How To Set Up Under Gravel Filter

This video is about the process when I set up under gravel filter for my 48 gallons tank. This tank will be the home for my mogurnda gudgeon.

[@iamnotsovereign8790]

Nice setup. You can convert your undergravel filter to an anoxic filter by regulating the water flow. Very slow moving water in and out of the substrate will create the low oxygen environment needed for denitrifying bacteria to grow on the bottom of your tank. My 40gallon goldfish tank has the same undergravel filter plate that you used. I regulate the water flow by decreasing airflow from the uplift tube. Finally, after 6 months my nitrate is going down from 40ppm/week to 10ppm/week.

[@DEXTER-TV-series]

Tell it to Novak: he will glad to hear it. 💚

[@MasAruna]

Pengalamanku makai undergravel filter (baru 3 hari ini) sangatlah direkomendasikan, baru 30 menit langsung air kristal

[@juliorivera870]

I made my own undergravel filter and also added air hose tide to the PVC pipes to have undergravel air bubbles, both together, with a hangover filter.

[@Sinserg]

That was a pretty cool build, I will try the UGF myself early this year but I will also be using plants and nutrient rich soil, but to prevent the substrate from reaching the bottom I am planning to use filter floss and then everything else above.

[@monlegaspi]

Is it really ok to use the filter floss as 1st layer before the sand/substrate? Coz im planning to do the same

[@Sinserg]

@@monlegaspi To be honest I am not completely sure since I have never done it before, but I think it might work, I am planning on setting up a slow moving plenum using an UGF so as long as the water continues leaking slowly from the top to the bottom it should be alright.

[@paulharris6977]

@@Sinserg I am a complete novice but I believe the problem you will eventually run into is that the filter floss will be completely clogged, essentially stopping all water flow through it. Maybe it can work with a very slow moving plenum?

[@Sinserg]

@@paulharris6977 That's exactly what I am doing, my tank has been running for almost 2 months and so far I am very satisfied. 😌

[@christophermorreall3454]

Thank you so much for making this video I alway wanted to make a under gravel filter to clean the tank but wasn't sure how to get it set up.

[@rockfella27]

You can use some mesh to prevent any gravel from seeping down under the ugf. Check out Dr. Kevin Novak's videos on how one can use this old tech to have excellent biological filtration not mechanical. The lift tube ideally should be the same height of the substrate and use a very low power air pump. Powerhead will be very strong. Idea is to move water very slowly underneath the ugf. Good video anyway.

[@AlexK-ew1mo]

I do like this kind of filter for a plenum. But it doesn't seem to be available in the US.

[@rockfella27]

@@AlexK-ew1mo Look for under gravel filter plates. It is available.

[@memeguyTM]

Great points. Yes water flow should be very slow

[@shannonrhoads7099]

I am using a similar undergravel filter, though my 10 gallon tower itank only needed two plates! I'm running one lift tube and a box filter for mechanical and chemical filter off one air pump. I hid the lift tube with Anubias, and the box filter with driftwood like you hid your powerhead.

[@vinceolshove1499]

Nice setup, but I much prefer the Lee's Premium under gravel filter. Much more stout and effective. Costs a little more up front, but worth the extra cost and literally lasts forever.

[@marcs3982]

I just installed a Lee's in a 65 gallon for fresh water 18x24 inches with two power heads. I was amazed after one week how fast the aquarium was cycling.

[@sofiarizwan7433]

Haha 😄 liked how u made your video fun as well as the set up. My my that water was running slow 👀 !! Nice one

[@callmelansz8306]

Kalo ane cuma pake hang on filter aja, udh nyaman bgt ikannya. dibawah cukup kasih bakteria, tapi prosesnya lama, cuma hasil memuaskan cuma bersih2 hang on aja

[@rasyiqulabid836]

Kalau saya pengalaman pakai UGF itu. Pakai biofoam yg 5mm, trus kasih Pumice, bakteri starter, baru substrat, pakai Powerhead 1200 di tank 100x50x40, Baru 1 jam aja udah bening, UGF nya bertahan selama 13bulan,

[@aji7108]

@Desta Febriyanto UGF (UnderGravel Filter)

[@krbangbungters4950]

Jangan simpan busa atau dakron di UGF , karena suatu saat akan mampet dan harus dibongkar karena lihat saja di dusnya saja gak nyuruh pakai dakron atau busa ,cukup soil atau pasir malang saja (di ugf yang saya beli ya). Jika ingin lebih bening lagi alirkan ke filter lain seperti canister atau top filter .

