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    The qube

    Just been doing my usual browse on ponds and koi and i noticed something which is a few years old now the qube filter..
    What does anybody know about them and have people or do people use them..



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    Hello mate - found an old archived thread about them here:

    https://www.koiforum.uk/archive/index.php/t-9317.html

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    Found a website for them, too (below)... but I can't seem to find much about how they're actually supposed to work...(?)

    Gravity Fed Qubes | Product Categories | Koi Qube

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    You can still buy them, saw one on eBay a couple of years ago, made £20 iirc.

    Bio-Qube Bio-Qube 400 Gravity Fed | Shirley Aquatics

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    theres 2 on ebay somewhere a 800 and 400 iirc,damn expensive for a square pressure filter think one was £400 and that was the small one,andi

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    I saw those, they normally only reach about half what the seller is asking


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    TBH there is virtually bugger all about these filters anywhere just a brief description by sellers...
    On one link says its a sealed unit and works better than a sand filter and another says that an aditional air line can be fitted inside.....
    How can that be if its a sealed unit.

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    Elite Filtration Systems

    Just for you Ant The qube


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    Quote Originally Posted by bigcarpchaser View Post
    Elite Filtration Systems

    Just for you Ant The qube


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    Been on that site and its lacking proper info.

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    i heard it was a sealed unit aswel,but then it has a uv built in and one for sale i read they said they had stripped it down and cleaned all media,confused,andi

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    What are you trying to fathom out mate? Why they don't sell any?
    It does make me laugh when all these dealers install the latest and greatest filters on their ponds then a year later, it's something else.
    Look through the old Coastal Koi pond build stuff to see how it has evolved over the years. It wasn't long ago that they had a couple of Roto Showers on there and were banging that drum (no pun intended) pretty loudly until the drum/shower thing took off. (Roto/Koi Logic...one and the same?? No agenda there then)
    You'll note that the customer testimonials are 5 years old and pretty sure that Oaks Farm are now in bed with Draco

    Anyway, aren't they just like a smaller "sealed" nexus with inbuilt UV but more complicated to clean out or a bigger bead filter perhaps

    The water passes through the pretty magic green plastic things then the magic process makes the water magically lovely, what else do you need to know, apart from they're miles better than anything else that carries a similar volume of water and twice the price of a Nexus?

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    Its a kind of magic......

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    Never really took off did the qube. Way over priced for a square bead filter that uses plastic media similar to k1 stuff. As has been said also trying to find any info on them is like blood from a stone. I asked a similar question to this a few years ago i think?


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    Tutti(??) was a big advocate of these if I recall and was a good contributor until he spat his dummy out.


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    A few years back I found a 400 in someone's front garden, they had used it for a year and got rid if it, I took the orbs out and mixed them in my easy pod and nexus, they work ok with a drum at the front, without a drum they do collect waste, a lot of waste,are they any good? I know a lot of people who had them and don't now and others have a drum in front of them and have kept theirs,

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    I’ve had an 11,000 gallon pond with two 600 and one 400 BioQube installed. I’ve since moved house and had to down size to a 5,000 gallon pond, which still has around 60 large koi in. Which I now run with a Oase Drum and a BioQube 600. In the past I’ve used other filters, including Erics, Nexus etc and yes they are cheaper but the Bio Qube is so much easier to install, smaller footprint and really easy to clean and you don’t get soaked and covered in crap. The water quality and clarity is brilliant.
    So don’t knock what you don’t know about...... I wouldn’t use anything else xx

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    Why have you got a drum in front?

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    In this pond I have the drum in front to do the Mechancial part of cleaning the pond, mainly because I’ve got to many fish in the pond, some 35 years old, and not much space and needed everything to fit into a 8x5 garden shed. I also needed a system that requires very little maintenance and can virtually look after itself, I probably do a clean once a month.

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    these filters are sxxt without a drum, why would tony yellens business got through liquidation 3 times? if your happy that's fine,

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    The qube

    I have to admit moza i initially thought from your first post “why put a drum in front then”? It makes sense now youve described it but a drum infront of any bio filter makes them a million times better The qube
    like you say you needed space and a maintenance free system etc.. I have a QK22 drum feeding into an 8ft old bay (well its actually 7ft 3/4 but near enough, its tight mind but fits just) with various medias all in a 8x6 shed and its bloody brilliant, the amount of media/bio surface area i have compared to other filters is probably huge, purely due to the size of the thing and the area i can fill The qube
    what im getting at is any bio filter with a drum before it will be the bees knees The qube


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