*Joel's Channel:* kzfaq.info *Bio Rings Link:* www.aquariumcoop.com/collections/filter-media/products/bio-rings *Matala Mat Link:* amzn.to/2ruILdX

I have a suggestion for your sponge filters. Have a progression where you constantly slide them left to right with the newest cleanest filter going in on the left. Take the oldest dirtiest out on the right. I like you're setup and will do something similar with the addition of protein skimmer and denitrification as you suggested

I love the sump design. I want to make one using this method. Thanks for sharing!

have you thought about just pushing the filter pads forward and just replacing the 1st pad to the back? love this sump !!!!!

This sump is on point. Clean looking and obviously does its job. No crazy setup or nonsense. By far the best and most efficient that I have seen in a long time.

I also really would like to see a video with the sump nowadays

This is the kind of video I tune in for: practical projects and how-tos. More, please. :)

3:17, When you pull a filter pad/scrub pad... Push the others forward, and insert your new filter pad/scrub pad last. That way you are constantly rotating them toward the front of the flow.

Cory that camera is amazing! The details on the barbs, and the fact it can pick up floating particles in the water is amazing! Mind boggling! I love it!

Excellent job Cory and Joel. Loving the use of the old school time lapse music and DIY how-to's. ♥️

Sump design is awesome, would love to recreate this for my large grow out tank, the vertical matt is a great idea!! Work smart not hard, love it! Thanks guys.

Nice DIY video - I appreciate that you used common tools - love that you're using UGF- Thanks Corey and Joel 💕👍

Best aquarium co op video ive seen yet. Alot of good ones

Watching that really makes me want to finish setting up a sump. Sadly been hitting some issues sourcing materials but definitely going to look into the Matala filters.

Hi, Can you give us an update on vertical filter pads sump. Do you still use it or changed it for something else ? Thank you

Great idea for a sump. I have been waiting for this video since the last mention of it

I really liked the Quinton Tarrentino/ Pulp Fiction style editing..."how it works/ finished product" in between y'alls intro and the construction...! Thanks Cory and gang for your awesomeness...! Y'all better keep it up...!

I know this is 4 years too late. But I watched this video back then and I remembered it when I just built my wife her new sump for the 125 I bought her for her anniversary. That mind you mine is just an aqueon 55 gallon tank that I used for a sump; but I used this vertical filter pad design that you did here. Instead of static ceramic in the middle like you have; I added a top rim overhang to give a Cascade effect into the center chamber so that I could have more of a waterfall effect to help mix for k1 media. Where the water Cascades in the flow cycles the media down toward the bottom and on the opposing side I have an air stone cycling everything back up so it makes a continuous cycle. There's a curved piece of number 5 plastic mesh to keep the k1 from going out the bubble trap. Then there is a small gap for me to add any chemical media that I may want, and two pieces of the eight layer honeycomb polishing pads sandwiched between two pieces of egg crate to keep them rigid; they're also mounted vertically in front of the pump so that the water is polished from any of the Dead bacteria cells from the k1 chamber that may filter through as bacteria dies and gets knocked off. On my output I have a 1 inch to half inch t that splits my water flow between the tank and a 360 gallon per hour UV sterilizer 25 watts. There is an adjustment valve to control how much water flow goes through the UV which is then outputted back to the sump.my water has been so clear since this new sump build that it literally looks like my fish are swimming in air. That vertical design has another benefit that I believe some people may have overlooked when watching this. Typically when you have a horizontal setup the surface area is much smaller as the chambers are typically not more than 8 in wide and this also makes for a pain in the ass when it comes to cleaning because you have to pull out subsequent layers to get to other layers for cleaning. This vertical design gives you the full width of the tank and the full height of your chamber doubling tripling or even quadrupling the surface area enabling you to have more water flow, fewer cleaning cycles, easier to pull out individual pads so that you maintain your biological load without having to pull them all out at once to get to the others and without clouding up your tank while doing so, and a higher bacterial load because of how much more media you can pack in that same 8 in. I wish that KZfaq allowed pictures to be sent in a response so that I could show you what I've done with your vertical design and implementing some of my own designs. The cichlids have been thriving and honestly this has even made it so that I have fewer water changes because I have such a large magnitude of biological activity in the sump with the added surface area but I can honestly say that I have not done a water change in over 3 months and my water parameters are still perfect. The only pad that I have had to clean in that time was the primary pad which is 20 PPI poret foam. I have four pads in succession each separated by a layer of egg crate to produce directional flow. 20 PPI, 30 ppi, 40 ppi, and 50 PPI.

love that sump build. really nice

This is a very informative and inspirational video.

