Industry · OEM Supply
Aquarium filter components, made to your cartridge. We supply the media and the finished inserts that go inside aquarium filters — cut to your housing, not to a stock catalogue. Private label and custom packaging are routine.
- Cartridges
- built to your housing
- Media
- carbon and zeolite media · foam
- Also
- white filter wool · activated carbon paper
- Private label
- and custom packaging, routine
Made to your dimensions. Free sample, one time; shipping is not included.
What we manufacture
Filter cartridges
Finished inserts built to your housing — frame, media and assembly. This is the part most brands actually reorder every month.
Carbon media
Coconut-shell and coal-based, as loaded foam, pad, mesh or paper. Strong on organics, dissolved colour and general polishing.
Zeolite media
The polar adsorbent. Where ammonia and ammonium are the target, zeolite does what carbon does comparatively poorly.
White filter wool
Mechanical stage. Cut, rolled or assembled into the cartridge alongside the chemical media.
Foam
Open-cell sponge, plain or carbon-loaded, at the pore grade your flow rate needs.
Activated carbon paper
For industrial water duty, where a thin carbon-carrying sheet suits the housing better than granules.
Carbon and zeolite are not competing answers. Carbon handles organics; zeolite handles ammonia. A cartridge that has to do both is a construction question, not a media-selection question — which is the part we are useful for.
Two water duties, not one
Our water-side work splits into drinking water treatment and industrial water treatment, and aquarium sits alongside them rather than inside either. The materials overlap; the specifications and the documentation do not, so tell us which you are building for.
Materials we source rather than make
Some aquarium cartridges call for ion exchange resin, GFO (iron-based phosphate removal), phosphate removal media or copper removal media. These are available through our supply partners and we can build them into a multi-layer insert we produce — but we do not manufacture them ourselves, and we would rather tell you that up front than let you find out later.
Practically it means we publish no performance data for those four, and specification questions go to our technical team rather than being answered from a datasheet.
Who this page is for
Related: zeolite filter media · activated carbon filter media · pet care filter components · converting and die cutting.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers from the components on this page.
Do you make custom aquarium filter cartridges?
Yes. We build finished inserts to your housing: frame, media and assembly, made to your dimensions rather than a stock catalogue. Private label and custom packaging are routine.
Should an aquarium filter use activated carbon or zeolite?
They do different jobs. Carbon handles organics, dissolved colour and general polishing; zeolite handles ammonia and ammonium. A cartridge that has to do both is a construction question, and we can build both into one insert.
Can you supply phosphate removal media or ion exchange resin?
Through our supply partners, built into a multi-layer insert we produce. We do not manufacture ion exchange resin, GFO, phosphate removal or copper removal media ourselves, so we publish no performance data for them.
What should I send to start an aquarium cartridge project?
One sample insert tells us more than a specification: housing, media stack, dimensions and how it is sealed. We come back with matching prototypes. Free sample, one time; shipping is not included.
Send the cartridge, or the drawing
One sample insert tells us more than a specification does — housing, media stack, dimensions and how it is sealed. We come back with matching prototypes.
Prefer to send a photo? Message us on WhatsApp — a picture of the part is usually enough to start.
ISO 9001 · ISO 14001 · REACH · RoHS · TSCA · Prop 65 · TDS and SDS on request. See certifications and factory.