[@alannugraha9289]

Yah ugf gw pake dacron

[@krbangbungters4950]

@@alannugraha9289 biarin aja sampai mampet hehe 😂 kalau power headnya aliranya uda berkurang, dan air mulai keruh baru buka dakronya rescape ulang ,dan jangan pakai lagi cukup pasmal/soil dipertebal lalu kasih bakteri starter 😂

[@myzen3913]

@@krbangbungters4950 ga pake rumah bakteri om?

[@krbangbungters4950]

@@myzen3913 pasir malang sebenarnya udah bisa jadi rumah bakteri gan, akuarium outdoor gua pakai itu aja, tapi kalau pengen lebih maksimal seperti yang saya bilang di komen saya diatas bisa abang alirkan ke top filter atau canister , rumah bakterinya di filter tersebut. Saya juga melakukan itu di akuarium indoor saya, akuarium indoor saya pernah 3 bulan gak kuras karena lagi males masih bening. 😂

[@myzen3913]

@@krbangbungters4950 ooh,tq infonya om...

[@gabitentertainment1742]

Sblm gravel d alasin kapas putih dlu om....biar hasil lbh maksimal dan gravel/pasir nya ga kesedot masuk bkin mampet ph ntar.

[@AlexK-ew1mo]

The pee comment had me laughing on the inside. Thanks for that.

[@fernanditoarfianly9731]

Makasi bang,rencana aku juga mo beli undergravel

[@ahmadsulaeman557]

Bang mau tanya itu kan bawah nya di pasang UGF pompa nya, nah tapi lobang yg depan nya itu nnti nya bakal di kemanain mas? Apa pake selang diarahkan ke top filter atau dibiarin aja nyemprot?

[@CoretanIjo]

Itukan pakai nozzle duck bill, di arahin ke atas 30-45 derajat.

[@ahmadsulaeman557]

@@CoretanIjo kalo saya tank 40x25x25 pake PH 1200 kekencengan ga nnti walau pake duckbill

[@riza2602]

@@CoretanIjo belinya di mana om

[@a4fishsingapore305]

Well made video.

[@paterahitam]

Kebetulan banget, mau bikin aquascape pake combo filter undergravel dan power head yg disembunyikan di top box filter.

[@OaklynMediaLLC]

3:53 What kind of fish is this? It looks like a small mouth bass but its dorsal fins are definitely not small mouth bass

[@CoretanIjo]

That's Mogurnda mogurnda. Very beautiful fresh water fish.

[@OaklynMediaLLC]

@@CoretanIjo I totally agree!

[@rickyabdullah4758]

Nice undergravel filter

[@ryanaldino5257]

PH nya kenapa ga dipakein selang airator bang yang nyedot udara dari luar dimasukin kedalem ? soale aku baru banget mau rombak, pasang UGF tapi pake PH hhee

[@CoretanIjo]

Saya kurang suka lihat gelembung di aquarium tapi engga ada salahnya pakai.

[@ryanaldino5257]

@@CoretanIjo oalah, ditunggu updatean tank ini bang 😁

[@nordsea3947]

Pengalaman saya posisi, kalau PH rada dalam, gelembung udara ndak mau keluar. Akhirnya hanya arus saja. Kalau aquascape sepertinya kurang bagus kalau ada arus di tengah akuarium, bisa kemana2 tanaman dan substrate-nya 😀

[@gabrielalanis4897]

Does sand like cichlid mix substrate work with any undergravel filter tray?

[@CoretanIjo]

I don't know

[@lokivsfortune]

Amazing 🤩

[@TheWalk23]

Where did you find the air lift tubes ? I am setting up something very similar. I think the plastic undergravel material is similar to yours.

[@CoretanIjo]

The tubes are part of the undergravel. They are all sold as one set.

[@dollanbae]

sippppp bisa di coba....

