Twoapennything
Aquarium Advice Freak
My large tank, the 40 gallon one, has burned out three filters in less than a month! I have a Marineland Eclipse 3 aquarium with built in filtration. Well, the impeller burned out (I've only had this tank for about 5 months) so I had to rush to Petsmart and get a hood and a new filter. I got an Aqua Clear filter, installed it, got it up and running . . . about a week goes by and I'm puzzled because the tank is cloudy and it smells weird. Turns out the filter had stopped working - it was completely empty of water and I lost my biofilter from the original Eclipse filter that I was using to seed the tank. So, I go out to Petsmart again and this time I buy a Marineland biowheel filter - this was just on Monday - and it's already making grinding noises, the kind of noises the impeller makes when it's about to totally break down.
WTH?!?! Why am I burning through filters so quickly? It's obviously something in my tank, as it's happening with different brands of filters. Could it be the sand substrate? I cannot afford to buy a filter every week, no way. Has this ever happened to anyone else?
WTH?!?! Why am I burning through filters so quickly? It's obviously something in my tank, as it's happening with different brands of filters. Could it be the sand substrate? I cannot afford to buy a filter every week, no way. Has this ever happened to anyone else?