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I love how these have been educational highlights from live streams made into easy to watch videos

Far to many of use especially newbies get either information overload, or target fixation on a specific aspect of fish care. You have the best balance of wide knowledge/experience/work ethic. Combined with good balance of enough relevant and accurate information, delivered from the heart. Getting and maintaining the balance is what we all strive for. Thank you for all you do for us

That HUGE sponge filter is hilarious 😂 I want one.

I'm really enjoying cuts from older livestreams - the info is still relevant, but more easily packaged! I watch every episode that comes out. And that GIANT sponge filter was pretty awesome 🙂

That giant sponge filter made me crack up!! 🤣 I think filtration is a topic that will always be one that needes to be discussed. There are so many different options, and not one of them is the "best". What is the "best" for me may not be for you. That's why this hobby is so freakin cool!! We can all take from eachother and become better fishkeepers.

In my experience, ease of maintenance is one of the most important things to consider when deciding what filter to go with for your particular setup. I have a Fluval Flex with the built in filtration compartments, and I bought some media baskets for the compartments that allows me to stage the filtration media properly, but more importantly it makes it really easy for me to pull all of it out during water changes to rinse and clean. I can also easily siphon out all the built up waste inside the filter compartments while I'm at it. I can have everything clean in about 15 minutes. If I'm gonna have multiple tanks, I need the maintenance to be as simple and straight forward as possible.

I can't say thank you enough for all these videos!!! As I'm still very new with keeping fish, I am always trying to learn things to help better my tanks. Filtration has always been something I'm trying to learn about. My tanks were all kits, so I'm using what came with them, but I'm looking into changing the filtration possibly and change lighting. So I love these videos. Thanks for always taking the time to do these videos.

Awesome! I agree there hasn't been much of a standard and its highly depending on the bioload.

Education, cool car analogies, and time travel in the same video...! Y'all really are amazing...! Hahaha, thanks and keep it up...!

I just ordered some plants and fertilizer from you guys! Thanks for all of the great resources while I’ve been getting into the hobby!

Every year goes by makes me realize how little I need, especially the more aged a tank becomes

One I've learned from Cory here and John and Lisa on KeepFishKeeping is you don't need huge elaborate filters for your tank. Sponges and HOBs will do most any small tanks.

I was wondering why this video seemed familiar! The info is just as relevant as before and saves me time from going through older livestreams when looking for specific information so I really appreciate these concise tidbits. Filtration is such a contested topic and watching these gives me hope that I won't necessarily need that canister filter no matter what the forums keep telling...

Great video once again.

Excellent information sir, even for someone who is experienced you can never brush up your knowledge of the fundamentals too much

Great video thank you. I really like the bag of bio rings you sell. I have one bag in each filter. Have Had them for a couple years now. I really really like the sponge filters you sell. I need a couple more for my new tanks. The sponge filters last for years. Mine haven't worn out yet. Don't remember how long i had had them but I rinse the once or twice a week so they don't get too gunky. Thank you! .

I feel like I woke up and it was 5 years ago. Solid advice in any case. 👍

I only needed one bubble filter and that's it. Used to have some big strong filters, but it really made my tank dirty very quickly. Cause it filtered the bacteria as well. Too much filtration=less bacteria. Which means the tank gets dirty quick

This video convinced me to reduce to one canister filter vs. Two and so far I'm not disappointed.

This setup for the 800gal remains my favorite.

Guys just speaking from a few years of experience and I want to say do not underestimate how much live plants are as a filter. I have a koi pond and 3 indoor tanks and I have a sponge filter in a tank, a huge canister filter in another, a hang on the back filter, and a tank with strictly just plants and a pump to circulate water. And I have noticed for my bio load the plant filters work much better than anything you can buy.

I would be interested to see how you would hot rod a FX6.

I use 2 hob on my 55g tank. It's not stocked much yet. One is a topfin 75 and the other seachem tidal 110. I modified the topfin so that the right chamber is just for mechanical filtration and the left chamber for biological filtration. I've got more fish coming but it still won't be overstocked

I get less hair algae when the *velocity* of my filter discharge water is lower. The old Rena Filstar came with a ball valve that lets me choke down the water flow. (A more diffuse head could also accomplish that while not lowering the filter rate.)

I've always been of the mind that over filtering is better than under filtering.

I don't comment much, but I do appreciate these videos

I love this guy

Where can I buy that giant sponge for hob filter

Can I use a timer on my canister filter?

I start with a sponge filter and if I need water polishing a box filter stuffed with fine filter floss.

I have hob, smaller canister and fx6 on my 55 gallon but I have 24 plecos in it. It's a temporary tank until they grow out more.

