Ok, so I'm a newb to the forum and the hobby and I've been getting some help from some of y'all and I can't appreciate it enough. So as I'm ramping it up and getting more into it, I'm following some advice and doing a water change today and my filter seems to be acting up yet AGAIN! UGH! I spend a couple of hours fiddling with it all, but I'm puzzled about the filter. I mean, I just followed y'alls advice and fixed it so what did I do wrong??
I try a couple of stupid things, and then open the filter canister itself. OMFG! There is a fish in my intake hose!! I mean, it's like "dead" dead! Not only that, but it's poor little face has been misformed into the shape of the suction tube! It's snout is in the shape of the smaller tube to the filter. I've never seen that before and I feel awful! So of course the first thing I do is call my teenagers to come over and take it out of the filter hose because I can't do it. I don't know what to do to keep that from happening again.
I try a couple of stupid things, and then open the filter canister itself. OMFG! There is a fish in my intake hose!! I mean, it's like "dead" dead! Not only that, but it's poor little face has been misformed into the shape of the suction tube! It's snout is in the shape of the smaller tube to the filter. I've never seen that before and I feel awful! So of course the first thing I do is call my teenagers to come over and take it out of the filter hose because I can't do it. I don't know what to do to keep that from happening again.
