Pondguru Exclusive! - New Moving Bed Media

Name: Pondguru Exclusive! - New Moving Bed Media
Uploaded: 2026-11-08T17:52:05.781Z
Duration: 3 min 9 s
Channel: Pondguru

Pondguru

Nov 8, 2026

From the guy who started the aquarium moving bed filter movement.....
Short video of a brand new type of moving bed media. It is ceramic based and has a surface area many, many times larger than K1 or similar plastic media. I will be uploading videos of a new filter I am developing which will use this media.
Please share this video with anyone you know who may be interested in this awesome product.
Compared to K1 the media will likely be more expensive per litre, but you will need much less - therefore it will work out cheaper and could allow fluid bed filters to be much smaller than they currently are making them more suited to aquariums.
Once the new media becomes available for retail sale, I will add a link to my ebay shop in this description.
***UPDATE***
NOW SELLING FINISHED VERSION OF MEDIA - LINK HERE: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/tynevalleyaquatics/m.html?hash=item4ab5f656b7&item=320880400055&pt=UK_Pet_Supplies_Fish&_trksid=p4340.l2562

A couple of days ago I was given these little balls here, which are a new sort of moving bed media. Each ball is like a tiny little moon filled with craters. That one's even got a little smiley face on it. Hello. And they have a massive surface area. Actually the camera's just picked it up there. See all the little holes in it? Well that's porous in that water can get right through the structure. I've actually smashed one open here. Smashed it with a hammer. They are quite hard. I'll let you have a look. You can see all the tiny little grains inside there, and if you look at that under a microscope, it's like hundreds of thousands and possibly even millions on the bigger ones of tiny little snowballs all stuck together. So they have a massive, massive surface area. Compare that to K1, which is the most commonly used moving bed media. This is made of plastic, and you can see it hasn't really got much of a surface area on it. And although K1 does work very well in moving bed filters, this new media, with its massive surface area, should work a hell of a lot better. This is not actually on the market yet, it's still in development, but I've been entrusted with making small internal filters and actually testing the stuff for the company that manufactures it. So, over the next few days, I'll be showing you the new filter that I've got, designed specifically for this media. And it has the potential to be excellent. There has been a few tests done with this particular media. Really just basing it on this media versus K1. And it's found to set up with bacteria about twice as fast. I.e. it only takes half the time for bacteria to colonise this and produce a fully working filter. Than it would if you were using K1. Which is very good if you're setting tanks up. If you're interested in this media, unfortunately it's not for sale yet, it's still going through the testing, which luckily I'm being a part of, but I am expecting great things of it. If you keep an eye on my channel, I will be uploading videos of the new filter that I'm making, and I'll be doing updates of its development, and also giving some feedback on just how good, bad or indifferent this media is, but at the minute it looks very promising.