Why would you soak the old one in bleach before reusing it in your aquarium? Chlorine.

You know what would really change the game for that tank, at least if you got the room under or behind it? A sump setup. Lots of the people with the best quality are running sumps, because you can get multiples types of filtration running at once. Imagine bio balls, activated charcoal, purigen, all running at once. Tank gonna be off the hook for real!

Purigen should be the last thing water touches before it enters the aquarium

Yep bottom tray if you have an fx6 or 4

Yes I remember it that way as well.

Noted ty for that advice

IDK...Your water looked amazing to me B4 you added the Purigen

I concur. And I like tannins too..😊

I live in aus we have crystal clear rivers so having crystal clear aquariums is more natural but we also have great tannin rivers/swamps as well :D

@@slanze1986 yes, I guess it depends on geography and all sorts of other variables. Must be incredible to see these fish wild and in clear water!

@@JTCT371 it is amazing I am very lucky to live rurally and have access to so many rivers and creeks as the wet season finishes and the rivers calm down that’s the best time otherwise they do become more tannin colour as the dry season progresses and the waters become lower, however in the rainforest regions they stay crystal clear. Just google crystal clear rivers qld

Its possible to have dark water that is also clear. That's how they are in the wild too. Purigen not necessary for clear water.

Maybe. And that's a big maybe. You need really thick glass to notice the difference

I disagree with this. The typical format would be like course, then medium pad/sponge etc, bio media, then your purgens etc and your finest pad or floss (order on final stage isn't the most critical as bulk of crap you want to filter has already been removed). If you put a polishing pad on the bottom, you are going to clog it up and restrict your flow much sooner in the chain, leading to more frequent cleaning. Nothing special about Oase canisters that would make them different than any other as the principles are the same.

@@jpcreativeimagery Correct.

How do you regenerate your purigen? Does your purigen smell after regenerating? I used bleach and water mix to regenerate and it would not stop smelling like ammonium and other waste products. Even after multiple regenerating baths..

Just buy another one

​@@WHTFSayonara 1:1 chlorine and water. I leave mine in for 48 hours (I have another on standby). Sometimes I'll leave it in the chlorine water for a week cuz I forgot. Then bath it in prime water mix for 4-8 hours (again you can leave it in this until your ready to use it) rince it and boom no smell😌

What is prime?​@@saqlainmoheimcampbell6244

Yeah lets just keep buying news ones infinitely for something that you can regen.@@jev8196

What would you say are the top 3 demands from customers ??

@@henrikmadsen2176 I mean number one is a bottle of liquid that you can buy that you just dump in the tank instead of doing water changes or doing any physical work to clean the tank ever lol. Jkjk But really number one is probably clear water, people who want aquarium maintenance work done probably know next to nothing about aquariums, so to them clear water is healthy water, they don't really understand the concept of "water parameters" because they're invisible. Physical detritus or algae in the water they can see, and it looks ugly so it must be bad! Number two is probably big fish. Everyone wants fish that are far too large for their aquarium. They're not interested in most nano fish or even most common community fish unless they're super colorful and striking like neon tetras or dwarf flame gouramis. Sub note to that is just colorful fish in general, a super bright peacock or mbuna is always going to be more interesting to a layman than say, a super rare and cool fish to us nerds. And third is probably an instant cycle. I get a lot of people coming in to the store trying to buy a fish and tank the same day, and they do not have a fish-in cycling plan, they have just never even considered the concept of cycling, they never considered that you don't buy the pet and the enclosure at the same time. Which to be fair, you often do with other pets like say you go to Petco and buy a lizard in sure they'll set you up with a tank and heat lamp and whatnot. Cycling eludes a lot of people, even people who have had a few aquariums often just fully misunderstand or don't care about the actual nuances of cycling. They just want to put fish in their tank as fast as possible, ideally today.

Definitely not for animals that love the tannins like snails, bettas, etc..

@@fishfishfish9837 yeah here's the trick, besides Bettas and neons there's not really a lot of popular black water fish that don't do just as fine in normal aquarium conditions.

When someone invents Liquid Purigen they will make a fortune.

Same here bro

I knew as soon as he asked people who used to ask me questions.

