New 'Mega' Foams for Sumps, Shower Filters and Big Aquarium Canister Filters.
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- These are new foams I've had specially made to my specifications and they can be found on my website: www.filterpro.co.uk (foams page).
Dimensions are 17" x 11" x 2" (432mm x 280mm x 50mm) and they have a very deep profile of approx. 1.5" (38mm) - I may have got the height of profile wrong in the video caption (I think it says 32mm).
I also have the foams listed on ebay - just search for 'mega foams' or the seller 'Filter Man UK' and they will come up. Failing that search for 'Biohome Ultimate' and my listings will come up.
Please note: these are not acoustic or furniture foams - they are aquatic foams which are not treated with a flame retardant. A chemical flame retardant will do your aquatic system no good.
Ebay will add some crazy taxes and high international shipping prices if you're outside the UK which is why I always advise buying directly through the FilterPro site if you are not in the UK.
Check out this post from my 'community' page on my TH-cam channel - it has some excellent reports about how well the Biohome works towards a full cycle: / @pondguru
What makes this extra special is that I didn't ask for people using Biohome to post their reports in the comment section, they just did - and that is really awesome since I have an advertising budget of £0 and will never pay for 'reviews' or any sort of promotion online.
Thanks to everyone who posted there and feel free to share that post to anyone wondering if Biohome works. It does.
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These are new foams I've had specially made to my specifications and they can be found on my website: www.filterpro.co.uk (foams page).
Dimensions are 17" x 11" x 2" (432mm x 280mm x 50mm) and they have a very deep profile of approx. 1.5" (38mm) - I may have got the height of profile wrong in the video caption (I think it says 32mm).
I also have the foams listed on ebay - just search for 'mega foams' or the seller 'Filter Man UK' and they will come up. Failing that search for 'Biohome Ultimate' and my listings will come up.
Please note: these are not acoustic or furniture foams - they are aquatic foams which are not treated with a flame retardant. A chemical flame retardant will do your aquatic system no good.
Ebay will add some crazy taxes and high international shipping prices if you're outside the UK which is why I always advise buying directly through the FilterPro site if you are not in the UK.
Check out this post from my 'community' page on my TH-cam channel - it has some excellent reports about how well the Biohome works towards a full cycle: th-cam.com/channels/MK3tSLPaPHQH-wCm-e2Z8Q.htmlcommunity?lb=UgkxFdgRRt6GxA1o3ffDzsF5dbOaB5xAuoFX
What makes this extra special is that I didn't ask for people using Biohome to post their reports in the comment section, they just did - and that is really awesome since I have an advertising budget of £0 and will never pay for 'reviews' or any sort of promotion online.
Thanks to everyone who posted there and feel free to share that post to anyone wondering if Biohome works. It does.
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+Rode 'deadcat' mic cover: geni.us/1pmn
JVC Everio quad proof HD camcorder: geni.us/e09e
+Rode 'deadcat' mic cover (opened up and held between tripod and camera base) geni.us/dee24
Zomei Z666 tripod: geni.us/1a1af3
Manfrotto MTPIXI-B PIXI mini tripod: geni.us/87f7
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any updates on the bio rock release?
Fantastic stuff!
I appreciate you sharing. Thankyou very much.
The 134th like is now up.
Have a great Weekend.
Take care, Sir. 🤙🏼🙂🤙🏼❤️
Hi, Can I put sand in my biorb over the top of your foam n bio substrate? Thank you
Those foam pads are essential for any aquarium filter. Highly recommend. The Pond Guru is the G.O.A.T when it comes to anything Aquarium. I purchased 4 pounds of his Bio Home Ultimate media over 8 year ago, they've held up and look as if I purchased them yesterday. That's the quality this man puts into all his products. Thanks again Mr. Guru. Keep Grinding out these Great Products. Many Blessings Brother.
Thanks for the glowing report and props. I'm glad that the media is still working well for you and you appreciate the videos - thanks for watching.
Same here. Had my foams and biohome for at least 6-7 years now. Except for a little left over Eheim biomech that came with some of my filters that’s the only media I run in my 8 tanks
@@kjetilmedhus7363 That sounds awesome to me and it's exactly what I want to hear. There is no need to change foams until they fall apart and no need to change filter media every 6 months (which most of the main manufacturers advise) - that is ridiculous. Filter media should almost last for ever and with the Biohome you just need to bake it in a hot oven for 45-60 minutes of you think it's lost some efficiency (after 6-10 years) to burn off organic matter and re-open passages but most people don't bother 'fixing' something which isn't broken.
It's great to get your feedback so thanks for that. Most people don't bother to comment one way or the other.
From last comment, I have also got a big bag of Biohome buried in the tank under the gravel. With slow undergravel filter running....
