Water Purifier

can you give me some tips on how to choose the correct water filter for my fish tank?

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gemmystones2008 asked:


i have this small aquarium and i have bought an angel fish and gold fish but i dont have yet a water filter to clean the water…

Kerry

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• catxcatxx

  June 18, 2007 | 12:22 PM
  

  what size is this tank??

  take both fish back to the store. neither are suitable for a small aquarium, nor should they be kept together. an angelfish is a large semi-aggressive tropical cichlid, a goldfish is large, bullish, messy coldwater fish.

  and without a filter they will both make the water toxic within a matter of hours and die.

  even if you got a filter now it needs to go through the nitrogen cycle BEFORE any fish is added, and this cycle takes anything from 2-6 weeks.

• lissyvonzip

  June 20, 2007 | 1:04 PM
  

  I agree with the other answer, you should let your tank cycle for a while before you do anything and you really should get rid of both fish because they will most likely die, for a small tank I would suggest a HOB filter (hang on the back) aquaclear makes really good ones or you could try one withe biowheels from penguin. I always try to get a filter that is rated for double the size of the tank.

• § Elijah §

  June 20, 2007 | 3:53 PM
  

  If its under or around 5 gallons one or two sponge filters is about all you can do without making an insane current I especially like the Pen-Plax small world filter). 10 gallons and up I would highly Recomend the Penguin filters with the bio-wheel. Some of them are pretty expennsive. I have had good luck with the Tetra Whisper Filters too.

• Monster Fish Keeper

  June 23, 2007 | 4:46 AM
  

  Wow, you kinda put the cart before the horse here didn’t ya. Cat is right, you need to take the fish back, get a filter for the tank, get it cycled, then get fish. Also you need to research what fish are suitable for the size tank you have.

  MFK