Same

Exactly

Very frustrating! If he'd just told us the damn product (purigen) early on instead of the stupid dance around, done a few before and after shots, explained how it worked etc etc I would have stuck around. But at 2.18min I've tapped out and he STILL hasn't named the product. Got the answer from the comments and I'm leaving lol

I don’t soak mine, just rinse in tap water then put it in the filter, works well.

yeah I basically rinsed it in the aquarium FML, eventually cleared up after 2 days@@Sea-cucumber1151

I foolishly didn’t rinse mine well enough and put it back in my saltwater tank . Killed all of my fish and 95% of my corals . Over a thousand dollars worth !

I do the same thing I have a 450l tank with 2 litres of puritan in my canister and when I clean it it goes into bleach for 24 hrs then prime for 24 hours

Wow thats very sad this is why i wont use the bleaching method. Worth buying the bulk jar fill media bags up ​@lakedog3616

@@lakedog3616 OUCH !!! That would hurt. {understatement} Sympathy.

Sorry if I’ve just asked a dumb question but what is Prime??

Biological filtration won't remove tannins though...or discoloration from metals or other chemical sources. It will just keep the bacteria count in the water column in check.

I used poly fill for yrs I buy the the polishing pad now and cut to fit mu hob. And rinse every other week and put back. Lil more money but I think it's better just my opinion

@@debnazario7226 Very curious: Whats is this Poly Fil? and Polishing Pad? And whare is it bought?

@@henrikmadsen2176 I think they mean poly-wool, better known as pillow or quilt batting (stuffing). It's what I use, I just get a big roll for 20 bucks from Walmart. Where I come from PolyFill is drywall mud :) available in powder or premixed form, it's as old as the hills. Pillow stuffing probably works better but then what do I know :) I don't rinse it, I chuck it and cut some more, it's easy enough with a 20 foot roll and it's half the price of Big Al's stuff. I rinse my sponge in the water I drain from the tank so I don't really lose a lot of bacteria, and I drain the filter of yucky water, usually leaving the bio balls alone. For bio balls I use plastic dish scrubbers, from the Dollar Store. I also build my own stands and sumps, but I'm not using a sump on any tanks rn :) I do big water changes with a pump every week, because some of my guys want super clean water, nitrates under 10 ppm. I don't hear the fish complaining so I guess it's OK :)

Totally agree 💪🫡

@@AQUAPROS great video btw, love the subtle humor about the pre filter sponges 🤣 also you probably control you experiments better than some of the other people making the claims. Your resistance to cleaning the filter is something I couldn’t do lol. +Respect!

@@robertjohnston25 🤪😎😎😎

It's a water polisher and does not remove beneficial things from your tank. It is truly amazing stuff. My parameters STAY perfect and I use purigen religiously.

I use lemon and water mix and I spray it on the rag, and then clean the glass, then dry it off.

hahahah I feel ya :) thanks!

cheers dude!

Careful. I think you reached your “Seachem” limit in one post. You might conjure something or open a portal. 😉

Yeah, well Prime is a magic product.

Nice!!!

Cheers! Hahah

Lol yeah he does!!

😎😎

🫡🫡

Muazzam berrak oluyor dostum ben kullanıyorum 😊

Always go up on the oase (lower flow rate than other brands) you can totally get purigen in one, lots of media baskets 🫡

I always recommend the thermo versions, that way you can get the heater out of the tank 💪💪

Imo that's how the fish live the longest. This hobby isn't conducive to my lifestyle, in which i tend to move every 2 or 3 years and owning fish and relocating regularly doesn't mix. At least I'm good at my tamogatchi forever lols and the digital pets don't die anymore lols 😁🤣

@ality yeah at that point you might just want to go with terrariums, a 30 gallon terrarium with a small group of dart frogs and some mourning geckos is far more movable and just as pretty. I mean you can even use a lot of aquarium plants in a dart frog vivarium since most aquarium plants actually grow better on land and dart frogs need 80-100% humidity anyways. Also dont worry dart frogs are only toxic because they eat toxic bugs, captive born ones are harmless and live on a diet of flightless fruit flies. the other choice is just pet bugs, a tarantula can live in a Tupperware. My uncle has a 24 year old rose hair that spent 18 months in storage once, it didnt eat during that time. It was also winter in Montana, many tarantulas are very hardy considering one spent 18 months in storage, that is over a year with no food and while it was not doing very well it made a recovery and is still alive.

Beard algae! Enough to put right off the entire hobby.

Yup, i commented the same thing. It takes alot of variables out of what your looking at