That will do it and the media / bacteria doesn't care where it is in the system as long as it is being fed.
Really nice foam. I wish it would be easy to ship these to Dubai, but it's not worth the headache just for a few bucks of foam.
You always work so hard to make our hobby more fun and efficient.
From the FilterPro site I ship worldwide and I mark the value down as being no more than £20 no matter what you order so that will save on import taxes - nobody should be playing that game.
Well when I next clear out my sump I will definitely get some of this mega foam. I have been looking and looking for something like this but it's always been treated as you mentioned in your video.
Nice to see a purely practice new product rather than a new gimmick as so many others bring to the market.
Top man
@noodlessandwich8773 ° Wouldn't it be better to add a few at a time ? Give the beneficial bacteria some time to be colonized
Yes, seeing what passes for sump foams was the main reason why I decided to have these foams specially made to my specifications and it was very important to ensure that they were not just repackages audio foams which I've seen used many times online.
I'm sure it is a mystery as to why the fish have all died when someone uses acoustic or furniture foams and I'm sure the fish shop will get the blame for 'dodgy fish', lol
I will never sell anything which is pointless and doesn't make a difference to a filter or tank as I have an active conscience which I regularly converse with and all I can do is endeavor to make the right decisions with 'monetary gain' being at the bottom of the list of what I want to achieve.
The ridiculous thing is that on the very day I rejected money everything changed in my favor but that is a (long) story for another day, probably on my Thousand Yard Stare channel - I've got a nation of video titles planned for that channel which are snippets of a life journey - most of them involve making life decisions since every time we arrive at a crossroads it's a test.
Unfortunately most people don't see the tests which we are all subjected to.
As an example, a couple of weeks ago I parked at a supermarket and found a clear bag with £150 cash in it.
99% of people would just keep the money but I always get whatever I find (which is a lot) back to the original owners if I can.
The clear bag had a sticker on the back with a plumbers phone number on it so I phoned the number and asked questions relating to his whereabouts over the last few days. I was a bit suspicious about his answers but to be fair to the guy he realized it wasn't his money, phoned his accountant and found out that the £300 he gave her in cash had been lost after she paid someone £150 and visited the supermarket so I gave her my address and she collected the cash later that day.
That's karma in the bank for me and her faith in humanity has been hopefully restored. It's good on all levels and that morning (before I found the money) I'd had unexpected bills which were more than I had in my current account so I really needed money (don't we all?).
There were 2 tests there. The first was as soon as I noticed the bag (and was gutted that someone had lost so much money with a plan formulating to get it back to whoever had lost it) and the second more important one was when I saw the plumbers number on the sticker which was on the back of the bag - it was like 'OK you passed the first test, what about this one?'
Anyway, that has nothing to do with aquarium foams, lol
Really good Richard the green mega foams surprised me how good it collects the muck in my bio force XL.juwel filter. I will film next time cleaning koi filters amazing. The thick course hardly even clogged didn't even need cleaning much.
That is great to hear since that was the intended result when I commissioned these foams to be made. It has always amazed me that most people use flat foams with minimal capacity for trapping dirt.
Dear Richard, being cheeky here, you reviewed an aquarium trickle filter (clear boxes above tank). I can't find that product from the links. From watching your videos for Decades I appreciate the importance of Air +Filter Media for The Oxidative part of N2 Cycle. I have your Biohome Ultra for hopefully Anaerobic side, to go in trickle filter. Also liked the Chinese price of £20.
The overhead filter is only £20? that seems like a very good price.
As long as you're using enough media and a conditioner which doesn't starve the bacteria of food by messing with the ammonia, nitrite and nitrate all will be good.
Tempting for all my Aquaclear filters!
They may be too thick for HOB filters as each foam is almost 2" thick - ideally you'd want to go for at least a coarse then medium pad - that would take up 4" of the available space with the new thick pads which is OK in a big canister filter or sump but eats into the available space for biological media in a HOB filter. I'd say go with the standard bumpy coarse and medium foams if the only filter you're running is a HOB.
Way to go Richard! I'll be getting some once my stash of foams has run out.
No worries and I'm glad they are of interest.
I got quite a few in with the first delivery but I sold the majority of them to a trout farm so I don't have many left. More on order but that could be 6 weeks away.
Currently I've only got about 20 of coarse and medium left. so when they're gone there will be a a few weeks until new stock arrives. The last ones took ages to arrive and it's from a UK company.
Great video once again 👏 keep up the good work 👍
No worries and I'm glad you found the video useful.
just ordered 2 sets of 3 looking forward to trying these 👌👌👍👍
If you ordered 2 sets this could have been the order where I ran out of stock and only sent 1 set, refunding for the other set.
