so he dumped in hal a container of fish flakes, i have a 40 gallon tank with guppies, goramis, tetras, and a few snails, and frogs and a pecostimos now the water is all cloudy and i just changed it like 2 days ago what should i do????
2007-03-30 14:25:49 · 6 answers · asked by jenn c 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
Use a net to scoop out as much flake food as you can, use a gravel vacuum to pick up any off the bottom that the net can't grab. If you take out around 25% of the total volume of water while doing this (about the same as a water change), your filter should take care of the rest.
And put the fish food where three year old can't reach them, despite their good intentions.
2007-03-30 14:33:31 · answer #1 · answered by copperhead 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If you changed 100% of the water, that is the reason it is cloudy now. It is going through the new tank nitrogen cycle again. You should have only changed 30-40% of the water after you dipped out all the food. A siphon hose would have sucked out the food that had sunk while you were doing the partial water change.
During the cycling process, the water turns cloudy as bacteria build up to assist in the nitrogen cycle that all tanks go through when 100% of the water is removed and replaced.
The cloudiness will go away in a week or ten days on its own.
Every two or three days, remove about 30% of the water and replace it with fresh dechlorinated water. This shoud keep your fish alive until the cycle is completed.
If you have more questions, feel free to email me and I will help as much as I can.
2007-03-30 14:34:19 · answer #2 · answered by 8 In the corner 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
More importantly be cautious leaving the three year old w/ the fish aquarium. This time he only put fish food in there. What will be next? When I was working at the pet store a guy came in and was telling how his child had put the hamsters in the tank.
2007-03-30 14:41:57 · answer #3 · answered by Me 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Change the water
2007-03-30 14:42:28 · answer #4 · answered by Jessica 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looks like it's time to change the water again. Siphon off more than... oh 25 gal. , add more Deionized Dihydrogen Monooxygen (Little bit of chem humor...that's non-chlorinated water for ya.) and you should be good to go.
2007-03-30 14:34:41 · answer #5 · answered by IHTFP 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Change it again, I know that it is time consuming but the dirty water can be harmful to the fish.
2007-03-30 14:33:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anon101 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