small enough so that the bacteria inside Flex piece have sufficient time to do the denitrification. Can you advise how much the flow rate cycle (liter/hour) ?

This is a simple HMF, you can buy this Foam in any aquariatic Store in Europe and it cost depending on the ppi Nummer from 10 to 40 in 2 x 2 feet and " to 2" or 4" thick 10 to 20 bucks. This Form cuts like nothing with a metal saw blade or an sharp bread knife. Way more simple to make the Foam fit are plastic or stainless steal L or U profiles that you just silicone in place. The side Version even it is ugly is may one of the best filter solution there is. depending on your tank space you has a huge Media cappacity and very low energy costs. lets say you do an HMF on an 6.5 x 2 x 2/200 x 60 x 60 with 180G. An HMF at this tank a with 2" Mat containce 18 Liters of Media cappacity. An Jet lifter that you showed has a moving ratio of 250 Liters of air to 700 Liters of warer. For an ideal media surface mofement you need 2 to 2.5 tank volumes of filtration. A good air pump with 800 or 1000 Liters of air per hour need between 14 to 20 Watts and you can move around 2800 to 3000 Liters of water with it. Now compare this to an FX6 with 5 Liters of Media cappacity and 42 Watt of Power useage.

I know I am five years late to ask this but do you recall the measurements for the Dam? Thank you for your video BTW. I ordered my filter from Swiss tropicals because of you and I can't wait to get it up and running!

wish the lift tube was black so it could blend into the black filter that would've been great

could have used the same black l shape plastic as the tank rim instead of glass strips ,and strong magnets to hold it in place ,

I did a filtration like this one here. How long I leave them there before I do cleaning of the filter. I got shrimp too. It’s a 3 ft tank.

Hey Pecktec. I was just wondering if you had installed the block of Porett foam inside the first chamber of your fluval Flex yet? If so how's it working out and does it cover both filter intakes?

Thanks for this video on that corner filter. I gotta buy me one. Will you post a link to Swiss Tropical?

what brand is aquarium approved silicone

Do you think it'd be smart to do something like this, but as a means of hiding a heater? Supergluing PVC pipe or something in a corner and painting it black to blend in with a black background?

Where is the scape of this tank? i cant seem to find this tank in any of your other vids.

So it's been a year now, any chance for an update on how the corner filter is doing with that specific foam?

Good idea but environmentally not so good? Production of foam etc I still think with correct substrate an undergravel filter is hard to beat.

what size PPI is that pec

Good video 👍 🔔

I'm looking for a way to install a corner filter without emptying the tank. Can it be done?

Thinking of ordering some poret foam myself. Which pore density did you decide to go with?

Name of the pump? The link isn’t working.

Is that a Bulova accutron spaceview?

Funny for a second you looked like Joey ! lol DIY Sean ! Good build and as we all see it now what you get wood last months box you used it as weight. See there is many things you can use drift wood (especially the African Kalahari desert hard wood). Don't use brick cause it can scratch or break your tank if falls out of your hand ! So Sean I see you going high tec. You become a high pecktec. lol I wonder where you going to set it up and how it looks when you set it up ? I think you mentioned that your wife told you if 1 tank comes in the other has to go. 1 in 1 out! Hmm I wonder if she still saying it ? lol Like the baby when you feed them : 1 for mommy 1 for daddy 1 for sister 1 for brother etc etc ..... 1 tank for you 1 tank community 1 tank for her (though she don't want it) 1 for daughter 1 for your father 1 for breeding 1 for the grow up tank 1 for cause you got some gadget for it for free 1 for ....... etc lol ! I can just picture : She goes home ...... Sean ..... really ? Another one ? Why don't we live in the sea and just build a bubble house where we sleep and all around us water and fish ! Or Uhm and which tank you going to replace this time cause there is no more room ? Seam how many tank is enough ? You go " But honey look at them they are so nice and quiet and you know ...... don't you like them ? Come on honey just one more I promise I get you that dress you liked or that shoe or I take you for a week vacation may be a weekend spa ! lol No Sean that's it you turning this house to a fish tank and when people coming over every 10 minutes they have to go and use the washroom cause the sound makes them go ...... lol and nowhere to sit and all over fish stuff. Sean I told you no more tank and you promised that too......... Sorry but I had to cause it is funny at least to me ...... and I'm sure there are other people out there who had similar situation like this before ! So Sean I do like to see this tank in action ASAP somewhere inside the house. Not in the garage ! lol I got your back buddy ! lol

how can i get these kinds of filter matt...im from the philippines.

it looks profesional :D

Yes. Rubbing alcohol is the best way to get caulk off anything. Even if the internet tells you to use a razor blade. Neither one should go in your eye though.

has Joe already done the corner filter

Добрый ! Ктонибуть в травники пользовался ?

Do they ship to U.K. :)

If you need a truly silent air pump "Aquael oxypro 150" is your best bet. You can only hear it when you put your ear right next to it. The output is controlled electronically so it doesn't run at 100% all the time. It looks very stylish as well: images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61nJleqKa6L._SL1000_.jpg My girlfriend got me one for my birthday and I love it.

10:03 guys, i hate to be that person but i think this tank needs a bit more filtration, the water is practically still

should have just asked joey to help ya build your own! lol

That's a lot of money for a piece of Sponge and 2 pieces of glass and pvc piping :O. Nice video tough

have a look at this guys channel .... give him a spotlight !!!! Zacks Tanks Crazy Aquarium Guy

Still using this filter?

hah, Got your hands in there. . Nice

Hack: get a cheap electric knife to cut the foam. its like cutting air.

Foams so expensive though. Over $30 a tank, just for the foam.