Swimming pool with blue water surrounded by lounge chairs and umbrellas at a sunny resort with green trees and flowering bushes

FIBALON of Germany:

Powering Filter Minions to Greatness

Cute Filter Minion character is a work horse in your pool or spa. Filters water fast and finer, down to 8 microns. No more cloudy water
Cartoon of a happy yellow fuzzy duck character with multiple arms wearing red flippers, a snorkel, and goggles, standing in a blue pool. The character is holding sponges, brushes, and scrubbing pads, and making an OK sign with one hand.
Cartoon of a yellow booger with human-like arms, legs, and face, wearing red flippers and a diving mask with a snorkel, standing underwater in a blue background.

Filter Your Spa & Pool Faster,
Finer with Less Cleaning Later

A cartoon yellow sponge wearing a snorkel, mask, red flippers, and holding multiple scrub brushes and sponges, standing in a blue water background.
A cartoon yellow fluffy duck wearing red flippers, goggles, and a snorkel, standing in a blue water background. It has multiple arms holding various cleaning brushes and scrubbers, smiling and making an 'OK' gesture.

Call for More Information: 888 225-8336 & Buy Direct

Filter Minion Compatability

  • A balcony with a hot tub filled with water, and an empty lounge chair, overlooking a scenic view of trees and a river under a blue sky.

    Inflatable Hot Tubs

    Mini Filter Minion sets for smaller inflatable hot tubs.

  • An outdoor hot tub with steam rising, set on a wooden deck in a forested mountain area during sunset, with trees and distant mountain ranges visible in the background.

    Hard Shell Hot Tub

    Our filter minions work with cedar and fiberglass hot tubs with various canister style filters.

  • Swimming pool with steps and surrounding green bushes and plants.

    In-Ground Pools

    Our Filter Minions can easily replace sand filter, cartridges and DE filters.

  • A woman relaxing on a pink donut-shaped float inside a backyard above-ground swimming pool, with a pineapple-shaped float and a beach ball, surrounded by green grass.

    Above Ground Pools

    Filter Minion packs come in various sizes from small pop-up above ground pool to oversized permanent above ground pools.

Here’s the ‘Shallow Dive’ for Basic Info

Dive deeper

This website is primarily for those with Above Ground or InGround SAND FILTER TANKS

Call for questions regarding Cartridge Filter replacement: 888 225-8336 (pacific coast time)

Here’s the Thing…..

Fibalon technology is just like the iphone was to the flip phone

The Flip Phone made calls but was otherwise severely limited by today’s standards.

Sand & Cartridges are the Flip Phone. They filter water but have too many hassles or restrictions for most of us.

Fibalon is the iphone.

It filters better, finer, faster, utilizes silver ions to restrict biofilm growth, is lighter, less expensive, requires far less cleaning, lasts longer overall, easy to rinse off & reuse, and is recyclable too. Think of it as a 2-3 year cleaning plan…if not longer depending on use. And remember, its not new. Just newer to the US

A Little History on the Invention / Creation & Why

Fibalon of Germany invented the entire ‘fine-spun filter ball’ technology in 2012 and today is the foremost international source for hotel pools, olympic sports pools, and your above ground pool, inground pool…..and spas

A 30 year textile engineer was tasked with finding a way to filter municipal grey water at the same time Pepsico of India needed a better way to filter river water faster & finer, to eventually make soda after purification

With success in those, why not swimming pools? Slight modifications of the original fibers then spun into balls, proved to filter finer and faster than traditional sand & cartridge filter tanks

It’s not new. Over 1,000,000 sold worldwide and in Germany alone, 20,000 pools each year switch from sand or cartridges over to Fibalon. Now selling successfully in the US to consumers like you as well as professional pool maintenance teams

Close-up of ocean water with waves, labeled 'Saltwater' at the bottom. Fibalon Filter Minions even clean in salt water pools and spas
Industrial sewage and wastewater treatment plant with large processing tanks and infrastructure. Fibalon filter ball technology is used internationally in municipalities for treating waste water
Fibalon Filter Minions work in Above Ground Pools and In Ground pools worldwide. Comparison of two pools: on the left, an above-ground metal pool with a ladder, labeled 'METALLPOOL'; An an In Ground pool overlooking the world
One mesh Fibalon Filter Minion pouch holding 18 super fine fiber balls which trap more pool & spa crud than sand or cartridges can. The perfect above ground & in ground sand filter alternative. Less hassle and less cleaning. Find on Amazon

They Look Like This

One of 18 fiber balls from a mesh pouch, each ball trapping water crud to the core of the ball, not just the surface of sand or cartridges. Filters down to 8 microns. Find on Amazon and fibalonusa.com
One bag of Fibalon Filter Minion pouches equal 50 lbs of sand, and up to three large pool tank cartridges. Each bag has 8 mesh pouches attached end to end. Buy on fibalonusa.com by the bag

One Bag is 8 Pouches Attached End to End (called Bag of ROPE)

Easy Install - Easy Pull to Rinse

18 of those Balls in a Tough Mesh Pouch (you don’t handle gross balls)

Single Fiber Filter Ball

Six mesh bags filled with small yellow potatoes arranged in a circle on a wooden surface.

One Bag = 50 lbs of Sand. Easy to Install and Pull to Rinse Off

Here’s Why & How We Filter Better Than Sand or Cartridges

The problem has always been with sand or cartridges, in that they only filter one dimensionally, meaning only on their surface. Even a full sand tank just uses the top few inches to collect pool crud. A cartridge is a thin fabric and only collects on the surface of one side.

