Babalushka
Aquarium Advice Newbie
- Joined
- Jul 20, 2008
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Hiya guys, this is my first post on AA. Anyway, I used to love aquariums when I was smaller, my father used to have a gigantic 100 gallon tank with a little itty bitty goldfish and algae eater we won at the fair along with a bunch of others. Grew up to be huge suckers. Well, a few months ago I decided to pick up my own little tank. Hex 5 with a bio-wheel filter. Nice looking tank, but I'm not sure if the bio-wheel really filtered the water good at all. I got it home, got it all set up, all cycled, and I picked up a three fish, two mollies and a little algae eater. Got them in, and two days later, my water turns incredibly dirty and cloudy. I pick up some stuff from Petsmart that is supposed to remedy it, one little drop per gallon of water. Two days later, almost every fish in there is dead, except the eater. Three days after that, he's floating bottom up. So I get rid of them, wash and sanitize the tank, and start over. Re-cycled the tank, etc, and since I really liked the mollies, I got three of them, maybe I was adding too many fish at once, I'm not sure, but they lasted about three days before they all ended up dead. I felt so terrible, one of them was really cute and friendly, in a fishy type of way, he'd rub up against my finger when I was changing the water and taking samples. I was thinking about getting another tank, a little bigger probably at 20 gallons or so, with a traditional filter. Does anyone have much experience with bio-wheel filters? It just didn't seem to do the job, not to me anyway.