Christmas Hypermax 4500 Give Away (ENDED) @pondguru

Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

This is a Christmas give away sponsored by Aquael and myself - you have the chance to win an Aquael Hypermax 4500 plus 10kg of Biohome Ultimate worth around £550.
All you have to do to enter is send a picture of your 300+ litre (80 US gallons) tank plus links to where you have shared at least one of the following videos:
From the PondGuru channel:
Hypermax 4500: youtu.be/so8b2xCmjX0
Looking Inside Filter Media: youtu.be/QTtAUYR67Eg
Aquarium Power Cut: youtu.be/UPcWR5YGn_Q
All Pond Solutions HOB-500: youtu.be/XKI1ZNQ4eME
Why Your Filter Is Too Small: youtu.be/L5FkSTYkEAE
Ultimate Invisible Filter: youtu.be/mmJmnf-4ukU
From the Thousand Yard Stare Channel:
Fairytale Porcini Hunt: youtu.be/DnlgZB8-IY0
Bushcraft Fishing Kits: youtu.be/WUo4K6_DxPI
Emergency Water Filters: youtu.be/wRhRX7wKDhM
Best Survival Rifle: youtu.be/FNqOdz-Suzo
*My email address is sales@filterpro.co.uk for entries and I can't reply to email entries due to time restraints*
Every confirmed share link of a different video (above) will count as one entry so you have a maximum of 10 entries to this competition but no entries will be considered without a picture of your 300+ litre (80 US gallons) tank with a visible 'thumbs up' in the picture.
I can't really make it fairer than that.
*My email address to send entries to is sales@filterpro.co.uk and I will stop taking entries at 11:59pm on 13th December so get going*.
Please bear in mind that I'm quite censored, especially on 'sponsored' forum sites and facebook pages so the amount of viable entries will be calculated at the time I click on the links you send at the time I click them - if they have been deleted by people acting as 'moderators' on certain sites they can't be counted if they are not viable links.
No links on YouTube videos are viable since YouTube is censoring like crazy..
Best of luck and I hope that someone makes good use of this awesome filter - bear in mind that the filter currently has an EU plug on it so you will need a (cheap) converter plug to make it work if you are in the UK and may need a step down transformer plug if you are in a country which uses 110V as opposed to 220V.
*I will stand the cost of shipping to the UK but will send it anywhere in the World at the cost to the winner - I'll let you know the cost of shipping based on which country you are in and if you think it is too costly I will pick another winner*
Groovy.

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Christmas Hypermax 4500 Give Away (ENDED)

$Pimp My Filter #22 - Eheim Pro 4 / Professional 4+ 600 Canister Filter It doesnt take a genius to work out that I am not impressed with this Eheim pro 4 filter but Ill list a few positives: 1 - The pro 4+ 600 holds approx. 3.6kg of media which makes it suitable for a normally stocked tank of around 350 litres or a heavily stocked tank of around 175 litres (when using biohome ultimate for a full cycle). Thats between 92 US gal. (normal stock) down to 46 US gal. (heavy stock) for you guys in the US. 2 - It comes with media, some is good (substrat pro). 3 - It looks nice......errrr...ummmm...hmmmm.....Im struggling after those first two points......nope, just thought of another one.... 4 - The sides of the filter are see through which allows you to see that the trays dont fit together properly....is that a positive? OK, now the negative attributes of this (very expensive) filter: 1 - The outer fittings / clasps are made from the cheapest most brittle plastic Ive seen on a canister filter 2 - The extender function relies entirely on the fine pad being the last stage of filtration therefore rendering the feature useless as water polishing should be done BEFORE it hits the biological media. Having a fine pad at the end of the process guarantees that fine dirt is concentrated in media trays and will reduce the efficiency of the system by encouraging premature clogging of the media and guaranteeing cleaning is a more messy process than it should be. 3 - The mech pro is similar to a small version of flocor which is often used in cheap pond filters to reduce weight and therefore reduce shipping costs. As a mechanical media, filling the first 2 trays with this is a total waste since medium and light weight dirt will easily go through it straight into the media trays, covering it in dirt and reducing efficiency. 4 - Trays are a design which is sure to lead to handles snapping off. They will still fit together without the handles but the plastic is so brittle that handle breakage is a real concern. Then there is the... 5 - Ridiculous design of the tube which is formed by the trays fitting together. Having three thin pieces of plastic forming a tube instead of one moulded piece of plastic (e.g. on pre-filter tray) ensures that the trays will not fit together properly when one part of the triangle gets bent out of shape and that will cause bypass on a grand scale. The problem could be avoided if the triangular piece of plastic was formed the same way as it is for the pre-filter tray. Pythagoras would be turning in his grave....... 6 - The trays dont even fit together properly when all parts are present and straight - they easily push inside each other. This is by far the worst example of tray construction Ive seen on a canister filter. 7 - The cost. In the UK this filter sells for well over £200 which puts it right at the top of the list of expensive filters but considering the many critical flaws of the pro 4+ 600 a £60 All Pond Solutions / $60 SunSun filter will hold more media (5kg / 11 lbs) and will actually function like a filter is supposed to do, unlike this travesty from Eheim. The main competitor to Eheim is Fluval and Fluval have maintained or improved the build quality of their filters with successive generations. However, Eheim seemed to hit a high point with the pro 2 series then reduced the quality for the pro 3 and reduced it again for the pro 4, all while increasing the selling cost of the new generation filters and claiming that the filter is more advanced - the only thing which is advancing is Eheims bank balance and that is down to mugging fish keepers who bought the pro 3 and pro 4 filters. Can they pull it back with their next filters? sure they could but so many other companies are making better filters at a fraction of the cost the market is wide open for someone to steal their crown - that is awful to see as I have great respect for German engineering / work ethic / construction quality / after sales care. Instead of being a next generation filter the pro 4 is a massive step back. Sorry - I havent got any room left for the usual notes about filtration so check other videos for that. http://www.filterpro.co.uk Professional 4+ 600 on Amazon: http://geni.us/sRBAk6D If youve enjoyed this video please check out the playlists on my channel for hundreds more.. Feel free to share or link any of my videos on facebook, twitter, forums etc. for the benefit of anyone you think may also enjoy watching. See you next time. Pondguru RECOMMENDED PRODUCTS ON AMAZON: https://goo.gl/jMaBWy INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/pondguru_outdoors/ FILMING EQUIPMENT: Panasonic HC-VX870 HD camcorder http://geni.us/3UwE +Rode stereo microphone: http://geni.us/4OL +Rode deadcat mic cover: http://geni.us/1pmn JVC Everio quad proof HD camcorder: http://geni.us/e09e +Rode deadcat mic cover (opened up and held between tripod and camera base) http://geni.us/dee24 Zomei Z666 tripod: http://geni.us/1a1af3 Manfrotto MTPIXI-B PIXI mini tripod: http://geni.us/87f7$

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