[@bhimaaryudha7784]

lebih baik sebelum masukin gravel dikasih kapas putih/busa penyaring dulu, jadi sistem filtrasi internal bisa lebih maksimal. lebih bagus lagi jika output pompa masuk ke top filter, air bisa bening sebulan lebih jika sekedar diisi ikan kecil2

[@CoretanIjo]

Video ini kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHzKdGl7p9uboqc sudah mendemonstrasikan bahwa tanpa filtrasi mekanis (kapas, busa dan sebagainya, air tetep jernih). Bukan cuma sebulan, justru semakin lama, semakin bening. Kalau tetep mau pakai kapas atau media apapun di bawah gravel, silahkan cuma dari awal tidak menambah manfaat apapun. Tanpa itu juga tetep jernih.

[@alexandereyn]

@@CoretanIjo yang di maksud bukan di bawah ugf, tp lapisin di atas mesh ugf sblm pasmal bro

[@CoretanIjo]

@@alexandereyn sama saja.

[@muhammadyuswarachmadi]

@@CoretanIjo kita sealiran, UGF klasik gak pakai spon/dakron 🙌🏽

[@nicaphagist]

Dari pengalaman banyak yg sudah pake dakron atau busa lainnya kebanyakan kasus aliran ugf jadi mampet karena kotoran yg menumpuk di dakron dan harus bongkar total... Beda dgn instalasi ugf tanpa busa, langsung ditimpa substrat pasir malang atau silika yang berukuran kasar, akan lebih baik lagi jika dikasih rumah bakteri atau pumice yg berukuran besar2 sebelum substrat, alhasil gak perlu kepikiran busa kotor dan bongkar total ganti busa lagi...

[@sakuragi3065]

sir do you need to clean undergravel filter? if so how do you do it? cause I imagine it to be really hard

[@CoretanIjo]

Not regularly, but when you notice the water quality declining, it might be some of the gravel already full of debris just like any other filter media that clog (very rare in low stocking tank). If that happen, stir the gravel and suck the debris that float. The plate never need cleaning. There can be some debris under the plate, but they rarely cause any trouble.

[@-bonfishjj-6481]

Hi. Wouldn't the bottom filter be clogged only water out from 1 location? As far as i know, people having 60cm long tank having problem already. I am just curious as i was considering 60cm tank using bottom filter with 2outlets (i am yet to start setting up the tank though)

[@CoretanIjo]

If you use airlift, yes, we need 1 output for every 30 Cm. For powerhead, no, just 1 output is enough.

[@-bonfishjj-6481]

@@CoretanIjo Oh very clear answer. Thanks I was considering to semi connect external filter to 1 of bottom filter's outlet n another using air pump. Would be sufficient n should have no clogging problem?

[@aqemmahmad7913]

qom.ga di cuci pasir bali nya bang..? jdi keruh dan kuning ya bang

[@معاذ-الزواهرة]

How is the faeces cleaned from the bottom?

[@CoretanIjo]

In my opinion, cleaning fish faeces is just waste of time. It only has like 20% of total nitrogen from fish food. Most of the ammonia is produced by fish from their gills, not from those faeces. With low stocking level in home aquarium, it's not required at all to keep our tank healthy. Those faeces will disintegrate, they won't stay forever and clog our filter. There will be brown mulm that accumulate, but those mulm aren't fish faeces. They are different thing. Those mulm can clog the filter if we are overfeeding with low protein fish food. If you are so strict with tank cleanliness, just use gravel with color that can hide them.

[@hasbythalib]

mau nanya bro, klo kita isi debit air setengah dri yg bro isi bisa apa tidak, jika bisa mau jg saya aplikasiin buat kura kura biar lebih keren 👌 terimaksih ilmu sama inspirasi nya bro

[@CoretanIjo]

Bisa, kalau set up pakai powerhead begini, asal powerheadnya tenggelam, bisa.

[@hasbythalib]

@@CoretanIjo oke bro makasih yaaa, nnti di coba 👌

[@myzen3913]

Suhu mau tanya,tank nano 40x20x20 Lph yang cocok brp ya? Takut kekencengan...

[@CoretanIjo]

Pakai pompa filter internal sakkai pro yg 300 L/H.

[@myzen3913]

@@CoretanIjo makasih dah jawab :)

[@irfanrafsanjanii]

mas mau nanya konektor input ph ke pipa bening dapet darimana?

[@CoretanIjo]

Kalau ini dapet dari filternya sudah sepaket tapi di toko ikan biasanya jual terpisah.

[@sdqsdq6274]

you will still need to clean the substrate , after a year or two , below is actually full of fish waste

[@CoretanIjo]

Fish waste is organic matters and organic matters will decompose. There are more process involved, but if you do everything right, no fish waste will be accumulated.

