This is hands down the best video about Matten filters explaining exactly how they work. Thank you so much for making & posting this video! 🙏🙏🙏

5 year old video stands the test of time because of all the wonderful intelligent information. Thanks again!

Woo! We love Dr Tanner! He always has such great information to share! He's also just a very kind and personable fellow! Shout-out to Minnesota Aquarium Society!

Thanks for the in-depth interview on the Mattenfilters. Have been wanting to put one of these in one of my tanks, this really helps.

This is absolutely the BEST filter video I've ever seen! I just acquired a free 50 gal and stand that will be a goldfish tank. I have to start with cleaning and resealing, but am researching filters and such, dreading the expenses of filters and lights. After watching this, i will be going with a Mattenfilter on each end. I am in love with the idea of (almost) no maintenance and the sheer simplicity of it all. Thank you!

Awesome interview, he seems like a great guy. I've been seeing these hamburg mattenfilters more and more lately and it really makes me want to try one.

i could listen to that guy talk all day

They look really neat indeed and easy to use too ... great video Sean thanks for bringing us along with you 🤗 the corner filter looks good 😊

Great video and info, found by chance at the same time I'm looking into setting up a couple of mattenfilters from Swiss Tropicals. Thanks!

Awesome video, great info. Will definitely be ordering new filters from them when needed. Simplicity at it's best.

Amazing video. Great knowledge sharing and I appreciate him in explaining things in a way that's not insulting to the modest fish keeper

I have been using their foam for years in a freshwater sump and highly recommend it. Thanks for sharing the video.

have 5 20 long tanks with these matten filters, cleaned them once after about 10 months, realized they weren't that dirty, love the products they have

I use the corner filter in my planted tank,best filter I've ever used,you wont be disappointed!

This is the best mattenfilter video on youtube, I think it explains just about everything about them and is fair. The thing that the filter doesn't do is really polish the water. I run a HOB after waterchanges for about 2 hours with a fine filter pad to take out the finer parts. Also, using it's not easy to move some filter material from one tank to another as it is with the smaller spongefilters or bioballs. Still, I use them in my shrimp tanks and I love them.

Love your videos, especially this one! Great informative video on filters!

Great video! I have HMFs in a couple of my aquariums, and I love them!

Excellent interview.

Great interview!

Great video Pecktec!

I ordered two sets of corner filter for my 20 long and 10 gallon tanks doing cherry Shrimps in a planted tank, the filter is amazing and look pleasing to the eye. Only con I see is if you already have an establish tank. Mine were all newly setup so no issues for me.

Very informative interview! Thanks a lot!

I picked some up based on this video and from taking to LupDiesal at Aquatic Experience. Super excited to set them up!

Brilliant Filters

This is a very helpful video. Thank you

I got a corner matten filter from swiss tropical and its great. The customer service is awesome and he will ask you for all meserments to make sure everything is custom. the kits are also well priced. Love mine. Also Ted Judy has a great video for installing them.

I'm going to build my own mattenfilter soon. I've had my second leakage with my external filter pump (Eheim Professional 3E 600T), although in both occasions it was my own fault and the leak was in the piping, not the pump itself. I'm done with external filters. I read a lot about these mattenfilters and have decided it is the best option for my aquarium. I'm going to build a corner version, also because I have a lot of shrimp in the aquarium and they apparently feed of the filter and don't get sucked into the pump. The nice thing of the corner designs is that you can hide the pump and heater behind it, so they are out of view. I've even read stories of people who only have to clean their filter once a year. Wow!

as usual great video 👍👍💯

Most of my tanks use Mattenfilters from Swiss Tropicals. I mostly use powerheads behind the foam to get more surface agitation across a larger surface area.

echoing other really informative and helpful info video...well done

I needed this!!!! Sir, thank you!!! Seriously man.

great information. thank you very much

Someone mentioned these on wafishbox.com recently and peaked my interest. Great video. Makes me want to try one!

