I just got back from the closest GOOD lfs (30 minutes away) with a couple of ghost shrimp and a snail. I did a partial water change, cleaned out the filter, then added the fish. When I reassembled the filter and plugged it in, I noticed it wasn't working. THe filter is a penn-plax cascade 80, a hang on back filter. I got it with a 10 gallon kit, so I was planning on upgrading the filter with my birthday money (March 11, I'll be 20) from relatives. However, I guess I'll have to do that sooner than expected, unless someone knows something about these filters... It's not sucking the air up. There are bubbles IN the filter, so it's stirring the water around, just not sucking it up. I'm lost for what to do... I'm supposed to leave tomorrow night to go home for spring break (a week long), and so I guess that means I have to go to the LFS tomorrow, again, to get a new filter because I don't want to leave my fish in a 10 gallon without a filter for a week. They had the penguin biowheel 100 filter on sale for 24.99, is that a good price? Any help would be greatly appreciated...
This is the filter:
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This is the filter:
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