I've got hundreds more thick foams on order with some arriving in 4-5 weeks and more arriving in 7-8 weeks. The lead time on them is ridiculous since they are specially made for me.
@@pondguru yes that was me 👌👌No worries, i will wait until you have more stock for the others. no problems Richard 👍👍
Hey up Richard very big fan, have purchased many time's from your self's I'm wanting the new MEGA foams in one of my spare backup filters the fx6 fluval to replace the pimp version setup with the blue and black foams.
Quick question before purchasing: Would you use the green foams from top to bottom like the demo you showed in this vidoe.
Thank you
Probably yes, I think the coarse foams are a bit too coarse to be the only foam around the FX trays. The medium (green) foams are a good PPI (around 30) so they will catch enough muck before the water heads down through the fine pad in the top tray and the media in the tray.
Great stuff Richard. Majorly bad spelling mistake at 3.02 if you haven't noticed and you care 😉
Bloody hell. It takes me ages to make a video and I still made an arse of it.
Oh well, it can stay there. One out of 1000+ videos is acceptable, lol
Ha ha !@@pondguru
I searched eBay for Meg foam aquarium filter media, and came up blank 🤷♂️
It no surprise nothing came up if that's what you searched for - that's why I always have links to the FilterPro website in the pinned comment and video description. Everything is more expensive on ebay but here is the link: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226013668903?itmmeta=01HSAYB3HQQBTWYEN487HGNQCV&hash=item349f76e627:g:KdcAAOSwA~xl1mGi
I have quite a lot of the products on ebay but there are a few that I don't list there.
So, say Im replacing the stock foams in a FX6 and want to use these instead. The old "pimp my filter" way was to merge a coarse and medium.....do I now just use a mega-coarse? haha
This is simply another option, cheaper than the official Fluval foams but feel free to mix the pads.
I'm definitely a fan of the coarse and medium pads being put together to grade out the muck but if I was pushed I'd probably say that the ideal set up would be to have the medium or cparse density 'mega' foams in the bottom tray outer area and have the upper tray(s) with the coarse and medium sandwich of normal foams.
It's something people can just experiment with and see what works best for them. Many people go with graded foams in the top tray and have no filter media in the top tray. For them having coarse foams all round the trays would probably be the best option but if you're going with my original recommended set up then it leaves more room for filter media.
That's exactly why I sell the foams separately now as it gives people the chance to experiment with various set ups and find what works best for their tank and stock scenario.
I think i will be getting some of these for my fx4, i got your thiner ones (coarse & medium) in there at the mo. Would you just use medium with the bigger foams in the fx4, ..👍
To be honest I'd still recommend using the dual coarse and medium foams for the FX4 since there are only 2 trays but if you upgraded to a FX6 the bottom tray could be coarse or medium followed by the top tray being the dual foams - giving people the choice to mix it up is why I listed everything separately on the website now.
There are so many stocking options for a tank I'd rather just leave it up to the fish keepers to work out the best mix of foams for their tank.
Since the thick foams have such a huge initial contact surface area area using that in the bottom tray will allow the heavy muck to be caught before it is swept up into the upper parts of the filter but the most effective set up of any FX4,5,6 filter will be dictated by the stock in the tank.
Every tank is different so there is no fixed answer to 'which foams should I use' unfortunately. It is a matter of experimentation so I just want to offer as many different options as possible to make that happen.
Any recommendations for a good filter for a turtle. Have a flat bed tartarium and running a Fluval U2 but gets clogged after a week?
A canister filter of some sort would be the way forward and the model / size would be based on the size of the tank.
YES PLEASE!!!!!
IDK Why the pond foams in the US are .75" thick. Not even 1". It's really, really thin and I wish they were 1.5-2" thickness. (Meaning that the part without bumps is min 1" thick or 1.5" thick)
The part without bumps is probably between 1/2" to 3/4" as I went for maximum profile to ensure that the cavities formed between foams when they are stacked would settle out the maximum amount of detritus.
The initial contact surface area is ridiculous on these foams compared to normal foams, lol
love the vids, what's the best way to pimp my Aqua One External Nautilus 600, only 2 trays, thanks
If it only has 2 trays and works bottom to top it would have the foams and fine pad in the bottom tray with the top tray being for media.
@@pondguru thank you
Hello I ordered the 2kg Fresh Water External Filter Upgrade Kit today 1.05.2024 would it come from the neck with the old ones or the new mass?
Thanks for the order - it is due to be collected by Parcelforce today (tracking to follow).
I'm not sure what you mean by "would it come from the neck with the old ones or the new mass?"
If you're asking about the foams then all the kits come with the normal deep profile foams, not the thick foams since the thick foams are too thick for most canister filter trays.
