5 Simple Tricks to Improve Your Aquarium Filter

‎ Aquarium filters are important for fish because they help keep the water clean, oxygenated, and safe for your fish to live in. Learn about Cory's top 5 easy hacks for optimizing your filtration.

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[lindawirth]

Never thought of putting the air stone in the hob .. Some great advice

[kerrypitt]

I've been making my own sponge inlet filters. Since I can't get that coarse sponge from you up here yet, I buy the sponge that goes in your eavestrough to keep it from plugging up. It is that same coarseness. I have followed your suggestions for hot rodding filters since your earlier videos. I have never bought another cartridge for any of my filters.

[danmolstad]

Thanks for the great tips. One of the things I love about this hobby is that there is always more to learn. I really like how Corey’s tips are simple and effective.

[amymandeville]

Those Ziss no clog air stones I got from you are hands down the absolute BEST I've ever used! I've never had one break and they really are no clog.

[kowboyra]

I've had a fish tank for a year, but it's looked like crap the whole time. I bought it for my son who is young and loves to stare at the fish. I think I've learned more in 10 minutes from your videos than I have in the past year googling random things. All I can say is I'm impressed. Subscribed.

[brianholdridge]

I agree, often less is more. I had a large canister filter, inline UV on a 125g tank. The return water line leaked water while I was at work. I would estimate 20g in the carpet. Years later, I only have acrylic tanks with HOB and/or sponge filters. Lesson learned.

[Gobrian]

Best part of Sunday night before bed is the one on one video with Cory. Love these keep up the great work!

[kingnote]

Thank you for the carbon sheet hack for sponge filters! I mostly have nano aquariums, and only use sponge filters for my shrimp, snails, and bettas. Super handy to know!

[biancavelazquez]

Thanks Cory for always being my go to guide to keeping aquariums running smoothly, I also love your products!!

[juliaheinritz]

Fantastic video!! Thanks for sharing this. I have a small quarantine tank that has had several meds added. Now that my little Geophagus is healthy and ready to go into his forever home I will wrap the Aquarium Coop sponge filter with a carbon pad to help absorb these meds. I wasn't sure what to do with that tank so this has been very helpful. Thanks again!

[DocNo]

My grandparents and parents quilted and so I was exposed to quilt batting at a very young age. At some point I noticed it looked an awfully lot like the stuff that the filter cartridges were made from, so the next time I went to replace a cartridge I just ripped the factory floss off of the frame, cut a pice of quilt batting slightly larger than the filter frame, wrapped it around the frame and jammed it in the filter - and what do you know - it worked perfectly! I've been doing it ever since. Quilt batting is cheap, readily available and a large roll of it can last you forever if you only have a few tanks. I still have partial rolls kicking around even though I don't currently have a tank up.

I also make a cylinder of it, wrap it around an old under gravel filter lift tube and presto - instant sponge filter.

[terrymartins]

Really loved that tip on putting an air stone in the HOB filter!!!

[bryanhaller]

Another great video! You're the man Cory. You get referenced by so many Aqua youtubers now. Well deserved. Some of the best content my man. Thank you!!

[Elquinjena]

that was a new tip, about putting an air stone IN the HOTB, thank you for this and I am going to add that to mine today!

[reyC]

I really like this new style of video. 5 min tips are the best

[sweetpea]

This is why I like your channel, info for everyone from the beginner to the long timer!

[goldeaglekroll]

I've always liked KISS method for my tank. So when I remodeled my tank. I attached my canister filter to a undergravel filter. Along with some filters on air stones. I have been able to maintain a good balance.
Thanks for another informative video.

[jigokutsuushin]

A veteran fish keeper and breeder I've talked to agrees with using less filtration. He said: you'd be suprised how much a properly cycled sponge filter can support.

[TheSnakeOil]

That B roll of Dean putting his glasses on…😭😭😭

[Andrew-frbp]

I 100% agree with keeping filtration simple.

I've switched to mainly using layers of foam sponge pads in my filters over the years, and drastically reduced all the fancy bio-media I ran before.

If the primary filter is adequate, adding a simple POWERHEAD instead of a new filter is more cost effective, uses less electricity, plus yields practically the same results.

A good trick is to keep the powerhead on a timer so it runs only during the day and gives the fish a rest at night.

As it turns on in the morning, it will stir up anything settled on the floor overnight so the main filter can suck it up.

No reason to add a second $150 canister filter to a tank when a $30 powerhead will work great, especially if an Aquarium Co-Op sponge is attached to it's intake !

Also, I thought I knew most of the hacks but I've never heard or thought about wrapping a sponge filter with a carbon pad. That's a fantastic idea!

Keep up the great content Cory!