Herbie Drain... Learned something new today, Thanks!

Vertical filter pad system! I love it!

You guys are great, thanks for sharing!

Awesome watching this come together.

I hope the analytics show that this is a hit...one of the few 27 minute videos I've ever watched...loved it all!

Love this video!!! So informative!!

Great video as always. I hope I can have a pet store like you one day.

I love the vertical layered filter sponge pads. Has me thinking. I will somehow incorporate it before or after my polyfilter.

Very informative video thanks guys.

great colab vid, buys! Off topic.. love the "adult film style" backbeats when Corvus was cuttin' the acrylic.

Beautiful project Wow

Really enjoyed this vid.

Nice attention to detail with the edges Corvus

I'm surprised no beans overflow for a tank that large, but two is always better then one. I love tinkering with sumps- I've been building my own for about twenty years now, love this set up you guys have going on here. Super silent just like mine.

I love watching your videos and I like all the fish tip you have keep it up man you taught me a lot So far 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Love the sump bro a good built for a beast tank

❤❤❤❤Acrylic, sump and external overflow with herbie style all the way. Once turn to sump there no turning back. Most of my tanks have sump except hospital and small tanks. I always have sump big enough to hold water when pump off. 🏅🏅🏅🏅Joe is doing great to cut used tank. I'll try to cut it next time. Great video and contents. I always enjoy to watch your videos. You guys doing great. Thank you for your time.

Very cool video Cory and "Joel The Weirdo". Joel has some mad skills with that saw.

Omg I LOVE this sump!

Cool set up. Love it ❤️

Simple setup he says, looks like an engineering project.

That is a great concept. You have me sold on under gravel filters. I love how you incorporated them into the sump. When you change the filter floss won’t it stick to the blue or black mats, like Velcro? I am wondering how easy it is going to be to slide one section in and out or are you going to have to slide the whole stack out and change what you want then slide the whole stack back in?

How is the vertical matala mats working, We would like to see a video how is that doing. About the pads change, do that worked out? Like you were hoping like replacing pads every 2 weeks, month, 6 weeks, 8 weeks...?

amazing stuff!!

I totally forgot I was waiting for this video to come out. This was a good one to sit on for your Germany trip.

Beautiful!

If I had a nice sump like that, there's no way I'd cover it up. Love the look of a sump

Love the content!!!

Thanks for sharing the video on this.

Looking good!

cool to see ! I like the way this is designed.. I just built a 210g DIY sump with some neat features, for the 1000g dt I'm building. I was thinking about a cubic foot of Lava rock along with 10 bags of bio rings, 3 gallons of bio-balls, and many pot scrubbies in each of 2 trickle tower.I have a 3ft x 2ft x 2ft chamber in center of sump that will have 2 - 1800gph magdrive return pumps. I'm also running 2" drains..

2:50 That is so brilliant! I wanna try that!

Former union carpenter with a serious safety tip, never ever ever use radial spinning saws (table saw, circular saw, chop saw, etc) with gloves on! It is a sure-fire way to lose fingers or a hand if you even get nicked. Without a glove, you get cut but your whole hand or finger doesn't get pulled in by a glove getting grabbed by the spinning blade. Wasn't a big deal with the circular saw with the acrylic solid blade... but the table saw at the end of the video was a really bad idea with gloves.

Now that’s an efficient sump 👍

Nice build.

This is awesome. If I were to improve on this, I'd probably be borrowing from what we do on reef sumps... return pump goes through a manifold, and water can be distributed to a number of different places. Most back to the tank. Some through a UV sterilizer. Maybe some through a carbon reactor. With a tank of this size it might be really cool to return some of the water through a hydroponic system, and use hyacinth or something to really polish the water up. These adjunct systems would just return back to the sump.

One of my favorite episodes

move the filter pads from left to right as you change out the saturated one on the right.placing the clean one at the left.

Always a favorite. Love projects. Corvus where you be at?

Hi Cory. If you can i would love a summarized video on fresh water puffers and what you would recommend for the novice to the professional. Also what tank mates you would recommend for them. I know you have a long video that you did in one of your talks but a summary would be awesome. Enjoy the week

I really wanted to see the pluming being done and what was used.

