Thanks so much Ash for your kind words!

Much appreciated as always!!!!

I'm so glad you like it!

Thanks so much! Glad you like it

Much appreciated Raliegh!

That's so kind of you to say! Long term testing is the only way to be sure of the results you will get, especially when you put something like this into the contained ecosystem of a tank.

Lol! Thanks guys!

Thanks so much!!

Same... I was wondering what the lazy man's filter is. Had a few different power outages and around 12hrs+- could bt more was asleep for one of them, but was bad enough that my tanks got bad enough it killed the snails. Taken quite some time for them to get the Nitrates back down. Since the last big outage added air/foams to the tanks so if anything does happen when away, something is still happening.

I really do need to make play lists so things can be easier to find. Here is a link to that filter kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y6p7acxzztSuYn0.html .Thanks so much for your kind words!

@@wobblysauce I left the link to that filter above so you can have a look. Fortunately that power failure happened in the summer otherwise it would have been a different result for sure.

Most definitely. Freshwater also allows for greater variety in how you can put them together. Thanks so much for taking the time to watch. I really appreciate it!

Still working on the details but so far I prefer the flow through with the macro better and the chemistry of the tanks seems better. It just requires more chambers. The downside of it is it also requires more regular maintenance. There is definitely a 3.0 in the works and another update. Thanks so much for watching

That's the problem with short updates. I meant to mention the poorer flow rate through this version of the filter. As the filter gets dirty it results in areas where less desirable algae can grow. It doesn't seem to have much affect on a larger system like this one but that is something I will have to address for a 3.o version. Thanks for watching and mentioning this

I should probably do a video on this. The short answer is lots of leg work. I went to everywhere that I thought would want or might have an aquarium and got my name out there. I also got to know all of the local lfs and let them know what I was up to. On top of that I did a bunch of advertising and home shows. It takes time but eventually you develop a clientele. Hope that helps

Let me know how it goes

Hey William. Thanks for watching. The dirt is part of the inevitable build up in this style of filter even if I had a prefilter. Even if I could somehow keep it from building up I would have to take out and prune the chaeto regularly. Thanks for your thoughts on this. Much appreciated

Hey Angelo! Chaeto is great for any refugium style for sure. Hope you're surviving the heat?

There will be a 3.0 version to take the best features of each. If I made the bottom deeper in version 2 I could put chato down there and that could help but there would still be issues with this. For freshwater I would probably use a fast growing plant with a larger container. I will have to work on one. Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts on this

Thanks so much Joe. Loved that video on the story behind your goggles!

It's an interesting filter stile for sure. Thanks for taking the time to come by and watch

Hey J! During the power failure version 2 dried out and it took much longer to come back to a useful level as compared to version 1.

@@FishmanEricRussell - Ah that makes since if it was emerged plates. I made a submerged algae scrubber for a large tank (260 gallons) that was kept in a sump. Had a similar issue with a prolonged power outage even though the algae didn't dry out it was enclosed in the stand and didn't get light for about 4 days. The algae died back significantly and seemed to take a little longer with regrowth than I thought it originally took. All these years I thought it was just my imagination but guess not now. I used an old window glass and some stainless steel screen door mesh to start mine. But back then we didn't have the LEDs so I started with a 150w spot light and once established reduced it to a 100w bulb. Seemed to work okay for a couple years. I broke it in a move one day and just never got around to rebuilding it.

The macro algae doesn't grow on the plates unfortunately. Thanks for the thought and for watching

I toyed with the drum filters that rotated due to the flow of water and found that they tended to seize up with time. I have been thinking of using stepper motors in a number of builds including drum filters and will get to them sometime soon. Thanks for watching.

@@FishmanEricRussell lol... I've seen any number of motor types. One guy uses windshield wiper motors. The closest I've been to stepper motors was in some of the first graphical plotters. Dot matrix printers probably use steppers. I'd just be happy with not having to DIY the space shuttle in my garage.

As far as I determine, the commercial RDFs use around 60 micron filters, what do you think of going smaller? Say with a pair (60/30) of RDFs?

@@Shalmaneser1 For a rotating drum any DC motor would be fine. The steppers are for another project and I was just going to keep things uniform

@@Shalmaneser1 As in all things finding a balance is the trick. Larger pore size will handle dirtier situations without clogging. Smaller pore size will clean out more but with a dirty situation may clog easily.

Thanks for coming by