WHAT is in my new tank?

[kay56649]

I got this new tank and it seems like it was a saltwater tank, seeing it has some salt on the plastic plants and some decorations. It has a big rock background and looks very neat, but what do I do with the tank? I have freshwater fish to put in it, but how to I work the filter in it? It has a tube in the bottom that sucks in water and there is a mesh filter thing in the rock background but is in the middle of the tank and not on top. How does this work??

 

[kay56649]

This is the tank, the open spot in the rock, is where the mesh filter thing is and it sucks in debris from the bottom through a filter top and goes through a tube into the rock background

 

[kay56649]

PLEASE HELP!!!!! I want to use it but don't know how!!!

 

[Vienolac]

Just IMO.

Perhaps it requires a canister filter?
It's neat tho. Wish I had something like that

Maybe look up sand fall filter and see if anything similars hows up?

 

[Khij159753]

It looks like a terrarium that had a waterfall.

 

[kay56649]

It has a tank heater that came with it, but also has a sticky heating pad on the top/back of the aquarium! But I will look up that filter and see if that's what it is. I got it for free and didn't know what it was. Ha ha

 

[kay56649]

I looked up sandfall filter and it looks VERY similar to what I have. This aquarium also has some fine same behind the rock background but the regular aquarium rocks in the front. I'm guessing it very well could be that. I posted a picture of an opening in the rock, the filter cartridge just sits in there and that's where the water is sucked into through the bottom of the tank.

 

[Khij159753]

Yeah I'm 99% sure that's a terrarium that had a waterfall. My friend builds them. I'm sure if he built it the right way you could probably convert it into an aquarium Farley easily

 

[kay56649]

Could I just fill the whole tank with water and just turn it on? Would it work like a filter? It has a fish aquarium lid and light with it and a tank heater with aquarium plants and rocks.

 

[kay56649]

Please??? What can I do to make it an aquarium?

 

[Khij159753]

All that stuff is probably terrarium stuff. There is almost no difference. But it won't work as a filter

 

[kay56649]

Ok sounds good...thanks!!