e902 filter - new version (Amazon): geni.us/DSIRB e902 filter - new version (Ebay): ebay.to/2HyHxFx Taking a look at (and upgrading) the JBL e900 filter which is for 'Aquariums between 90 litres to 300 litres'. This is a decent little filter and although the 'pre-filter' tray doesn't add much to the filter it will extend maintenance times due to the extra coarse foams in the pre-filter making it a good choice for small to medium sized aquariums. Setting this one up is quite straightforward..... I only consider true filtration to be a full cycle which is the reduction of ammonia, nitrite AND nitrate hence the low figures - filters will not be nitrate factories when they are properly sized and properly set up. This series is all about trying to squeeze more efficiency out of internal and external aquarium filters which generally have a limited filtering capacity - If you have a filter you'd like me to feature in a video then please contact me on: sales@filterpro.co.uk 07772848730 (Richard) Anyone who sends a filter will have it upgraded and returned to them for free and the only cost you will pay is how much it costs to ship it to me - I'm helping to boost your filter and the resulting videos will hopefully be useful to viewers all over the world so it's a win/win. *Please do not send any filters without contacting me first as I want to try and cover every type of filter, not 20 of the same make and model* Due to the high international shipping cost I am currently only taking filters from the UK but I'm hoping that as this series progresses a useful database of knowledge will be built up which will help viewers understand how their filters work, the limitations and the steps you could take to improve filtering capacity and efficiency. The goal with any filter is to try and achieve FULL CYCLE filtration which is the reduction in ammonia, nitrite AND nitrate - if you look anywhere online you'll see people tell you that the nitrogen cycle in an aquarium ends with the production of nitrate which is removed by regular (often large) water changes. That is HALF the cycle and is done by AEROBIC bacteria which favors highly oxygenated conditions and is very easy to grow on any surface. The last part of the cycle (reduction in nitrate) is completed by ANAEROBIC bacteria which favors an environment which is very low or devoid of oxygen. It takes filter media with a very specific internal structure to support both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria to allow for full cycle filtration but a suitably sized, well set up filter, will allow the full cycle to complete which results in more stable water conditions and less water changes (typically 10% every 1-2 weeks). Canister filters will generally offer the best provision for filter media but even internals can be significantly improved to boost water quality and fish health. The following videos will be useful to anyone interested in learning more about filtration, bacteria and making the conditions for your fish as good as possible: Sizing a canister properly and filter set up: goo.gl/om19un Looking INSIDE different filter media: goo.gl/hZWS6c Bacteria and filter media: goo.gl/123gAF How to clean an aquarium: goo.gl/bPMhvh Aquarium tips / filtration playlist: goo.gl/pXgqVj Check out my channel for hundreds of videos on a wide range of my hobbies - many of the videos have educational content so if you have enjoyed any give them the thumbs up and share anywhere you think others may benefit from viewing. This channel is purely a hobby for me so I will never ask viewers to donate money for any of my projects or charge anyone for information - information should be shared freely and I certainly don't consider myself an 'expert' in anything I pursue as a hobby so please do your own research, never accept anything as 'fact', reject anyone claiming to be some sort of authority or 'expert' and make your own minds up about anything you wish to study. We all are on a long path of learning......... If you've enjoyed this video please check out the playlists on my channel for hundreds more - on a variety of subjects. Feel free to share or link any of my videos on facebook, twitter, forums etc. for the benefit of anyone you think may also enjoy watching. See you next time. Pondguru RECOMMENDED PRODUCTS ON AMAZON.com: goo.gl/jMaBWy INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/pondguru_outdoors/ FILMING EQUIPMENT: Panasonic HC-VX870 HD camcorder geni.us/3UwE +Rode stereo microphone: geni.us/4OL +Rode 'deadcat' mic cover: geni.us/1pmn JVC Everio quad proof HD camcorder: geni.us/e09e +Rode 'deadcat' mic cover (opened up and held between tripod and camera base) geni.us/dee24 Zomei Z666 tripod: geni.us/1a1af3 Manfrotto MTPIXI-B PIXI mini tripod: geni.us/87f7

This series is so enjoyable, than you for your time.

Richard because of your sharing of knowledge, I've setup 3 aquariums with the proper and "tweaked" filtration, my fish are very healthy and happy. I've always enjoyed all your videos and the patience you have explaining everything in detail. I'm able to pass on your knowledge and recommend all your videos to all my aquarium enthusiasts & friends. Keep up the awesome work!!

