YES, now you can say NO!

No to cloudy water!
No to green algae invasions!
No to endless gravel vacuum!
No to disheartening fish mortality!

Get an AquaGenie filter and
say good-bye to these problems forever!

Frequently asked questions about the AquaGenie reverse flush filters.

If you have a question for which the answer is not included here below, please do not hesitate to send in your request and if suitable we will even add it to this list.

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• How does it work?

The underlying principle of this filter is the removal of the waste through flushing. The dirt is separated from the water by drastically slowing down the speed it travels through the filter substrate while it is in the filter body. The water-flow speed is controlled by the filter’s unique shape and inner structure. The slow-down causes the dirt to settle in the spaces between the Biopearls substrate by the combined action of gravity and friction and sink to the bottom of the filter while the clean water moves on to be pushed out of the filter again. Once a week or more depending on individual circumstances, the aquarium owner attaches the siphon to the filter and siphons the collected debris out.

• What is unique about the AquaGenie and different from other aquarium filters.

The AquaGenie filter is the first and only aquarium filter in the world able to remove the fish-waste and other debris from the filter. All other aquarium filters on the market until now do not remove the waste. Instead they collect the waste in the filter substrate and then use naturally occurring bacteria to decompose this waste. This process is continuous until it reaches a limit after which the filter has to be cleaned and this can be time consuming, difficult and messy.
The originality of the AquaGenie filter is it’s ability to remove the fish-waste before this waste has to be decomposed, taking away the need to clean the filter itself at a later stage.

• How long does it take to clean this new aquarium filter?

The whole procedure from attaching the siphon till topping up the water takes a minute or two, the actual flush takes only 2-5 seconds with very little water for most debris to be removed.

• Should I still use gravel in my tank or not?

The choice is yours and it does not make a difference for the filter. The purpose of any filter is to take out the debris from the water of the tank, so in a “sandy bottom” tank these debris will have no other place to go but inside the filter, later to be flushed out by you once a week. You should use a coarse size river-sand (similar in size to raw sugar), or the traditional aragonite sand for marine aquariums..

Gravel is a 100 year old practice left over from the use of the “under-gravel filter” which is the grand-daddy of all aquarium filters. Using gravel should have been abandoned by the aquarium Industry long time ago, because with coarse gravel most of the debris will get stuck in the gravel instead of going into the filter (any filter for that matter). So for your and your live-stock’s sake, please use coarse sand so that the debris can not get stuck in the sand and can only go into the filter.

In Nature, river beds and sea bottoms are always covered in sand or mud, never with gravel and once you use an Aqua Genie with a sandy bottom you will not have to use a gravel-vacuum ever again.

Very important test if you are still using gravel: to see how much dirt is inside your gravel, scoop out one cup of gravel and pour this into a clear container or white bucket. Then add 2 cups of clean water, mix the lot by hand and put it trough a strainer. You will get the surprise of your life and won’t believe how much “gunk” comes out of that gravel. Now multiply this by the number of cups of gravel that are in your tank and you can understand why your fish may not be too happy about their living standards!!! Using sand and an AquaGenie filter will solve this problem for ever

• Can I change the gravel and the filter at the same time?

This is not a good idea because this could cancel out all biological filtration activity.
It is much better to change one at a time, probably the filter first and wait 5 weeks till the biological part has been activated before changing from gravel to sand. Also, please remember to keep all other rocks plants etc wet during the change over as these will have heaps of beneficial bacteria on their surfaces which are also part of the biological filter.

• Most aquarium filters have 3 stages: mechanical, biological and chemical ! Where does the AquaGenie fit in?

Obviously any aquarium filter you buy is at least mechanical, the same goes with the Aqua Genie. Most hobbyists know that all filters also become “biological” filters after 5 weeks, because special bacteria starts to live on the filter substrate and help to break down the waste. Chemical filters have extra elements such as activated charcoal or resins to help remove dissolved organic waste and other noxious chemicals produced by the bio-filter.
Because the flushing of the AquaGenie filter will in most cases not happen every day, we have now included an activated carbon cartridge for the Chemical filter stage and the reverse flush system the filter is based on, creates a completely new 4th stage of waste removal.

• Can this filter be used for any kind of fish?

Yes, it works as well for goldfish, any kind of tropical fish big or small and also for marine or reef fish. Please remember the more fish you have in a tank the more often you should flush your filter.

• Can this filter be used in any size aquarium?

Yes of course, but the bigger the tank and the more fish you want to keep you may have to use more than one filter per tank.

• Will I still need to do water changes?

This depends very much on the amount of fish you keep, the amount of food you give and how often you flush your filter. It would be wise to keep monitoring your water conditions (pH, nitrates, phosphates etc) for a while until you know how your new filter is affecting these water conditions in your particular situation

At last, keeping fish will be easy and enjoyable!.