Natalie's Fishtank.

[NatalieFish]

Hello everyone, My name is Sienna, and my baby Natalie loves her fish-tank. My older brother (aquajoe) told me about this site and gave me information about my tank and such on how to maintain it. WELL.. when i went to... i promised the fish i would clean their tank today. The only pic of it in my only album so far.. I didn't get before pics, which i should have but i think for the sake of everyone's sanity here i'd best just explain how terrible it was. As i mentioned as a caption for the picture of my tank on there, i bought that tank off of the previous renters when we moved in.. I don't think they've ever cleaned it and apparently they've lived here for 3 years. IF that tank was not cleaned in 3 years, i believe it. what i don't believe is that ALL their fish are still alive. well they probably just got new ones after the others died and couldn't be bothered to clean the tank. when i dusted it off the first day we were cleaning there was a blanket of dust on it. disgusting. So today i went all out and took it all apart, cleaned it. The filter, i swear it was clogged with sludge. thankfully my brother (aquajoe ) gave me more information on how to clean this thing. but i sweat the tubes were clogged, the entire thing was just filled to the rim with sludge! So, i cleaned all that out with the brushes and everything, wiped everything down, cleaned the plants, ( with just plain water and set them to air dry ) the filtler (mechanical) as well and left to air dry.. the filters themselves.. i cleaned them but my brother advised me to clean them in the tank water but i remembered at the last minute as i put one under the tap!!! so they're air drying right now.im still iffy about them though! This is my first time EVER cleaning a tank and a HUGE one at that. ( It looks small in the pic ) but, so once all that was done i started the syphoning. i did it three times. Just because well, the rocks are blue and the very bottom was black (poop) and i went all through the rocks and everything. Of course i was very careful i wouldn't suck one of the fish up.. when i took the plants out, stuff went everywhere it was unbelievable.. i felt so bad for the fish i stuck in the a million times to try to get as much as i possibly could. after the stress of me invading their home and taking their plants and the syphoning i sprinkled some fish food in there. I filled ( but not quite ) the tank with water that i had sitting out for .. maybe 3 days.. so i thought it safe to through that in. well, carefully.. so ill update and display a new picture of it soon to show you all then ill be asking some questions!!!!!