I really appreciate how thorough you are when you're going through this. A brand-new aquarist could watch these videos and have a pretty solid idea not only how to do things, but why they're set up that way and how they're supposed to work. I think there's a lot of other tutorial channels(for any kind of DIY) could really benefit from your approach to thoroughly explaining the what, why, and how. There is one minor note I'd like to make, although I realize it's probably too late, and you've either already done it or don't have the opportunity to do it. On your filter end, I'd cut two little half-inch by half-inch notches in the aquarium side panel so that the cords for the heater and the return pump can drop into them, leaving the top of the tank with a perfectly flush, flat look. It's just one of those little things that tends to bug me; looking at a beautiful all-in-one tank with a bunch of cords clearly hanging out one end. Call it a personal quirk. Also, an overflow to work with the drip system that we all know you're going to put in this tank would be a worthwhile addition.

Last month, I adapted this method of filter construction for a two tank, over-under system (crayfish above/planted aquarium with snails below) (30 gal total) for my son's 8th birthday. He always wants to bring the lobsters from the grocery store home as pets. He told me the crayfish and tanks were the best birthday present ever. I also used information from your tutorials on building and resealing aquariums, DIY filter media and adhesives. I just want to thank you for putting this information out there and empowering us to build to try stuff out and push the limits of our hobby. One dad to another: Thank you!

Love you inventions bro! I'm a 15 year carpenter that loves building and loves fishkeeping! So I can truly appreciate and understand all the hard work your doing in these next level projects! Keep it up! I hope you are doing well for yourself with your work!

this is exactly what I wanted to find. both the tank measures and internal filter. thank you so much for this little build series. you did a great job at showing everithing and explain. much appreciated.

It feels so weird coming back to these older videos and seeing Joey all skinny and homely looking compared to the jacked Joey rocking Gucci shoes that we know and love today.

@sangsanga7403

4 жыл бұрын

Its not weird i'm watching this in 2020

@MateyGardelOriental

3 жыл бұрын

@@sangsanga7403 2021

Dude I cant keep waiting a week for this. you got me interested now.

I love DIY filtration! Great build and the window tinting really gives a professional look.

This has inspired me! Planning my first tank build and never even considered building a filter like this, but now i have ideas!!

Awesome! Can't wait for part 3 :-D Always love watching you build these tanks, Joey, as well as all of your tips. In college right now, so it's difficult at best to do things like this myself, but I've created a private playlist for a lot of your tips and things so that when I'm ready to go full-scale aquaculture DIY-style, I can and I'll be prepared. Thank you so much for taking the time to consistently upload videos!

love the step by step all in one I really like this type aquarium.

Awesome! I really like how you explain everything you're doing... making it easy to follow and not make it seem like rocket science. good job Joey!

@thekingofdiy

7 жыл бұрын

+CichlidGuy915 thanks! My goal is to always explain it as simply as I can. Those that can not explain something easy enough for anyone to understand, probably didn't understand it well enough themselves in the first place.

this was awesome. good job Joey!

I CAN'T WAIT for the rest of this series!!! Also, where's the planted tank?! I'm dying here Joey!

Thank you so much for this video. I’ve been looking into these types of filters because you get to hide aquarium equipment.

your videos are getting better and better can't wait to see this built all done.

that looks amazing. very good job

I like that this is your idea of a "relatively small" tank... lol bigger than anything I could ever dream of!

Man... This is brilliant! Loved it.

Great video. I've used this design on many builds although i always have a little lip where the water enters the over flow so it doesn't just run down the corner.

Love the build Joey. Guess I'm going to have to start saving up money again for a sheet of acrylic More importantly thinking up a reason to give my wife why i need another tank in the basement. lol

wow this build is going to be exciting!! eagerly waiting to see that compact filtration system up and running!

@thekingofdiy

7 жыл бұрын

+Agent 48 works really well! Had to make a slight modification once running but that will be covered in the upcoming videos.

Amazingly good.. Thanks Joey for making this superb video.. I am surely going to try this way of sump..

so happy to see this in my feed today!!!!

