LARGE cheap and easy DIY fish tank filter - AQUARIUM GALLERY UPDATE - The king of DIY

interesting filter concept. this should work great, but have you considered what you will do when the containers (trash cans) start breaking down and leaching phosphates, sulfates, and other nasties into your system?

For the aquaponic plants, I’d recommend putting an air stone under each net cup. The roots might be having a hard time getting enough oxygen

Fish keepers are lunatics (but in a good way ) ❤ lol

Wow nice idol

Lots of talking.

Grow some ganja it’s kinda easy

Joey, I know you have heard it before but "thank you" for the inspiration and dedication.

Keep in mind those air pumps run hot and end up blowing hot air into the tank. Please monitor this. When these pumps start to go bad, that is definite first thing it does is over heats and gets hot. This happened to me and I lost a few fish. Typically i noticed 5-10 degrees warmer on normal days.

Does anyone know what that air pump is that was super quiet??! Need to know

The Golden Retrieve staring you down out the window the entire time you built the filters🤣🤣🤣🤣


Also if the second filter basin return is up high then the filtration wouldn't work in the s3cond you'd need it at the bottom...correct?

I have a question for you, why not run BCB baskets in the return barrel? You could make 2-4 baskets and stack them so you could rotate fresh media if you see Nitrates getting higher without losing all the bacteria at once and having to wait for it to re-grow. You could even build trays and use BCB bags and get the same outcome.

Good timing Joey, this is exactly what I was going to do to my 1200!

It is called a dremmel the tool with the blade.

anoying dude... cant watch

Hey Joey what about food grade silicone lube to get them in?

This video aged well...lol

Tell me I’m not the only one that jumped when the hose pump hose flew out lol nice jump scare Joey

I know this video was a while ago but if that canister filter is full of sand then it’s the same ones they use for salt pools and the reason it’s stopped filtering adequately is because the sand slowly rounds like sea glass, this means you get channels in the sand that water flows through without being filtered. Best way to fix it is to use a Venturi pump to remove the bulk of the sand then a wet vac to get the last bit then just replace it with new sharp sand 😊

Run the hole saw in reverse after first getting the center hole. Way smoother end result.

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Part 2?

Fantastic video, would love to see the filter running on a tank.

Can you make a video to show us how to clean all of your aquariums pls

Where is part 2?

I need to know. How do you get the water into the first trash can without a pump and or worrying about it clogging? That's my problem with my tank is my pump clogging up.

Joey can you incorporate Dr. Novak’s BCB Filtration with your ideas , after all, I notice all you care about is the health of the fish

What kind of pump do you use for that huge filter. I wanna make one too plz comment.

Nice one for you how to video just found you channel. I’m in the middle of making a bio filter for my pond and was looking for ideas.

Call me naive but I'm new at this what does putting water from one tub to the other do what can it do for my fish tank and how does filtering the water like that make it better for the fish

Your water bill has to be atrocious lol

Great information and inspiration

can you diy a camera that will focus?

Did the school of lions fish ever happen?

I am CACKLING. 🤣🤣 That hose blowing out of the can killed me. Lmfao

Hey there I watch your videos on how to build a aquarium stand. Well I copied you to a T! It came out great! 😂😂. Anyway I have a 125 gallon w two fluval 407's packed Seachem matrix and a fluval 307 with sponges and chemical! Is that enough filtration. When you get a chance please let me know. 😂

Have you tried beveling the pipe edges a bit and then use the soap to install them through the bulk heads?

Are all those fish tanks in your house or in a out building

My eyes died looking at the bins

It should be easy for you to insert those pipes , you've got muscles .

A rasp would clean up those holes nicely.

If you take the black cover off that loud pump you'll see there that noise is coming from and you can put some cotton and quiet it down alot I did

heat gun will melt those fibers away

one year later...rip out everything building a 16ft tank....:D

Joey can I ask for a filter design were the Pump is at the end after all the media, I have a feeling that running the aquarium water straight to the pump first will get it dirty faster and I’m tryna have to clean it atleast as possible, if I was to make something like this I would have to dedicate a bin just for the filter at the end, then make sure I have piping running from the pond to the first bin, thank for helping me visualize my idea now time to sketch!

Run hole saw in reverse for a cleaner hole

ADHD

you can do better than this

You work to fast. are you really enjoying the builds? Or just to put videos out?