what's up guys last week we upgraded our tank this week we're upgrading our
filter with this bad boy the flugel FX 6 we're going to talk about the proper way
of setting it up to get it the most efficient as possible and I'm gonna fill
it up with a bunch of bio home ultimate ready let's go
hey guys welcome back to Kaveman aquatics
I'm Kev today we're talking about that fx6 canister filter media setup but
before we do if you haven't already please hit the subscribe button and bell
icon and make sure you don't miss any new content so the first thing we need
to be aware of especially if you're upgraded from say a four oh six or four
oh seven is the direction of water in your canister in the four oh seven water
would travel down the sides through your sponges and then up through your trays
and the FX six is very different and very important to know the FX 6 waters
gonna travel down your inlet tube all the way to the bottom of your canister
then all your water is going to travel up the sides through all your core
sponges once it reaches the top it's gonna overflow into your middle baskets
your first middle basket should have very fine polishing pad on it then as it
travels down through the middle it'll hit every tray that carries your bio
media finally it'll reach the bottom of your canister again where it gets forced
back out into your tank if you did upgrade your filter let me know down in
the comments what kind of experience you have with this upgrade I'd like to know
so the first thing we're going to set up is all the sponges around each tray they
already come installed in their FX 6 but you want to make sure that there aren't
any gaps in water's gonna find the path of least resistance and bypass your
sponge all together leaving it unmechanical a filter you don't want
that so before you want let's make sure all these sponges are in the right place
now that we got that done we're gonna start filling the trays inside but
before we do is important to know the order of filtration no matter what kind
of filter you how to be the canister hang on back or you're gonna sump
the water filtration never changes it's always mechanical then biological and
finally chemical this is important to grow beneficial bacteria efficiently and
the nitrogen cycle depends on it if you need more information on the nitrogen
cycle check that video out so keeping that in mind and understanding that
water is entering your trace from the top down we're gonna start filling up
the bottom tray first understanding that the bottom tray is gonna be the last
thing your water hits this is a tray that you should have your chemical
filtration in now in my opinion chemical filtration is not necessary in an
aquarium but it can be beneficial activated carbon can help in clearing up
your water and remove medications from protect pure gene is also a great form
of chemical filtration it will remove dissolved particles and that tank smell
both work as advertised but again it's up to your personal preference if you
want to use chemical filtration it is not absolutely necessary it's totally up
to you now in my case I use cami Peru this stuff is activated carbon mixed
with some pure gin and whatever else is good stuff but this will definitely put
your water clarity over the top it's just my honest opinion this stuff works
another thing I use in this bottom tray is my bag of crushed coral I keep
African cichlids which require a higher pH than most tropical fish since the pH
of my top board is about 7.0 this crushed coral in my canister it helps us
to buffer my water and increase my pH this is gonna go in my bottom tray along
with my cami pure blue and that'll do it for the bottom tray so I know guys if
you don't keep African cichlids and don't have to worry about buffering your
water and you can do one or two things with this bottom tray you can either
fill it completely with bio media and scratch the chemical filtration or you
can do both bio and chemical the choice is up to you
now I'm gonna take it over to the sink and give it a quick rinse just in case
so I've got my bag of crushed coral at the bottom of my last tray my bottom
tray and then I throw in one bag of the Kenney pure blue as you can see this is
the activated carbon part and here's the peerage in part this is going to
complete our bottom tray now we're going to move on to the next tray up this tree
is going to consist of your bio media I went ahead and got some bio home
ultimate and I'm gonna fill this entire fx6 with this stuff hopefully the
results come out great make sure it's nice and flush packed in we'll go over
to the sink and give it a quick rinse
know what I rinsed out that last batch and nothing came out of he's gonna fill
this tray up set it right into the effects
so your top tree is going to consist of one filter floss pad in this red tree
and another filter floss pad below it now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get
rid of this this pad and fill this tray with bio media the more bio home
ultimate we have in this canister the better is going to be
now that we got this top tree about halfway full with the bio home ultimate
the very last thing you need is the top filter floors pad that goes right on top
of your top tray and it completes that trade
there we go all set up ready to go just get it back in the canister
you wanna tighten these just snug not too tight Gasca is gonna do most of the
work for you so here's a quick look at the FXX installed beside no it does get
a heavy once filled with water you want to make sure that it's placed in the
position that you want it before filling it with tank water as it will get heavy
and be more difficult to move as you can see I still have my flooville 407 also
installed just for the purposes of the bacteria that's in it the media inside
the fluo 407 is already seated with bacteria and I don't want to remove it
right away and disrupt the nitrogen cycle in my tank so I'll leave both
canisters on for a couple of weeks until the FX six bio media gets seated with
bacteria as well here's a look at the hoses installed including the hoses for
the 407 if you notice how my hoses are set up they're set up to provide the
most efficient surface agitation I've got my wave maker on the left side
pointing up pushing the water towards the right then the fluo 407 output is
also facing towards the right and then FX 6 output is also facing to the right
as all the water gets pushed to the right on the top of the tank it then
gets pushed towards the bottom and this wave maker pushes the water back across
the bottom of the tank towards the left this creates a circulation of water kind
of like a turbine in the tank keeping constant water motion to prevent the try
this from building up in any one area of the tank now you have a guys FX 6 all
set up and ready to go hopefully you found this information helpful if so
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