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!
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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!
It’s been doing great so far. I just added a canister behind this one but it was still doing fine without it. I decided I wanted more flow in the tank.
@@pecktec I will try it for sure I might do the power head behind it see how much flow is first. I am gonna start another ten gallon I have one ready go, super low tech😁
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.
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 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-
@@pecktec thanks..I might try a horizontal cut, using perhaps some 1x1 wood as guide.. I saw a furniture manufacturer doing foam cutting demonstration of furniture foam but he did pretty good with it in instructing home users to use a bread knife and very gently sawing it without compressing it. Will take other suggestions/experience ahead of my own assumptions.. thx!
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,,,
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.
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...?
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
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.
the ones I have were the 20ppi size, it may be that the higher ppi would filter out the baby brine. I just only have experience with the 20ppi ones. Other than the one problem with baby brine, I'm sold on matten filters. I just make sure to use a normal sponge filter when I'm feeding baby brine.
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 !
aaaheim my guess is that a Litre is a measurment of volume and air is a gas that compresses, whereas water is a liquid that doesn't compress. OR it has someting to do with boyency ratios of air to water, where air is so much less dense that it can lift a volume of water proportional to that difference in their boyencies.
The air bubbles going up the tube draw water with them. What he is saying, is by bubbling 10 liters of air, 40 liters of water rise up too. Keep in mind that the water is likely not being raised above the water line of the tank. It is just a measure of water flow through a submerged pipe where some bubbles are going through.
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.
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.
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This is hands down the best video about Matten filters explaining exactly how they work. Thank you so much for making & posting this video! 🙏🙏🙏
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!
+Nancy Ware very cool I bought a corner filter and used it my my latest tank. It’s really great.
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!
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.
i could listen to that guy talk all day
Yeah, no kidding.
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!
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'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!
They are great for that and babies also.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I use the corner filter in my planted tank,best filter I've ever used,you wont be disappointed!
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 have been using their foam for years in a freshwater sump and highly recommend it. Thanks for sharing the video.
Great video Pecktec!
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!
It’s been doing great so far. I just added a canister behind this one but it was still doing fine without it. I decided I wanted more flow in the tank.
@@pecktec I will try it for sure I might do the power head behind it see how much flow is first. I am gonna start another ten gallon I have one ready go, super low tech😁
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 picked some up based on this video and from taking to LupDiesal at Aquatic Experience. Super excited to set them up!
+Joseph Escalante Very cool! I'm doing a corner filter this weekend be sure to stop by on Sunday and take a look.
I'm guessing the corner filter in the video is the one you're referring to? I never did see one end up in a tank.
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.
@16:00 I run multiple sheets and just pull the front one clean and place at back and rotate
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 😊
This is a very helpful video. Thank you
What’s better for a 40 breeder pleco breeding tank Matten filter or the corner filter ?
Excellent interview.
Brilliant Filters
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 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
Amazing video. Great knowledge sharing and I appreciate him in explaining things in a way that's not insulting to the modest fish keeper
Great video! I have HMFs in a couple of my aquariums, and I love them!
Can this product be used to upgrade a canister filter?
Yes
Awesome video, great info. Will definitely be ordering new filters from them when needed. Simplicity at it's best.
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-
All the ones I saw were just one piece. It cuts the other way pretty well but I haven’t seen anyone slice it like bread.
@@pecktec thanks..I might try a horizontal cut, using perhaps some 1x1 wood as guide.. I saw a furniture manufacturer doing foam cutting demonstration of furniture foam but he did pretty good with it in instructing home users to use a bread knife and very gently sawing it without compressing it.
Will take other suggestions/experience ahead of my own assumptions.. thx!
What’s your name say in gallifreyan?
@@pecktec I just used a Gallifreyan English translator for my name
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,,,
What were those round filters sitting on the bottom of the tank?
My daughter has one of these and rely lieks it.
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.
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...?
Check out the into the woods playlist I showed the filter being assembled. I made a funky spray bar but you really just need a small pump and a hose.
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 informative interview! Thanks a lot!
Great interview!
Really like the concept and ST products. But the shipping to Singapore is really expensive :(
Love your videos, especially this one! Great informative video on filters!
Someone mentioned these on wafishbox.com recently and peaked my interest. Great video. Makes me want to try one!
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.
What! That’s crazy! Thanks for the heads up. I guess they are pretty small.
the ones I have were the 20ppi size, it may be that the higher ppi would filter out the baby brine. I just only have experience with the 20ppi ones. Other than the one problem with baby brine, I'm sold on matten filters. I just make sure to use a normal sponge filter when I'm feeding baby brine.
Very cool I hadn’t even thought of that.
where can i can perot foam in India ?
There is a link to this guy (swiss tropicals) in the description. Im sure he has contacts that can help you.
echoing other really informative and helpful info video...well done
Can this work with a canister filter. Fx6
Yes Rachel OLeary uses one like that as sort of a prefilter.
great information. thank you very much
Are matten filter effektiv for a 300 l tank😃
+Aquaranha Haack you can make them work in any size tank.
Cracking video.
Just bought 1 because of this video,Thx
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
you could just put the air stone IN the tube as a diy tube like he showed art the beginning of the video.
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 !
$110 dollars for a piece of foam?
Gary Mayo I was shocked at the $20 price for a piece of foam to go over my intake tube. It cost more than some filters.
Buy bulk sizes cut to what you need, nothing compares to hmf in my mho
as usual great video 👍👍💯
Brilliant...
I needed this!!!! Sir, thank you!!! Seriously man.
+UNDERDOG THE DJ sure man. I have an install video too.
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.
Hello my Aquarium world, this video is an awesome explaination of a filter set up........Sal Velasquez
👍👍👍
Thx Pet!! Great Vid.... I actually watched the WHOLE video! I get it!!
impressive
Nice vid love it
Off the hook video" will for sure check them out"
Good video 🔔👍😁
I can´t understand... He says that 10 litres of air puts out 40 Litres of water... How is that possible?? Pls enlighten me !!
aaaheim my guess is that a Litre is a measurment of volume and air is a gas that compresses, whereas water is a liquid that doesn't compress. OR it has someting to do with boyency ratios of air to water, where air is so much less dense that it can lift a volume of water proportional to that difference in their boyencies.
The air bubbles going up the tube draw water with them. What he is saying, is by bubbling 10 liters of air, 40 liters of water rise up too. Keep in mind that the water is likely not being raised above the water line of the tank. It is just a measure of water flow through a submerged pipe where some bubbles are going through.
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.
If you are poor ... forget about Swiss tropicals!!! Crazy expensive!
They are much less expensive than canisters, hob, or anything with a motor in it. They are like $32 at the most. Pack that in your Fluval G3.
very good video. Oh, so he has a Ph.D. in Human Molecular Genetics!
I'm doing my PhD in molecular genetics, it's inspiring to hear he earned a degree in the field
Swiss Tropicals sells variants of filter material. Disappointed no comparison was made among filter material variants. Not all the same.
Next time I run into him I’ll do that. At the time I had no idea how deep the rabbit hole went.
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.
Porett foam? Also your caps lock is on.
Can I use a powerful power head in 125 gallons tank?
Yup