Hello there, welcome back again. This is another episode of Pimp My Filter. Now normally, I would have the filter just down here and I would lift it up and see. This is what we're going to be taking a look at. But this one is so damn long, I'm going to have to go into the next room and get it. More care. That is our filter. Roughly a yard, maybe it's just less than a yard or just less than a meter wide. And there's two versions of the 980 tank. There's a 980 and a 980T. And we'll work hard enough to keep the fish happy and healthy. Now let's take a look at it. I'll bring the camera in. Let me have a look. Right, now you'd normally have a pump sitting in your tank underneath here, which would pump water through here, go through the spray bar and it would actually go through all of these trees at the same time. All come to you in various things. So we'll shower through here. And we've got to slits in the bottom. Into this good sort of thing here and back out to your tank. Now there's all sorts of stuff in here. That actually feels like the aqua-worn rings, which are actually a pretty good ceramic ring. A lot of ceramic rings are awful, quality, but the aqua-worn ones are pretty good. So if you are going to go for a ceramic ring, that's a good one from aqua-worn. So we've got four bags of those. We've got a random block of form with a coarse form on the top. In the next section, we've got a very big bag of carbon. The size of that you certainly don't need all of that. And in the next section, we've got again coarse form and just some random forms. These are actually often air-driven filter. And that's a pretty good form. You get a lot of mechanical action and also quite a lot of bacterial action in there as well, because it's quite a fine form. So you know, that's not a bad choice, but we can do better. We've got the spray bar out the way and the lid out in here. Right over here. One, two, three. And I'll take these trays out and lay them here so you can see everything that's happening. So we've got the big long tray, a little stubby tray, and another big long tray. Let's get this open as well. Okay, this is a really, really easy setup. Overhead filters are exceptionally simple, very, very easy to maintain, especially as you can just lift the lid off and you're straight into the forms. And with the right media, they're actually very, very efficient. They're just good filters. Just very good filters. A lot of people don't bother with these on the big aqua-worn tags, but it should. You know, there's a lot of folks just empty these out completely and put an external filter on, but you can get a lot of biological action and also easily enough mechanical action in these three trays. Now, when this comes from aqua-worn, you've got the coarse form over your media, but then on top of that, you've got like cartridges which have a fine pad and carbon in them. And that's actually on the top. That's the way the aqua-worn tell you to set them up. But what happens when you do it that way is water comes through the spray bar, falls down, it hits fine pad first, so it just clogs it up straight away, and you get the water overflow on the sides. And that's a problem for two reasons. First of all, you get a sealed effect on the top, so the water's just flowing straight over the top. You need to maintain them all the time because of that, and these things are quite expensive to buy. I'm assuming that's why there's none of these cartridges with this filter because this has been running at some point. Those cartridges are expensive, and you don't need them. If you did choose to use the cartridges, however, they would go underneath the coarse foam, so the water hit the coarse foam first, and then it hit the fine pad, and then it hit the carbon, and then it hit your media. It's a slightly cut-eyed way of doing it, but it's certainly better than having the fine pad on the top. We're not going to actually be using these coarse pads, so we'll take those out. We're not going to be using the media, so we'll take that out. Yep, we're not going to be using the carbon. I'll take that out as well, and we're not going to be using these old foams. I am, however, going to leave all that stuff there because I'm going to give that back to Don, who sent me the filter. Just in case she doesn't like what I do, she can put it back exactly how it was. That gives us three empty trays. Now, obviously, we're going to put filter media in here. We're going to go with bio-home ultimate. So I'll fill all those trays up until they're about an inch to inch and a quarter off the top, and then I'm just going to put one foam. I'm not going to put a fine pad because it's going to clog up pretty quick. I'm not going to put a coarse pad because then that means we've got to put a fine pad underneath. I'm going to go for one that's between the two. That's a medium density pad. And really, that is going to catch very fine muck. It's going to catch coarse muck as well, and it's not going to clog up very quickly. See the dimples on the top? When the war falls into there, it has a lot of surface area to hit. If you did have a fine pad, I suppose you could put that underneath if you've got space, but I want to maximise the space for biological media. I'm sure this foam will be good enough as the mechanical media. What's the size of it? We've got up here just over five inches. So that's about 12 and a half centimeters by roughly 10 inches, 26 centimeters. Get some forms cooked for this, and then we'll chuck some medialion. Really, that'll be about it. Awesome. Perfect. Right, you're going to get all three pads out of one 17 by 11 inch square pad. Well, not square pad, rectangle pad. So that works out pretty well. One, two, and three. Awesome. Actually, I've changed my mind. I'm not going to put bio-worm ultimate in here. I'm going to put bio-grabble in here. We're going to get maximum surface area in these small trees when we use the bio-grabble. Most definitely. Because the pump isn't super powerful, and the floor is very spread, very controlled, what was easily going to get through here. It's basically a shower filter. Okay, so we'll just run through how it works. Pump, pumps water up here. Lands on all of these forms, goes through the forms, then it goes through the bio-grabble, of which we have a lot. Comes out the bottom of the trees, and it goes back through a special fitting into the tank. That is a really, really quick and easy way to modify this particular filter to get it to work really, really hard. There's quite a lot of filtration happening in there. Certainly enough mechanical filtration, and really, for a normally stopped tank, we're way over the top on the biological side as well. You could probably even afford the sacrifice this middle one, and put your carbony, if you want carbon as well, you've got enough scope here for certainly a normally stock tank, creeping up towards a heavily stock tank. So it's all good. So there you go. All that stuff's going back along with a fully upgraded overhead shower filter. Shower filters are pretty good, so whatever you do, don't rule them out. If you're looking at a new tank, and it's got an overhead shower filter in as long as it's got a decent depth to it, you can get a lot of filtration in there. So hopefully this video has given you the confidence to at least consider getting the tank with an overhead shower filter. 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