What foam do you recommend to use for the Aquael Hypermax Link ?
On the Hypermax 4500 video I did a while back I used the ordinary thickness foams and that was no problem for the filter tray height so I'd say just go with them. There are only a few canister filters which are big enough for the thick foams with the big 'bucket' type filters (with no trays) being a good example e.g. Eheim 1500XL.
Are the mega foam filter pads available in the U.S.?
(my other channel) I get these foams specially made for me so as far as I know nobody else sells anything like this.
I've sent plenty of these foams all over the world and international shipping is no problem - I have them on the FilterPro website http;//www.filterpro.co.uk
For some reason any foams which are bumpy seem to be almost impossible to get from US suppliers whereas in the UK that's what we've used for decades as foam for pond filters. It is very strange.
Hi,
Yoy always mentioned in your sorting trays in canister foam to be course then medium then fine ,
So what is Course ppm
Medium ppm
Fine ppm ?
Thanks
The actual PPI of foams is not important - as long as you go from the coarser grade to a medium grade to a finer grade it's all good. In the UK we generally don't use PPI ratings since there is no need.
However, for the benefit of people outside the UK the coarse would be between 10ppi - 15ppi, medium would be 30ppi-35ppi and the fine would simply be the white floss / fine particle matting / polishing pad. All of those foams / pads would be before the filter media to keep it clean and effective for many years.
@@pondguru thank you very much
No worries, any time.
Richard do you consider the mega foams too big for my fluvial 407
They are certainly too thick for the foam cartridges of the Fluval filters and since they have small trays I'd say go for the standard Fluval foam (or generic replacement) in the bottom tray capped with a fine pad. Then the trays above that can be filled with media.
Many thanks Richard
What is your opinion of the Oase 31000 pressure filter the outlet of which I run over a large tub of 25kg biohome media and another tub of 25 kg of white pumice which came from you . Using if to fi,ter a 5000 litre heavy stocked koi pond .thanks
That filter is an excellent first stage of filtration which should render the water clean before it hits the good amount of filter media you have in the tubs.
I'm assuming that the water tests are good?
@pondguru water test are pH 7 ammonia 0 kh is also 0 but am working on that . Biohome ultra is amazing media
@@robertcarter5491 Groovy - best of luck with the tank.
Might have to get me some of that Godzilla skin lol
That is an awesome name for the foams but maybe I should get some made in a pink colour since the new Godzilla has pink skin (probably to appease the LGPBTQ+2A crowd....or whatever they're calling themselves now, lol)
ZILLA foam was my first thought. Just makesure it is vegan friendly lol
@@ABSaquatics Whenever I hear the mental illness word 'vegan' I hear the screaming words of the headmaster from Pink Floyd's 'The Wall':
"IF YOU DON'T EAT YOUR MEAT YOU CAN'T HAVE ANY PUDDING!!!! .... HOW CAN YOU HAVE PUDDING WHEN YOU DON'T EAT YOUR MEAT!!!
Will these work in an FX6?
Yes - I have them on the FilterPro website cut to size for the FX6. I'd personally say go for the medium foam for the FX6 instead of the coarse but many people are going for the coarse around bottom tray followed by medium around the tray(s) above.
Unfortunately I'm sold out of the big foams at present but have more arriving early May with more following on in late May / early June.
Hi mate are u still on the same number need some advice on a garden water stream thanks
I have only ever had one phone number since I got a mobile phone, lol
Ship to United States?
I ship all over the world and you can check shipping costs by adding whatever you want to the basket, going to basket then hitting 'estimate shipping costs' with no obligation to continue to checkout - just remember to empty the basket if you decide not to buy and you'll avoid the email which gets sent after 48hrs with the 'you left something in your basket' message.
Hope that makes sense.
Dam, why did I buy new pond foams last month 😮😢
To be fair I've had these foams for a couple of months now but it takes me ages to get around to listing anything online.
I sold the majority of them to a trout farm so I don't have many left. More on order but that could be 6 weeks away.
Currently I've only got about 20 of coarse and medium left.
@@pondguru oh well, I know where to come when they need replacing
@@iangrice329 I'm going to chase them up next week since it's been a few weeks since I made the last order. Because they are a bespoke product they take an age to supply which is a real bummer.
take my money ......... i got 3 classic 1500 xl that need new foam ... website here i come lol
Yes, for a canister filter of that design these foams will be perfect. Thanks for watching and appreciating the video.
Any recommendations for a good filter for a turtle. Have a flat bed tartarium and running a Fluval U2 but gets clogged after a week?
This is exactly the same question as asked under another username - just answered it this morning.
Will these work in an FX6?
This is exactly the same question as asked under another username - just answered it this morning.