Fibalon balls allow water to flow through to the core, so pool crud is collected and trapped completely through each ball. This means far more collected crud over a far longer period of time, which means far longer between cleaning cycles. Depending on pool use, that might 1 year but can often be 2-3 years. Then rinse and reuse for years to come.

Pool crud only penetrates to upper layer which builds up pressure, leading to backwashing

Diagram of a septic tank showing water inflow, water outflow, water return, and a dirty sludge layer only 3-4 inches thick.
Pool filter cartridge being rinsed with water from a garden hose.

Cartridges are worse, getting that pool crud out is a mess

These balls were and are still bright yellow. The trap all pool crud to the very core, which is so much combined surface area in our pouches that sand & cartridges cannot compare. Silver Ions reduce bacteria growth too.

Fibalon balls allow pool crud deep to its core, but still easy to spray & rinse. Imagine 18 balls to a pouch, and 8 pouches of pool crud. That could take years to completely fill, depending on use

A close-up of a yellow cleaning sponge with a porous, net-like texture.

The Silver Ion Factor

Colorful abstract glowing light pattern resembling an atom with orbiting electrons.
Illustration of colorful cartoon germs behind a biofilm filter, with text stating 'Filters down to 8 microns and avoids the creation of biofilm build up'.

In an expensive and patented process, Fibalon fibers are charged with silver ions that do not dissipate over time. Those silver ions in the fine fibers in each ball, suspend and reduce the reproduction of many common microorganisms in pool water.

Although its a fact that silver and silver ions have a anitmicrobial effect on bacteria and various funji, Fibalon can not and does not claim that its silver ion charged fibers will eliminate bacteria in your pool or spa. But with that said, the fact remains that some microorganisms are eliminated because of the silver aspect, and reproduction of more in restricted.

Installation is Easy, and So Is Removing to Clean Later

Whether a tank is full of sand or Fibalon, the bottom laterals should be protected under a layer of gravel

Add the connected pouches of ROPE in a spiral, and keep layering in spirals as best you can

A water filtration system with a black and silver structure, showing water flowing through a tube into a container filled with gravel or small stones.
A person placing yellow netted balls into a gray, rotating seed sower machine on a concrete surface, with a blue background behind.
A cluster of garlic bulbs inside a mesh bag on a dark surface.

The idea is to prevent an easy visible path to the bottom gravel. Think like water. Pouches on each layer should cover any gap below (sort of like bricks on wall)

A person's hand dipping into a container full of yellow tennis balls inside a mesh bag, placed on a gray stand outdoors.

The goal is a depth of 16” - 20” of pouches. More is fine too. Even 24” won’t slow down the flow or increase pressure. You can also use the 50lb rule: 1 Bag = 50lbs of Sand

Forget Sand. Its cheap but that’s about it. Its heavy and is inefficient in that only the top few inches do that filtering.

How Much to Order ??

Seven burlap sacks stacked on top of each other with a red X across the image.

50 lbs of Sand = 1 Bag of Fibalon Rope. But Also Note That 16” - 18” depth of Rope is the Goal

Bag of premium pool filter sand, 50 pounds, with grain size .45/.55 mm, suitable for 12 cubic feet pools, high efficiency, clean, safe, natural, graded for pool filtration.
A plastic bag of Fibalon Poolfilter rope for swimming pools, featuring a picture of a pool with poolside chairs and a railing, and text highlighting features like easy handling and excellent filtration performance.

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A hand reaching into a large plastic mesh bag of yellow tennis balls placed inside a gray, round outdoor ball machine with a chimney on top. The machine is on a concrete surface with grass and a blue tarp in the background.

Working up to 18”

Knowing the diameter of your tank, one Rope spirals into a 24” circle, and each spiral is 6” tall. So three layered spirals give you 18” of dry depth.

Also, interestingly, in Europe its already illegal to backwash into your yard. Its considered toxic residential waste. More and more US areas are disallowing backwash into yards & sewer systems.

Fibalon Products Go Through Rigid European Testing at Independent Laboratories.

Collection of European certification documents for FIBALON, including certificates from Senetics, BioLabs, and other institutions, with details on approval and analysis for water analysis, certification standard, and testing methods.
Laboratory test report sheet showing the analysis of heat water after applying the Fibalon filter, including sample conditions, testing method, and results, with red circles highlighting the number of grown bacteria colonies in two samples.

This stating ‘no new bacteria colonies growing within the ball fibers’ due to presence of Silver Ions

How to Buy Filter Minions by Fibalon

See Menu & Order Now in upper right corner of website to buy bags of Fibalon Filter Minions on fibalonusa.com Click on Products. Select Yellow Product. Fill in your information. The website is Shopify, the most trusted transaction platform on the web along with Amazon & Costco

Here’s the Deeper Dive for More Information Than Some Might Need

Deeper Dive Under Construction. The Shallow Dive gets the point across but there’s more science to add later.

For now, find more info & product validation if you need it, go to the German website www.fibalon.com

It just works. It has no choice but to work. Water passing through each filter ball traps far more pool crud than sand or cartridges. Plus, the spun fibers are charged with Silver Ions which hold & restrict growth of algae and bacteria. Google ‘silver & microorganisms’