Cool stuff

Very cool, I wonder if when you were cutting the tank if you positioned some 2 x 4’s on the inside where the cut is to stabilize it. The blade would cut right through the two by fours allowing it to make a straight cut without the acrylic bending.

Very cool Cory

Congratulations!

Put a sump on it! This is great, thank you!

The only thing I would do differently is increasing the size of the outflow tubing so you strangle the flow as little as possible. You put an adapter between the pump tubing to make them fit. I would also build a DIY outflow pipe, think classic eheim horizontal spray bar but much bigger and with more holes.

Great video. Only issue with using your Wood Guide for your Skillsaw is that you need to make sure the wood guide is not warped because the moisture has been evaporating from it. Pine / White wood is notorious for warping in all directions. make sure that you place it against a straight edge first other wise you wont get a straight cut.

Awesome video and sump I’m really loving the design one question: did you look into using marine pure media for biological filtration instead of all of those bags of rings just wondering they make a 8x8x4 inch block you might like it.

Question: How did you setup the float valve and the connecting pump for when the water overfills the sump? I'm getting ready to transition into a bigger tank and wanted a setup where if water starts to overfill in the sump I have in place a mechanism to siphon the extra water.

Great video! 😎 Although this is my fault entirely but I didn’t read the title description properly and thought you had done a collaboration with the King Of DIY Joey. 🤗

That is a kick-ass sump sir👍✌️

Can you show us more on the gravel filters? Love your videos.

Tempt fate or Attempt feat. Haha nice video Cory thanks

Incredible

Awesum sump!

Another awesome video! Thanks for sharing. Definitely going to incorporate some of this innovation in my filtration. What type of sand is in your tank? Just curious this being a serious filtration endeavor.

*Oh hey guy! I remember helping with this lol!*

Hey Joey love the sump !! I really apreaciate the behind the scen stuff. maybe you should try miracle mud 2 in the back up 75 sump. In theory it should be great for the fish aswell as the plants ! You should look into it ! Maybe make a video series about it !

Thanx for the links ,I’m using them in mine , they claim they are good for both bateria aerobic ,anaerobic . And I have that Walmart poly fill stuff for the mechanical filtration. Hope it works.

You can save the acrylic of the cut part to use for future projects or possibly even of used some of it in this sump. What about using all the same pond filter material making it to where you pull the front filter pad and slide the pads forward, installing the newest pad in the rear... For everybody that commented about the fish in the sump Cory remarked on the fish in the sump and explain how it got there.

Vertical pads! Brilliant!!!

Corvus+Corey= DYNAMIC DUO!

Nice filterr

the filter pads arrangement makes lot of Sense for easy maintenance

I've noticed something with fish hobbyists, myself included. They tend to ramble on and just keep explaining and explaining going into as much detail as possible, trying to make sure others understand the complexity of fish keeping that many others don't understand.

That sump is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen

Did anyone else see the clown loach in the sump?

can you do a follow up on the progress of the sump, did the the vertical filters need replacing as you originally thought every two weeks? What would you change if doing another one? Cheers

nice sump video, can you make video explaining crushed corals and PH or you do have it and i spiked it?

jiggggg some stuff upp! 😋

Nice work. You think a separator with a gap at the bottom in the bio ring chamber would help flow through the rings?

You should do more projects on sumps and what will you be doing with the top half of the sump ...I think you should make or create an over head Sump for more filtration that can also behave like a water skimmer and more water agitation and what do you think and good luck

Awesome amount of bio media lol More is always better! Especially after looking at those tanks in the China fish market video..

I’m thinking of systems like this filter.. ...for this I would consider compartments for the bags...like steps down....one step with the coral on top then bags to the bottom...a wall divider with holes... then the next step would be a bag on top then the coral followed by bags...then repeat steps down & an other divider until the coral is on bottom.

Hey, I liked the video, but was rushed at the end, sure wish you could have added in the finishing up and adding water and getting it up and running... maybe a part two with the rest... Thanks for the helpful tips on buying used tanks and using them in a correct manner... great job

Cory is the freshwater GOAT

Awesome build, why did you not add moving bed compartment

Is there an update video on the sump? Was everything like you expected, did you change anything, etc.

Thanks for the great video. Do you think I would need a protein skimmer with some much media and foam filters? I would prefer not to have a protein skimmer due to cost. I plan on using a 30 gallon sump tank for a 75 gallon aquarium for a new saltwater aquarium.