Just bought 1 because of this video,Thx

Please post an update on the 20g with the filter in the corner! :) I like their design for this, my biggest problem is getting it installed in an already established tank.

Cracking video.

Thx Pet!! Great Vid.... I actually watched the WHOLE video! I get it!!

Gr8 design👍 What's highest height would you recommend doing the regular hamburg matten filter so the foam stays in place and not collapse or fall over?

I just learned about these today I am setting one of these up as soon as I can. I am having crummy luck with a hang on back for my shrimp I think the flow is too much they populate then die off leaving about ten or so after they reproduce for some time, so I thought maybe just a good big sponge filter then I saw this video and thought right away thats what I want to do! I am gonna give this a go!

Im too using the same kind of filter( One side fully covered by foam) only 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,,,

Hi pectech whats the best sponge filter to use in a fluval marina 54 mine as a lid on with one tube light I was using a eheim filter but I was getting water down the back leaking and it was making my carpet wet the filter that came with the tank I did not like it because it took a cartridge with like white filter floss on it and in the cartridge was carbon and I dont like using it only for taking out fish medication would a sponge filter be ok in the tank i was just thinking that the water would splash up on to my light from the air lift tube the eheim pick up 60 I had running on it was very good but you had to clean it every month I wanted something I keep running a lot longer as I dont like putting my hand in and upsetting my fish so any good tips cheers happy fish keeping

Very interesting video. I first saw these described by Ted Judy; it looks to me like these are more for fishroom tanks than display tanks. Regardless, they seem insanely efficient.

Nice vid love it

Please don’t get me wrong but Europeans use this kind of filters very very often. Not the guys new to the hobby but the more advanced. About 10$ for the filter and 20-?$ for the pump. I built whole air circulations to maintain 20 tanks with one pump. It keeps you very flexible for a fraction of the price of canister filters. I use one canister filter for getting a lot of current. Not more.

Brilliant...

What were those round filters sitting on the bottom of the tank?

Hello my Aquarium world, this video is an awesome explaination of a filter set up........Sal Velasquez

What’s better for a 40 breeder pleco breeding tank Matten filter or the corner filter ?

I built my own with a 75 and a return pump 700gph air is for smaller tanks

I got the box one but don’t know where do I connect the air pump too

impressive

Really like the concept and ST products. But the shipping to Singapore is really expensive :(

I'm a total beginner at thinking outside the box, but love what I'm hearing about the Matten filters. So, will you please show me your corner filter with the pump attached. I imagine it would look very neat with the underwater pump rather than the air pipe (?) The tank I'm thinking about a corner filter for is only a 50 gallon. It came as a kit with a canister filter that doesn't cope very well with the bio load even though the tank is not overstocked, and an extra internal Aqua One Max 104F that I bought to help it.. Together they are doing a good job as long as I clean them every 1-2 weeks but... if this Matten filter could do it better...?

I picked up some open cell filter foam, for 1st time attempt at making an HMF. it was recommended that I use 3 different densities,. while an HMF isn't supposed to be more than 3" thick.. each foam slab is 2" thick.. so: obviously too much as-is for 30/ 35gal tanks. > How hard is it to successfully make a horizontal cut in each piece? > Any recommendations on halving these? (would a cheap hotwire kit, or electric knife be overkill?) > if I had 1"x1" wood pieces, should I wing it & use those as guides for cuts? -just don't want to reinvent the wheel if someone's tried/failed that already- Thanks for your expertise & advice-

Can this product be used to upgrade a canister filter?

@16:00 I run multiple sheets and just pull the front one clean and place at back and rotate

Good video 🔔👍😁

Can I use a powerful power head in 125 gallons tank?

