Hello there, thanks for tuning in. I'm particularly excited today because I've got a new filter media. This one is something special. Now before I show you what it is, I'll show you how it evolved. This media here is called BioBone Ultra. It's extremely porous media. Very big, suitable for sumps, very big external filters, trickle towers, coi shower systems. It provides an awesome amount of space both externally and internally for bacterial colonisation, very receptive to bacteria. But when I first started selling this, I thought it's a little bit too big for a lot of the external filters used in aquariums. Therefore, I asked the guy that makes this for me if it was possible to make a media with this awesome porosity, same sort of texture, but smaller. He did just that. And that resulted in BioBone Mini Ultra. Now this stuff is getting rave reviews. Just check the feedback and ebay. It's truly excellent stuff. It just sucks the water into it, which I'll demonstrate now. Here's some BioHum Mini Ultra. Just picked out the bag at random. There you go. The demonstrate is just how porous that is. Actually the level of liquid in that cup is just about disappeared. It sucked it all up. Yeah, that sucked it up. That's the bottom. I'm going to have to refill it. And that's, oh, Christ, it's all of me fingers. But that is just ultra porous. But it has the convenient size to fit in overhead filters, small externals, small internals. Basically any filter, which has space for filter media, can use BioHum Mini Ultra. And I'm talking about fresh water and marine. I tend to forget about marine because in my shop, I only deal with fresh water, fish and equipment. But this stuff apparently, by the feedback, it has all the benefits of live rock with none of the drawbacks. Not being into marine fish. I don't know what the drawbacks are with live rock, but apparently this has none of them. Now I've got to think, is there a way to make this already awesome media even better. Now the makers of BioHum do a very small media, which is great for compact filters and overhead filters. It's called BioHum Plus, which is like a little hard stick. And it has added trace elements. So I asked if the BioHum Mini Ultra could possibly have those trace elements put into it. And after consultation with a chemist and a few failed attempts, this is the result. One thing we couldn't decide on is what to call it, whether I call it BioHum Mini Ultra Plus, which is a bit of a mouthful, or BioHum Ultimate. And because I don't think you can get a better filter media, we went with Ultimate. It really is the Ultimate Media. And here I'll demonstrate just how porous this one is. And this will be an interesting test. I haven't done a capillary test like this on this new media. I'm expecting it to be as good as the BioHum Mini Ultra, but with the added trace elements, I'm not sure it will be. So anything near that, and it'll be a good result. And you can just dip in the tip of it in. Oh yes. I would say that's pretty porous. So that's porous. It's got a massive surface area and it's got the trace elements. It's just unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable. And that's sucked a hell of a lot in there. That's hellish. Amazing. And now I'm going to have to wash my hands and the bench. And now we'll compare it to probably the main competitor, which is CKM Matrix. Right here, we've got some CKM Matrix straight out the top. I'm only going to dip the very tip of the media in there. And see how quickly it sucks it up. Give some idea of how porous it is. It's in there now. Come on. I'll just dunk it in. See if that makes a difference. Yeah, I think it's going up, but not very quickly. Actually, it's almost hell in the blooming. I've died out. Bear in mind that as far as I know, apart from the bio-home range, there's no other medias that come with added trace elements. And those trace elements have been carefully picked because they are essential for bacterial colonization. Yes, you do get them eventually in your filter. But if you've already got them added in your media, it cuts the already quick setup time with the bio-home media down to just a matter of two or three weeks, which is absolutely phenomenal. It's I'm just so happy to have this media. It's just it's excellent, really excellent. And I've just started selling this on a video. The links below if you're watching this on YouTube. And also, I've got it on our website as well. So it's more porous than the next best media. It's got the added trace elements. It's got a convenient size. In the surface area of this media is so phenomenally big because it's made of a very, very fine sand. Some people watching this are probably thinking this guy's just talking a lot of balls. And on the subject of balls, this media, in fact, all of the bio-home media, is made up of tiny balls. Tiny balls of silica sand. That sand is mixed with a bind in the agent. And in the case of this stuff, trace elements. It's pushed through an extruder. It's basically made into these little shapes. Then it's heat treated in a kiln. Everything sticks together. Makes it a really hard media. All these tiny little balls stuck together create a ridiculously big available surface area. It's not just a rock with tunnels in and various shapes. It is a massive surface area. But if you've already got filter media, you don't want to get rid of it. Anything from the bio-home range can be mixed in with your existing filter, whether it's ceramic or plastic. Actually, if it's plastic, you might as well just throw it away because it's next to no surface area on plastic media. Instead of upgrading your filter and getting the same crappy old media in it, upgrade the filter media. That is the best way to make the filter more efficient. This is the best media and it will make your filter as efficient as it possibly can be. Bear in mind that when external filters come from manufacturers invariably that set up wrong, if you check the link in the video description, I've done a video of how it's set up an external filter. Pretty simple really. You need three grades of form, course medium and fine followed by a media. So the water goes through course medium and fine. That strains out all of the particles in the water, clean water, then passes to your media. If you do it that way, it prevents this or any other media getting blocked up and it increases its life. This will last for years if you look after it, i.e. if you protect it from sludge and muck. Simply set the forms up and your filter properly will protect it and you'll get years of use out of this. If you're interested in buying this, click the link below, a supply worldwide. I think I've got it listed in 500 grams, which is 1.1 pounds. A kilo, which is 2.2 pounds. Three kilos, which is 6.6 pounds. Five kilos, which is 10.10 pounds and 10 kilo amounts, which is 22 pounds. Anybody who's wondering what a kilo of media looks like, because I'm aware that we really only use kilos in Europe and also in Australia, New Zealand, that is a kilo of media. And that takes up approximately 1.4 cubic liters of volume. If you're unsure how much you need for your filter, just send me the dimensions of the trays in your filter and I can work it out for you. No problem. One more thing that I really should mention, and it's not specific to buy home media, but it is specific to bacteria, is these little fellas, they are gel balls. And these balls contain a lot of bacteria. I'll give these away with all of the media that I sell. And it's pretty important because unlike liquid treatments, which could have been sitting on the shell for years in an anaerobic environment, you don't know whether the stuff's dead or alive, you don't want it all in one bowl. These dissolve over a period of one to three weeks in your filter or in your tank or in a moving bed filter that is either moving with your moving bed media. They dissolve slowly so they release a measured dose of bacteria, which is alive into your filter. That means that your filter gets set up very efficiently and naturally. You're not just dumping a load of dead bacteria in your tank from a liquid treatment. These are awesome.