[@Lightmelife]

mantap

[@sedina6998]

Ngakak sama subtitlenya . 🤣🤣🤣

[@mrz3122]

Btw itu ikan apa bang ?

[@CoretanIjo]

Mogurnda. Sayang ini ikan cantik habitatnya papua tapi justru nyari di Indonesia susah.

[@daryuniklaten4528]

Kang itu pake powerhead merk apa ya, mohon dijawab dan congor bebeknya beli dimana

[@CoretanIjo]

congor bebek dapet sepaket sama UGF. Yamano.

[@daryuniklaten4528]

Berarti merk powerheadnya yamano kang? Ukuran berapa ya

[@CoretanIjo]

Yg paling kecil.

[@dwirama5071]

request diy sifon elektrik om plissss🙏😢

[@sugengsugeng7447]

Mohon maaf mau tanya pasirnya pake jenis apa?

[@CoretanIjo]

Biasa ga dijual jenisnya. Cuma dijual pasir aja.

[@sugengsugeng7447]

@@CoretanIjo oh iya maklum LowBudget Anda

[@paterahitam]

Itu namanya konektor apa ya yg di antara power head dengan pipanya?

[@CoretanIjo]

Dah dapet dari UGFnya.

[@georgehall5764]

pakai sistem ugf seperti piara bom waktu , awalnya ok tapi satu waktu akan jenuh dan terjadi amonia bloom.

[@CoretanIjo]

That's why we shouldn't use media under it. If it clog, we can simply stir the gravel and siphon the debris.

[@Supahri]

Akan ok kalau dibiarin aja ga disentuh atauoun dibersihin sama sekali.

[@hamtarooproject9386]

luar biasa

[@kisnawitonoseto993]

ada yang pernah pake ugf + filter samping

[@nikolausjanuardi7003]

Dah lama bgt ga buat video aquascape lgi

[@CoretanIjo]

Lagi benah2 fish room jadi tank lama dibongkar semua. Aslinya cuma mau dipindah tapi malah keguncang dan berantakan, jadi direstart aja sekalian.

[@nikolausjanuardi7003]

@@CoretanIjo ditunggu om konten aquascape low tech nya.. semangat 👍🏻

[@masnyarosa]

Btw merk sama tipe filter hang on nya apa bang

[@CoretanIjo]

Jebo 508

[@senopati5144]

Bang, kenapa ga pake kapas bang??

[@CoretanIjo]

Gini dah bening dan ga ribet.

[@senopati5144]

@@CoretanIjo oalah, saya kira kalo pake undergravel tuh harus pake kapas, terimakasih ilmu barunya bang 🙏🏾

[@febiansyahanwar2225]

mas ko video lama nya banyak yg hilang yah.?

[@CoretanIjo]

Beberapa video memang diprivat karena banyak alasan.

[@hotpant]

Kalo undergravel terbalik gmn om??

[@CoretanIjo]

belum pernah nyoba.

[@hotpant]

Sepertiny menarik dan patut dicoba om

[@CoretanIjo]

@@hotpant Slot tank sudah full sayangnya. Ini aja mau bikin video lagi bingung mau ditaruh mana.

[@MasAruna]

terbalik dalam artian gimana mas?

[@iyusherdiansah990]

​​@@MasAruna saya sudah menggunakan sistem ini, jadi output dari canister dimasukan ke ugf, sehingga air yg ke tank melewati substrat dahulu. untuk hasilnya sama-sama jernih dengan sistem ugf yg biasa.. kelebihannya kotoran yg menumpuk di substrat jadi sedikit, dan kemungkinan mampet jadi kecil. kekurangannya harus pakai powerhead lain kalau mau ada arus

[@AdamAdam-vk6vs]

bersihin nya berapa kali bg sebulan ?

[@CoretanIjo]

Bersihin apa? Kalau ganti air, sebulan sekali (kalau inget).

[@varigata9537]

Haduh hrusnya sbelum di letakan pasir,di cuci dlu pasirnya bang,,,w bgitu, W j nyuci pasir silica air kotoranya putihnya dah kya cat tembok,

[@CoretanIjo]

Kalau kotoran ga masalah, pake UGF cepet beningnya. Cuma ini gravelnya bisa ngeluarin tanin 😅

[@RahmatHidayat-ij7ep]

Congor bebek wkwkw