Haha i get so happy when i wake up and see a new upload by you, inspired me to make my own build!

Another great video. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing, love that

Yay a love when u do tank builds

What a great build, I am going to use this someday.

This was a sweet little build Joey, I'm going to be adding a mini sump to a 15 gallon aquarium I have it's drilled and I got a small submersible pump that's rated at 6x the volume of the tank, so I'm going to try a something and hopefully filter and add volume to my 2ft aquarium.

I love this compact sump!

Very nice!

Great video man

Fantastic video !! great filter!!

It's very useful thank you so much Sir

Awesome !

pretty awesome!!!

very good thank you

GOOD JOB! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Very nice and simple filter. I'm about to make my sump for my reef tank and I will use acrylic to make the separations inside the glass sump similar like you did for your filter. Let's see how it works.

still one of my favourite series

My absolute favorite thing to do while watching your videos is watching the Asian arowana teleport during the jump cut edits.... priceless...

damn...you are really good, bro...love ur videos so much!!! keep it up 😁👌

Just an awesome video

I really like the idea of having the filtration on display.

This is a really awesome filter. I kind of want to hide my filter too, at least so I don't need to constantly see it from the front. Would be great if could somehow incorporate a sculpted background in front of the filter too, to make things even more aesthetically pleasing!! Now I just have a HOB filter on my 10G and 2 filters on my 20G. Your vid makes me want to go full-out DIY everything from scratch on my next tank. The lazy in me wants to put off that future tank for as long as possible though.

Come to Denver Colorado! I love your videos! Keep up the good work :)

ready to see this run

Very cool set up. Look into a box joint jig. Youll end up with much nicer looking fingers and you could get crafty and make a cool design

awesome!

I'm not sure I can wait until next sunday. This is way to cool.

@thekingofdiy

7 жыл бұрын

+Tjita1 the full build turned out awesome! Worth the wait!

@Tjita1

7 жыл бұрын

It looks awesome already!

Great,you're the best.

I love these long 'scaper' tanks. I know it'd be a massive give away but are you going with plants in this one? If so lighting will be interesting! Will you just put a wave maker down at the other end for circulation? Awesome as usual!

I have a ten gallon tank that I did this too and ran it with a protein skimmer when I had saltwater fish and it was my healthiest tank I had. Now I’m using it for a planted freshwater tank and a cheap pump instead of the protein skimmer but with it packed full of hydroponic red lava rock. It’s a super easy tank to take care of either way.

Very smart Joey!

very nice vídeos joey...i learn every day something new

Thank you king

this really is an awesome build, I want a tank this size. question: if you were buying acrylic specifically for this build what thickness would you use? thank you.

really nice build Joey

@thekingofdiy

7 жыл бұрын

+Dwain Kitchel thank you

@lnkrishnan

7 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video Joey. I realized something - 90% of the things you use and can get in the US, we don't get here in India. Either that, we have to pay a very hefty price for all of that. Simple things like elbows for the pvc pipes - nope - not available - not like the 90 degree ones you have. Acrylic sheets - nope. Egg-crates - nope. Eff-me-sideways.. felt demoralizing when I went back to India to see if I could set up a divider in my existing tank to house another betta. Irritating. :(

@dwainkitchel1316

7 жыл бұрын

sounds like an opportunity :)

this guy knows his stuff

Small fish that will breed. Hmmm I'm guessing some sort of Shell Dweller Tanganyika Biotope. If so, I can't wait to see the aquascape and fish. :D

@Zoe-vz8jl

7 жыл бұрын

live bearas such as Guppies Mollies Bubble Mollies Platies Endelers

@emenefiu4156

7 жыл бұрын

animal addict that would be awful IMO. He already has the meh Goldfish

@bradsimpson8724

7 жыл бұрын

If it were me, I'd toss a couple pairs of Apistogramma cacatuoides or agassizii in there, with some rummy nose tetras and a couple of corydoras, and then plant it up and toss in some spider wood.

