HOLLAND (WZZM)-- My Fun Fish Tank claims to be the self-cleaning aquarium you simply add clean water and it pushes the dirty water on the bottom of the tank out. The commercial looks like brown, dirty water easily goes out through a tube on the side of the tank, and the fish doesn't have to be removed.
16-year-old Serena Sharar helped me test it out. She's in charge of cleaning her family's fish tank, which requires her to carry the heavy tank to the sink, dump dirty water that splashes everywhere, and she has to rinse out the rocks while using a strainer.
The My Fun Fish Tanks looks so much easier. It was easy to assemble. It comes with rocks, a plaster grate for the bottom and tubing that attaches to allow dirty water to flow out.
The directions say to add 16 ounces of clean water, or a pitcher of water for a more thorough cleaning. We let the fish tank get dirty for two weeks, and it was very dirty and smelly when we cleaned it. It took several glasses of water to get it clean. We ended up dumping three pitchers of dirty water, but eventually, the tank did get clean.
It was nice not to have to remove the fish, and also nice that you don't have to touch the dirty water.
It is small, just a half gallon tank. You probably will want to give it a more thorough cleaning once a month, just to wipe out the tank or clean the rocks better. But overall, something kids could clean themselves. The LED light it comes with burned out in one day, so keep that in mind. It looks better with the light, but it doesn't last long.
We found it for $14.99 at a number of places like Bed Bath and Beyond, WalMart and Target
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