Check out my shorter and more sarcastic video here:
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Undergravel filters get a bad rap and I want to offer a defense of them to you all, the Youtube courtroom. If you all have any questions about undergravel filters feel free to ask them and I will answer them. I think under gravel filters are amazing, inexpensive, and efficient filters that can work in any tank and if you think they can't make sure to watch the whole video and let me know why what I said won't work.
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A breakdown of my arguments:
0:00 Explaining the Suit
1:06 Showing the different types of Undergravel Filters
2:22 How Undergravel Filters Work
3:40 The Biggest Complaints I Hear about Undergravel Filters
5:33 How Flow Impacts Undergravel Filters
6:11 The Importance of Maintaining All Filters
7:13 Undergravel filters are the Problem
7:29 How to Clean Undergravel Filters
8:49 Why you may not need to clean undergravel filters
10:29 Controversy of Undergravel Filters with a Planted Tank, Cichlid Tanks, and Dirty Water
10:58 Undergravel Filters have dirty water
11:46 The Issue of Undergravel Filters and Planted Tanks
12:50 You can't Keep Cichlids and Undergravel Filters
14:03 Plant Roots Don't Do well in Oxygenated Environment
15:33 Why are Undergravel Filters Good?!? (Can they be good?)
18:01 How Expensive are Undergravel Filters to Maintain and Fix
19:40 Why People Hate Undergravel Filters in the Industry
22:05 Undergravel Filters Better than Sponge Filters
22:36 Why Undergravel filters are GREAT!
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