Are matten filter effektiv for a 300 l tank😃

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Can this work with a canister filter. Fx6

Good luck trying to diy that jet lift loll I tried to figure out how to make that grey piece but rather just buy them and save time

Off the hook video" will for sure check them out"

One word of caution that I found at the cost of many fry. I wouldn't recommend the Matten filters if you are feeding baby brine shrimp. What I found is the bbs will pass THROUGH the Matten filter and build up on the backside. Eventually the BBS on the back side rots and results in a bacteria bloom and destroys water quality. Other than the issue with feeding baby brine, I love Matten filters just baby brine are too small.

where can i can perot foam in India ?

Well, corner filter is a no go... I just don't want to drain this new tank and all the work I've done on it. So, my idea, since I have a Betta is to get 2 Mattenfilters set for 10 gal tanks (still my 20L) then gang them to a good air pump. I'm not sure if this hypothesis is good, but ... I so far have this as an idea. I don't mind the squares in the tank since I have plenty of "stuff" to hide them partially behind. If anyone has info on my idea as good or bad, please feel free to have at it ! I have thick skin... really !

Hey Sean ! Sorry I fell behind a little watching ! But by far this video was one of your best. Talking to a very intelligent man. This is the European style ! How it differs to a north American one. There they do quality and lasting and yes a little more money but it's like things in a regular store or stuff in the dollar store. Last you longer the quality one and may be double or even triple the price but last 5 to 10 times longer. So yes the dollar store stuff way cheaper but you need to keep buying more and more polluting and wasting. The European Swiss or German stuff is to make quality so people go back to by it. The American is make it cheap and mass produce and you going back cause people here are cheapskate. Also here the third largest population in the world so that what works here. Like even the cars : (I like American cars) So the Germans makes the Benz and the BMW and comparison about 20% more money then the American counterpart. But last you about 30% longer and don't break down that easy ! So this is where and why the European product are much better and he stated it here the mass production and the cheap stuff goes not the quality. This is why China is booming and we suffering cause we buy all those cheap stuff that last a day. You know what I mean ! In the last 35 years that is what we got to costume to. Hard to kick the bad habit ! Also you can see the same thing in the Discus breeding. In Asia they have tanks all bare nothing in it not even filter just some food a breeding pair and daily 30% water changes and they mass produce them and sadly their immune system so weak many of them dies when you take them home or you received them in mail. Or some local hobbyist breeding them in planted and community tanks and those stay alive when you take them home. That is why the European product much better then the American mass produced stuff even in fishes ! Have a fish room here is a task and job there you have more time to enjoy it as a hobby and least work. That is why many people gives it up sadly ! Nuff said I really liked this vid Sean and rest a sure I'll be getting some of those mesh/sponge materials and make my own filters like Joey does with the European material. The cheapest and the longer lasting better material that I use ! Thanks again Sean ! PS: Shhh I'm half German ! lol

i use mattenfilter on all my aquariums. i made a mattenfilter paludarium. you can check it out if you want to, i made a video about it. cheers.

$110 dollars for a piece of foam?

very good video. Oh, so he has a Ph.D. in Human Molecular Genetics!

If you are poor ... forget about Swiss tropicals!!! Crazy expensive!

I can´t understand... He says that 10 litres of air puts out 40 Litres of water... How is that possible?? Pls enlighten me !!

I want to try the corner filter for my 20L. I have a Betta and I know he would be a lot happier without the horrid current of a power filter but at the same time I have this loooooong-ass length to keep alive... so, I'm going to drop a corner filter in with an airstone and an angled pipe as seen in the vid but keep below the waterline by maybe two inches... and see how that goes. I do think I'll have to use a pump rated higher than 20 gals but thinking it may work. I just don't want that water flow/disturbance I see in the example tank. Anyone with comments pls.. post! I'm no expert I'm just human.

Swiss Tropicals sells variants of filter material. Disappointed no comparison was made among filter material variants. Not all the same.

WOW THEM BOYS KNOW WHAT TO CHARGE. JUST MADE FIVE OF THEM FOR ABOUT £22.OO, WITH MATERIAL OVER FOR ANOTHER THREE. I SUPPOSE IT'S GOT SOMETHING TO DO WITH BEING SWISS, OR IS THAT SWINDELL.