Every time Im watching your video's you have me glue to the screen. Thank Richard for all you do.

I love this series, really satisfying to see the final results. I really like the design of this filter, especially the way the water flows down the sides rather than through tube segments going through the media baskets which in my experience tend to be the most common points of failure in media baskets and also makes cutting foams more difficult.

I LOVE the book keeping! Keep the brain dumps coming to make us all wiser. Every video you do cements more our understanding of nitrogen cycle in every situation..... feeling like a genious when you make it so simple! Genious genus!

You are actually the Aquarium Guru u goes in every deepth of details

Just like my diy setup on this jbl 901 :) Following your setup advice from earlyer vids. Using it about 1year now. Working exelent in my 180l

Just bought this filter few weeks ago and now you are showing how to optimize it. I am a lucky guy ;).

Top job Richard. Really pleased with the end result. Thank you so much. Adam

Got the e701 yesterday, that's exactly how it came!

Pimping my jbl e901 right now! Thanks very very useful video! Cheers

Thanks for that mate my filter was set up completely wrong so will be sorting it tomorrow ,thanks again Richard 😊😊😉😉😆

Another great vid. Can't wait to see the other 2 once done.

Just got the 902... going to follow this. Thanks Richard !! And yes... it is how it comes from the manufacture... it’s round white balls .. they are like ball bearings !

Thank you Richard, Great Video as always! Will look forward to the next one!

Great video again Rich

Thank you for the great video. I setup my JBL Cristalprofi e902 just like you described. I sounded logical. However.... I was unable to get the water of my 125l tank clear. There was pollution in the water and the spraybar silting up. I check the filter and the cotton at the bottom was almost clear after 2 weeks. Now I added also a layer of cotton at the top basked, and in a day it was full of pollution, and the water was clean. So... I think there is still enough water flowing next to the baskets upwards.

Just two weeks ago I chucked out my MicroMec and added another kg BioHome. The solution to any filter is: MOAR BIOHOME! MOAR!

Been looking for someone to review this very helpfull! Thank you

As ever, spot on. I'm having great results with my bio ultimate. Best buy ever.

Great demonstration. Please, please address the Marina S10 on a future Pimp My Filter for us nano-tankers! A lot of us out there. Thank you!

Good job !!

Thanks Pondguru, that answered my eheim professional 3 filter as you mentioned it would in my previous comments :-)

Good day to you rich @ pondguru !! 👍👍😁😁 Thanks for sharing your thoughts, knowledge and experience on another fantastic ""Pimp my filter video"" 😁😁👍👍

Does the more dense foam that you have added not slow the flow of the water and make the pump struggle ?

Thanks good job,i gonna do my jbl e1501 tomorrow

I had this filter once, and loved the bucket and general filter design. Unfortunately also found the pump to be very weak. Pretty sure the moment that fine foam sucks up the minimal gunk, this filter flow cuts down massively

Another fine job! 👍😀

Thanks Richard. I think the maufacturers use the “not ideal” coarse foam because the fine stuff just blocks up so quickly. Maybe someone will make a mini version of the Bioforce Revolution filter I use on my pond, thats easy maintenance with fine foam.

Thanks Richard great video. The concerns I have is that dispite the pre filter foam the bottom foams will still clog up very quickly in practise and you got to strip the lot down to get to them. Filter socks on marine filters usually last 2 days then need cleaning.

hello how do you calculate a complete cycle of filtration? i have a 400 l tank, and i see your KZfaq videos about JBL and Aquael. I don't know which on to buy 700 or 900 for the jBL, or 1500 or 2000 for the aqueal. I'm thinking about your optimisation regards

Awesome awesome info thanks Richard😁

I got a e902 because it was on sale. I tried to make my setup as close as possible to the setup you made. But considering I had no real foams available at the time I just reused their original Foams filters.I did get some Filter Floss and a carbon pad) I also got JBL ball (don't remember the exact name), they also advertise the Anaerobic bacteria can settle within it and that it's effectiveness is way better then the past versions of JBL's Micromec (so they claim). So I used their medium. (Couldn't find the BIO Media you keep using in the shop I go to, so took my time finding one that mentioned the anaerobic bacteria) What I also did was cut out a small piece of foam to put on the intake in the aquarium to even further filter a bit ahead and prevent my little shrimps to get sucked in just to be safe. Now a question aside, maybe not specifically on topic is this: I had a chemist friend, who checked with another chemist who is also an aquarium keeper, saying it would be better for me to not include a carbon filter. What are your thoughts on this? Should or should I not include a Carbon pad?