Perfect on the pop in text n measurements and arrows

Its so weird that youtube unsubscribed me from your channel Love this filter video

Joey does the filter need to be water-tight? What if it were a snug fit with tiny pieces of acrylic preventing it from moving in the aquarium (but can slide in and out). I don't want to use any silicone or something too visible to attach it.

thank you!!

Loving these videos... What MM acrylic are you using? im looking at doing one with a filter sock, skimmer, heater. maybe some live rock inbetween somewhere

Question: the tank being so long, would you need the the water outlet to be further out or a stronger output pump to get a better water circulation?

I just love the line "6 inches long, 6 inches wide ... 7 litres"

Hey Joey, how are you bro? Tell me, do you have a video showing how to build a overflow box? Thanks a lot man. You're doing a great job! See ya!

I need some help, I have a 40 gal tank, and I`m planning to use a water pump for my filtration system. What would be the appropriate Liter/hour to use? is it okay to use 2200L/H?

Hi I'm planning to build a 60g Cube but I wanna do it rimless so did you think 1/2 thick is good for this build? Or it will bow ?

Hi Joey nice build! Can you explain a little about why you built the first chamber (first seperating acrylic piece) to the same height as the whole tank? If the sponge clogs there's a chance of overflow(cuz the only outlet of the first chamber is on bottom which is below the sponge).

Your vids are the best!! Just curious- why did you make slits for the intake vs holes like you did last time? I think you also did a filter build where you had just a large sponge filter instead of the acrylic. Is there a benefit to using one over the other?

Awesome configuration! What do you think about the same filtration system in the other side too? I mean, two filters due to the tank length? Our do you prefer your wave maker? My tank will be 52in long. Thank so much

I could see you one day going ahead and making an aquarium house, with all of the walls, floors and ceilings filled with various aquariums. It would be really cool. I absolutely love those aquariums you have and how you have them in that room behind you. If I ever win the lottery, you could make a lot of money off me building an aquarium/terrarium/cat play room for me. I know "sea monkeys" used to come with those mini aquariums with the bubble magnifying glasses in certain areas so you could see them better, but what I wanted to ask is do they make aquariums larger than those if someone wanted a larger brine shrimp aquarium? Or do they make acrylic that is magnified? Or is there a way to mold acrylic to make it into a single large magnifying glass for the front of a small-ish aquarium? I would love to build an aquarium with part of it magnified and have some brine shrimp as pets again. I loved my "sea monkey" family when I had one when I was a kid. A schoolmate came home with me one day and picked them up and dumped them on the floor. I was on the floor trying to save "Grandpa," my favorite and oldest "sea monkey." I think I killed him because I panicked while I was trying to get him back into the water. Between those and my xenopus frog and my hermit crabs and my gerbil and my terrarium, I had a table full of amazing fun creatures and plants. Plus, I had the "sea monkey" racing track too, lol. I want to recreate that. I don't still have that table, but I'm planning on making another one. I just want to have a slightly larger "sea monkey" aquarium that is magnified more than just in certain areas.

With a ~6 sqft surface area, does evaporation ever become a problem? If enough water left the tank the overflow could stop working and the pump would run dry. Or do you just do water changes often enough that that's never an issue? How high do you keep the water level relative to the top/bottom of the overflow slits?

would it be beneficial to run that output pipe to the other end of the aquarium. Seems like it wouldn't get turned over much unless you had something pushing it down to the filtered end.

AWESOME video first time I hear about build in filter thats great ... now, did you say 45 gallons? that looks bigger than my 75 gallons

Great video. Did not see the filter wall half an inch below the tank height as in your previous video on internal sump. Any particular reason

Hey Joey 👋 am new to the hobby about a year now and have 3 tanks. Since I started my hobby i been watching your videos and I have to say am a fan and thank you for all those helpful videos. Am trying to move from sponge filters to a sump on my 55g tank of cichlids Would a 5 or 10 gallon tank be ideal to make it into a sump for the 55?I need help I don't want to fail Hope to hear from you soon

I like this type of filter. What about if I have a glass aquarium and want to build an all in one filtration out of acrylic. Is it a bad idea to silicone acrylic material to glass?