I have read that aponogeton crispus need a dormancy period so do you guys remove them from your tank to replicate the dormancy conditions or you leave them in your tank??? Any replies would be appreciated

Fish load is absolutely what determines the amount of media you need. Gallons in the tank doesn't matter. My rule of thumb for how much filtration I need is how quickly my glass gets that bio film haze. That haze that clouds your glass. Not to be mistaken by algae. That's not what I'm talking about. If my glass needs to have the haze cleaned off once a week, or once every two weeks in my opinion I don't have nearly enough. In my aquariums I have enough media that I only need to clean the glass every month and a half to two months. For me that's when I feel I've got enough. This doesn't mean gph either. You can have overkill on gph while not having enough media simultaneously. For example I have a 125 gallon tank with several very large African Cichlids in it. It has 2 fx6, 1 sunsun 304b, an xpertmatic internal filter, and a large sponge filter. This is way overkill in gph but with that much media my glass stays clean and the bacteria in my filters not the nitrifying bacteria get to break down the waste as quickly as its made. I've been waiting months for one of them to get dirty enough to clean for a video but it never happens. If I had a filter large enough to hold all the media I have going in it. I'd just run one filter. The xpertmatic internal filter I don't use for biological filtration. I clean it weekly. I only use it to remove waste from the tank but mainly aeration. The large sponge filter I only keep in there to seed new aquariums. I keep a few in different tanks strictly for this purpose. People in this hobby have this idea in their head that an aquarium only grows enough bacteria to "cycle" a tank. Which simply isn't true. An aquarium will grow far more nitrifying bacteria than needed to "cycle" the tank. Is there a limit to how much it will grow I'm sure there is but it far exceeds the amount needed to keep ammonia and nitrite at zero ppm. People tend to not realize there are many other kinds of bacteria living in their tank that break down waste. These are also important. Another thing to think about is the bacteria that break down waste reproduce much quicker than nitrifying bacteria. This is the reason why cleaning to often is such a bad thing. You'll have an imbalance of both kinds of bacteria. Likewise if you don't clean enough the nitrifying bacteria can out grow the other bacteria. So to sum it up go by how clean your tank stays. Both the water and the surfaces. If it's getting dirty quickly add more. I have a 75 gallon African Cichlid Tank that's so balanced it hasn't had the glass cleaned since August of 2021 and is pristine. Zero algae growth and water never turns green. The way I setup and maintain my tanks none of them grow Algae even with 11 hours of lights on. Any filter can keep your tank "cycled" but that doesn't mean it's efficiently or properly filtering your tank. I say "cycled" in quotes because the way people think of cycled in this hobby is only 3/4 of a true cycle.

Seeing the picture of the video preview, i thought that this was a much older videos, instead it is from few days ago...did you rejuvenate or something?

I’ve definitely been switching to using the stuff in the tank and plants as the filter and just move the water around. I use a sponge filter and maybe one additional airstone to move water. I’ve been through every type of filtration but I’m trying to get everything back to simple. Less is more.

I love this channel. You guys are so underrated.

Can we please get a video with Dean soon, we miss him!!

Where did that giant sponge filter come from???! I need to see this thing in person, my god...

I need help, my kindergarten has a tank. It’s been up 8 weeks I’ve been dosing with stability and prime. It hasn’t cycled at all. My ammonia is sitting at 2ppm but nitrites and nitrates are sitting at 0 plus my ph has crash to a 6.0. I was recommended to dose stability for 2 weeks every day then dose prime every second day (there is tetras in this tank) and it hasn’t done anything 😢 I’m at a loss.

I have a Fluval 407 on a 10 gallon aquarium.😊

Summary: overkill does not hurt but not having enough could cause problems

Love your content because it kind of applies to my hobby of aquatic reptile keeping. Difference being 1000X bio load. Filtration is always the biggest headache. I wish they made canister sock filters I could run inline. 😕

How would I know if my filtration is adequate?

I know you've done videos all about cleaning a tank but maybe it's time for a more consolidated one: showing what to do for regular cleaning (like what do you rinse in tap water, what do you rinse in fish water) and how and when to do a major cleaning. Just a thought.