Another GREAT informative video.. thank you

Nice! I just got my jbl e900 a few days ago for 10 bucks from a guy who stopped with aquariums. There were almost 2 kg of active coal 😂. It didn’t stop pouring gray water from the mesh. I think this must be the reason why he stopped

Very useful, would love to see a Tetra ex800 plus

Nice job

Thank you😊

or you could do away with the foams in the bottom tray and fill them with biohome ultimate and buy a pre filter or 2 to deal with the mechanical side of things, i have 2 pre filters in line and have my main canister filter full of biohome ultimate and it all works well, water parameters are bang on.... hope other people think of doing this as it means you dont have to disturb your canister filter, i have even put a pre filter in line after my canister filter to deal with the chemical side of things, its half full of biohome and half full of carbon pellets with carbon pad at the top to stop pellets going into tank, and a carbon pad to separate the biohome, works for me with no real loss of flow

How often should we open the impeller bit to clean it,? How to do it?

just been looking at this love the videos could you do a jbl cristalprofi e902 greenline setup i need hlep for the top tray on this one

Hi Richard , this filter seems to have a design flaw with the pre filter on top reducing the amount of bio media that the filter can take. You should design the perfect canister filter.

Where to get the foam pads and media? Thanks

thx , this is exactly the information i needed

My canister has 4 trays. Can I do two mechanical and two bio? Tray one with course, med, fine. Tray two with polyfil and bonded filter pad. Trays three and four filled with 1kg of biohome ultimate each. The flow rate on this canister is 360gph and its filtering my 60g tropical aquarium. Will filling these to capacity lower my turnover rate enough to make the filter less effective?

Found a webshop that sells BioHome and the exact same filter pads. Ordered the items and I have just rearranged my filter. One silly learning I had is that the tubes from JBL won't fit. It will only work with the Eheim Mech.

I have a 350ltr 4ft with fx6. Thinking of buying the jbl e902 & using it for just polishing water with mechanical & chemical media. Would you recommend this filter or somthing else pondguru?

Instead of foam, I roll up two pieces of filter wool that go into the bottom tray of my Fluval 406. Instead of cleaning them out, I chuck them away and replace.

What is the best place for purigen?

Great vids man, keep up the good work. Maybe do a video on how to clean a filter properly? A lot of mew people ask this all the time on forums.

Tnx man from nyc

These videos are awesome. Thank you! Please can you do a fluval 406.

Would love to see a video on a fluval 206 canister! In the USA so can't really send it! Great videos keep on pimping!

Hello I just got 2 kg of biohome ultimate I’m in Victoria Australia my canister filter is about 1 week away from its cycling how can I add this new biohome to my canister now can you please help

The white fine pad you use - is that like the woolly filter floss ?

I've been looking at some of your older videos. I'm new to the hobby, have you ever out fitted a Fluval 406? Thanks for the video's

Hi I tried to replicate what you done with this filter but even with one layer on the bottom it kept the other trays from seating in correctly I also tried breaking them but had to skip this and copy the rest of the trays is it possible that some of these have slightly different spacing at the bottom.

YOU CAN'T GO WRONG IF YOU LISTEN TO THE PONDGURU......

That media is glass I have 2 1501s they're a great filter

Hi Pondguru, i had order an e702 and would like to rearrange it, what material is that White fine sponge? And another question, the second box are full of volcanic lapilli? I'm so sorry of my english isn't good, so i hope you can understand me. Thank you for your Amazing channel... Have a good day... Tony

Great Stuff.

Any specific reason not to fill the top middle with biohome??

where does he buy all the sponges?

Hi. What about in this example to use two trays of mechanic (with the 3 layers of foams) and two biologic trays???

those ceramic balls would make awesome catapult ammo .

¿Y no pierde caudal con la modificación?

Hi Guru and all who are reading this, I am using "expanded clay aggregate" which is super cheap, super porous BUT it floats. Would you think using a coarse pad on top (or at the end of the filter flow) to prevent those clay pebbles to float around the outlet is necessary? It's not like they are small enough to go into the impeller, but maybe they will create noise and lower the flow rate.