Hi Joey, I have a tank and filter built off of this design. I'm not keeping shell dwellers, though; I've got danios for now. Every now and then a fish will get sucked against the surface skimmer intake. Any advice?

Question.... What ever happened to Subsand Filters? When I was into freshwater tanks 50 yrs ago, the Subsand Filters were the hottest thing going. It had some problems with rotten debris collecting underneath it. But some were working on reversing the flow through the risers so it would flow up through the sand to eliminate the dirt under the filter and kept it suspended so the box filter could pick it up. I thought it was a good idea and wonder why it isn't used that much anymore. If you had a large filter system under the tank, the return line could go to the risers of a Subsand filter. There was a problem with that as well, too much water pressure under the filter would blow the sand up off the bottom. So regulate the right flow to avoid that and the excess go to create a current in the tank, like a powerhead would. I have always thought that if you could keep the sand or gravel clean, you wouldn't have to do as many water changes. I mean lakes and ponds around here don't get water changes, other than rain and they stay healthy. So enough of the right filters should eliminate water changes or put them to a minimal.

You should build me one. :) I really like this tank so far.

video resolution is superb.

Joey I'm trying to build the same kind of filter but couldn't get the lighting diffuser here...could you help me with the link for the product...thanks

nice looking set up, though if it was mine i would extend the outflow pipe to the far end to avoid getting a dead spot at the far end of the tank

Hey dude! your videos are VERY interesting for me, I'm not an english speaking (native) person, and I'm having difficults to understand when you said "midia, media, ?) I'm not sure but I think you are talking about the piece of plastic you are setting down in the first chamber, if you can share a list of the basic items needed to build this sump, that will be awesome!

WOW nice Goldfisch

im probably not the first to suggest it, but a media basket would work great and be easy clean up. works perfectly in my biocube.

@BrettAnderson3

7 жыл бұрын

Mike Larisey Joey plans for the common man/woman and most people have those rimmed tanks and a media basket wouldn't be as easy.

I really love this kinda set up its a space saver but sir, how about the bottom waste since theres no hole? Right now I'm restoring my old 100gal tank and I'm reducing it to 75gal

can you do a DIY stream tank? i love stream tanks but i can't find a lot of information about them.

nice

Can you do a video about fixing leaks in acrylic tanks? If it's even possible.

with what do you glue the acrylic tank together and is the air pumo waterpreoof?

what type of acrylic did you use for the tank? thank toy

Hey Joey, have you considered adding more biological filtration to the pump compartment? you could add another spacer so the media sits above the pump, allowing you to increase your bio filtration by 1/3.

@thekingofdiy

7 жыл бұрын

+matthew johnson I could if I needed to, but there does come a point when your just wasting money. I already have way more bio than I need for the stocking.

@tzenophile

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for a wonderfully instructive and useful video! Question: would adding a kaldness/fluidized bed section add anything to the biological efficiency? Nitrates is always the challenge, but I guess one needs sintered media for that. It's really strange that this solution is not more popular, given that it is safer, cheaper, more quiet, and uses less power.

@matthewjohnson8554

7 жыл бұрын

Thats fair enough, I guess you can always add it after if you ever increased the bio-load

@matthewjohnson8554

7 жыл бұрын

Have you considered adding aquatic plants to your tank? I have a turtle and 100 small feeder fish in a 4x2x2, my nitrates always read 0.

I am making a 4 feet long 2 feet wide, 2.5 feet height aquarium, what filter is the best for my tank.

I’m not sure if he mentioned it in the video, but you need to make sure that your output is higher than your input so that water can’t flow back into the pump compartment before being filtered.

Hi, I'm from India and had been following your channel for last few months. I am a rookie and just started with the hobby. I made the internal filter using the design suggested and it's working quite well, thank you so much for sharing the idea. Is there a way i can connect with you directly for other questions which you may be able to guide or respond based on your availability.