The pond guru says 1kg of bio media = a 100 liter tank and that's is good for a normally stocked tank, with a heavily stocked tank you can reduce that by half, so 4kg of biomedia will by good for a 400 liter normally stocked tank, and again half that fig for a heavily stocked tank

Funny I just finished watching a couple of the 1st filter videos this morning…

Congratulations it's wonderful, I'm also a creator and you're a great inspiration to me

There's no such thing as too much filtration on any closed system. Think of it as recreating an environment for any living being, if you have multiple sources of filtration, you're improving the living condition of your enclosed environment by increasing the amount of water being cycled and you require less maintenance, having to mainly clean the first filter once per 3-6 months depending on load and not including evaporation top offs. It's still not advisable but alot more sustainable than running multiple fish tanks even if they're air filtered. A

I have a turtle tank never too much filtration and I focus on biological and mechanical filtration and it’s and art to find the right balance

I’ve been running a 40 breeder with 10 comet goldfish of a “20g” sponge filter and air pump for months with 0 issues

Here's how I personally look at it... If you take your substrate and literally put more down than you really need I would say make it around 3 to 4 inches thick and buy hang on backs making sure that for example if it's a 125 gallon aquarium I would use 3 of the biggest hang on backs... I wouldn't disturb the gravel much when doing water changes... But vacuum it in sections every couple weeks maybe even once a month but break it down in sections about 14-20%... It will always stay clear!! Because the bacteria build up itself will carry the aquarium... With changing all the cartridges once a month but me personally I use 4 cartridges per bang on back .. I'm telling you in reality you won't be cleaning that tank much... That's a truck I was taught 20 years ago

Never. Too. Much. Filtration I have an fx6 on a competition grade flowerhorn grow out tank 30. Spray bar and nozzle cap used. Flow slightly reduced . Would settle for less.

I make my own mechanical filters, I get to custom build to suit

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Moat people under filter thier aquariums, so I feel like having too much filtration is a good things vs worrying about whether or not peeps have too much. But I get it, telling people you need specialized tools will also turn them off from the hobby. It''s why I recommend people to simply replace every filter medium they use to simple sponges and plastic pot scrubbers. Even better: if you ditch all your ceramic media (bio rings, etc) you will also inevitably triple/quadruple sometimes x10, your filter capacity. Ceramic media don't really have as much filtration capacity as we were lead to believe as most of these surface areas are too small for critters and microorganism to colonize and most of it are actually closed off from the outside world. Might be usable for nitrogen gas, but practically useless for the microorganism that do the bulk of the filtration. The surface area cited by companies are really misleading because the test used for getting these result measure nitrogen gas penetration, not actual biological activity. 15 to 30 ppi sponges and plastic scrubbers have way more useable surface area and ensure that water can actually flow through the material. When people really insist on getting an answer on how much filtration is needed, I just tell them to make sure they are getting crystal clear water. If you aren't seeing crystal clear water on a tank that is done cyclin, you likely need more filtration media. Crystal clear water looks like water where your fish looks like they are floating in air. There are exceptions of course, but for the vast majority of people, this applies. Oh btw, while the partial nitrogen cycle is important, the the filter other main function is to prevent diseases in your tan. You will only achieve this if you have enough surface area that has been colonized by the microorganisms live alongside the nitrifying bacteria in your filters. These microorganisms control pests, parasites and infectious agents by literally eating and consuming them from the water column.

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What is all your opinions on “over-filtering”? Like there is obviously a way to not have enough filtration, but what about the opposite? Is it possible to have too much?

Best thing is a 1in dirted tank with a 2in sand cap then you don't need to spent all kinds of crazy money on filtration...

I came here ALL THE WAY from your shorts because your comments are disabled there, just to write this: 😧😧😧😧😧😧 YOUR VACUUM INSTRUCTIONS. ✨ENLIGHTENING✨. I've been going through SO MUCH WATER and cutting my cleaning short...this is such a game changer THANK YOU!!! (And I usually don't use this many emojis or caps, I'm just genuinely that grateful).

I'm way overpowered. I have a 27g cube with a Fluval 306 but I'm pretty sure the previous owner had a saltwater setup

This is perfect... I'm about to do a 260 gallon planted tank.

You need to hire a new camera man! just watched a short and you had great information but didnt see what was necessary

I get it but it's not possible to be over filtered..

I disagree with the over filtration. Not all of us want to do constant maintenance. If you have a higher filtration than what is required, I have found in my past 15 years of owning fish, more is better than less. I have a canister filter that can handle up to 150 gallons on a 15 gallon tank and it allows me to control the amount of flow and I can turn it up to act as a vacuum as I do only 25% water changes monthly. To each their own.

More filtering just means less maintenance required.

My rule is "go big or go home"

You're cannot overfilter your tank!

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Please add Turkish subtitles to your videos.

Oildry safetsorb meshbags with a little laterite powder has worked better than the best filter media on the market did. Highly recommend canister filters with this. it's just baked clay and crushed red baked clay. The ionic charge is what pulls the ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates into the bags, and the bacteria that live in the bags eat it, simple