It would be interesting to know JBL's rationale for originally fitting their bio media on the bottom! It never made any sense to me, but I went along with it. I once wrote to them and they replied that the filter is versatile, without offering an explanation for their idea of the setup.

why in some filters he put in the ground outside of thebasket the ceramic rollers and in some filters he doesn´t, i dont know if i should od that, thank you

Hi Pondguru, really enjoy your channel. I have a JBL 401e, if I use the same method as you have used on the 901e would it work the same?

Hi love the videos I have l learn a lot I am just settling up my aqua nano 60 and was wondering how you would set up a all in one tank Thanks Tony

Whats the name of that red bio media your using? This video has helped me alot. I still had the basic media in there but bit by bit im gonna change it al out

Hi I have this filter but could not put them in hole on the bottom so I had to break them in half or the lid would not sit correctly is that just as good

Hi Richard. A bit off topic but have you tried any low price video cameras or adapted an old phone to video underwater pond footage. I would like to lower my old phone into my pond to film a bit of underwater footage and wondered if you had any ideas for waterproof containers. Perhaps a project for KZfaq. Thanks cheers barry

How do I reduce the current/water flow from the filter? Is there a way to do so with the e900? I believe the current is too strong for my fish to properly swim. Thank you.

Great video and even more great chanel! But maybe the most strange question you have had since... Can this filter be used for a pound of 700 liters with 5 goldfish in it outside?

Had this canister Filter. That is how it comes from the manufacturer 😂

What about a jbl greenlife 1501e.? Do you have a movie or a sheet of the items You can do in there and how much

Since I have a eheim eco 300 i'll be very interested to see what you do with it, lookin' foward to that one!

Thanks for the tips. What is your take on adding charcoal to make water clearer and stop smell. If charcoal is to be added, where can it go in the chambers?

Morning Richard I’m sponsored by JBL so I’m definitely going to try and do what you have done ..... I have the e1502 and it’s an amazing filter ... I give this JbL filter away in one of my recent contests 🤗🤗🤗❣️❣️❣️❣️

I have a fx5 filter.got pre filter in top tray,and biomax in the other two trays.been like this for 6 years.so thought i try your way,which does make sense.so I changed the top pre filter tray to pond sponges.coarse then medium and fine.now it gets blocked in two weeks.the outlet was dribbling out.any help with be great.

Can you endlessly use your biological filtration material or do you have to replace them at some point of time?

Can we add 2 carbon filters on the top tray ?

Hii Pondguru i m from India.. U r videos r very knowledgeable regarding nitrogen cycle. I have Hydor Professional 600 canister filter for my oscar tank which is 135 gallon(510 litre tank) i m using as per manufacturer instructions still i need in depth how can i maximise my filteration. I have 4 adult size oscars..... U r reply must b appreciated... Thanks

If u have full cycle then there is no need for water changes?

Can you please do a pimp my filter episode on the tetra 800 canister filter

Another excellent vid，ever thoughts on pimping an fx6? Interested to see your concept. Keep these great vids coming.

Great video!! Thanks I'm going to set it up. How long will the Biohome Plus go befoer replacement?

Thanks a lot for the video..I really got all the info I needed and I did what exactly u did and I am having good results of 0 ammonia 0 nitrites and around 40-50 ppm nitrates for almost 2 weeks now so when do u advise me to do water change and when to clean out my filter??!

Hi Richard I have a question, I have a small marine nano tank with Bio Home media in an external filter which works great. I recently purchased a 250 litre tank that i'm going to use with a sump, my question is would it be possible to use Bio Home media in the sump instead of the usual rock rubble or coral sand for nitrate control

Hi Richard how shut you setup a jbl 702 e like you're videos 😃👍

Wow awesome video can you get the black and blue foam in a local fish store?

Hey watch these all the time ... waiting to see what u will do with fluval 306 🤞🏻

Thank you thank you thank You

I freshly own a Cristalfprofi e902 and a 240 Liter aquarium with 7 goldfish. I do 20% waterchange a week. For me the e902 is a fine filter, but noisy. What do you recommend for a silent upgrade? I was thinking about an Oase 350 or 600.

Hi, is this the same set-up as the JBL e1501? Also how often should I change the media and the pads?

hi im new to fish keeping i have a 4 foot fish tank 233 liters . and not sure what canister filter to get. i have been looking at the eheim pro 4 or the jbl 1902 and the oase biomaster 600. what one would u get . im moving house soon so will be setting up tank after xmas. just getting bits at mo to make a start. thanks

Hi. Can this setup be used on 190L tank with tropical fishes?