Thank you so much. ( :
Wow. I'm so glad they survived.
I had put the sponge inside the intake strainer...
That is what I was instructed to do by an employee at the fish store immediately following the first death. Obviously, it didn't work. It was after the second one was killed, later that day, that I returned to the store and the owner was there. He is the one who sold me the sponges which are made by Fluval to go on the outside. He's also the one who told me it happens all the time and the reason they don't tell you is because they want to sell the sponges. Then, he suggested I sue the company as he is pretty disgusted by them. I can't sue the company...well, I think it would be a great case...but I'm not going to go through all that. I did send in a complaint; haven't heard back. I'll try calling them when I get the time. / :
Ken sorry to hear your bad news as i have peppers and they're adorable and i have a friend who had one of these and it was sucking his guppies and he removed it in the end and got a sponge filter instead.
This is what I have done. I bought sponges made for especially by Fluval for Fluval intake strainers so Fluval filters won't kill your fish. Sadly, I only learned about them after 2 fish were killed. What I would would like Fluval to do is include these sponges in the box with the filter or suggest that they be bought separately. I don't know why they don't do this. As the store owner told me, "fish get sucked up and killed all the time" by these Fluval filters. Very sorry to hear your friend's guppies. It is heart breaking; peppered corys are adorable with unique personalities. My family and I had grown as attached to them as we would our dog or a cat (and expected to have them for 10-15 years). So, when folks laugh it off or say, "Chalk it up to experience," and so forth it kind of hurts. In my opinion, it's negligent on the part of Fluval. I just can't understand why they don't put a warning somewhere or just put the sponges in the box and charge an extra $6.99 which is what I paid for each of them. Thanks for backing up my experience my fish loving friend ( :
I hear you. I did read all the instructions. Shopped all the filter possibilities on-line. Watched Youtube videos. Finally, came to the conclusion that buying 2 Fluval 110 power filters was the safest and best thing to do for the fish. I don't know what else I could have done. Never a word was said or written about the possibility of fish being sucked up and killed by said machine. If it had I would not have bought them. Or, if the instructions had suggested buying the sponges I finally bought, I would have done so.
Well my fluval roma came with a U4 and i stripped out the filtration it came with and added my own they're great systems and really quiet, i added a fine carbon sponge at the bottom with 10 18mm bio balls, then netted to bags of carbon and zeolite and slotted the down the sides and then another fine layer of carbon sponge with netted bio rings on top and i have 12 cories and suffer no trouble.
I did this with my top filter for my 1st betta to protect his tail and it kept clogging up, so i cut a netted bag and wrapped it around it and secured it with 3 small plastic bands for in aquariums and i just fetch it off twice a weeks and rinse the net at the end.
