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iwish40
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Ok, here's what happened.
I have a 55gl Fresh water tank..with a Double Flitration pump, + 2 underground filters..which work great.
I "had" 1 12&1/2in Tire Track Eel, 1 6 in Dinosaur Eel, 1 Black Ghost,
2 Cory Cats.
What has survived is. 1 Peach colored Oscar 8in long and 1 Cory Cat, and 1 Black African knife.
No one ate the other...What happened was at the bottom of my tank this White cotton looking stuff started growing....I believe that the food was bad, because 1st of all my Tire Track eel stoped eating, (he went 2 weeks without eating) and that wasn't like him, a day or too ok, but not longer. I also found out that the cotton stuff was from over feeding and that made the bacteria grow. I think it was from a bad batch of Krill the kind you buy in the bottle.. I called a fish store and the mgr of the Freshwater dept, said that Flake food if it gets too old, (like when you buy the big bottles of fish food) looses its Vitamin C, which inturn lets the Amonia get higher in the tank, which lets the Cotton stuff grow.
So, I siphoned over 1/2 the tank, scraped, and scraped the bottom of the tank, then took the net and went back and forth grabbing the floating stuff(cotton). refilled the tank, added the chemicals + Aquairium salt. and cleaned out my pumps and put new fliter pads in ( i did NOT risne out the Bio sponges, just pulled any gook off of them.
My tank is clear and I don't see any more cotton stuff, and my 3 fish are fine....So how long should I wait before adding new fish?
P.S. Both of my Eels and cats, I've have had for 1 yr. The Oscar for about 5 months and the Black Knife about 2 months.
I have a 55gl Fresh water tank..with a Double Flitration pump, + 2 underground filters..which work great.
I "had" 1 12&1/2in Tire Track Eel, 1 6 in Dinosaur Eel, 1 Black Ghost,
2 Cory Cats.
What has survived is. 1 Peach colored Oscar 8in long and 1 Cory Cat, and 1 Black African knife.
No one ate the other...What happened was at the bottom of my tank this White cotton looking stuff started growing....I believe that the food was bad, because 1st of all my Tire Track eel stoped eating, (he went 2 weeks without eating) and that wasn't like him, a day or too ok, but not longer. I also found out that the cotton stuff was from over feeding and that made the bacteria grow. I think it was from a bad batch of Krill the kind you buy in the bottle.. I called a fish store and the mgr of the Freshwater dept, said that Flake food if it gets too old, (like when you buy the big bottles of fish food) looses its Vitamin C, which inturn lets the Amonia get higher in the tank, which lets the Cotton stuff grow.
So, I siphoned over 1/2 the tank, scraped, and scraped the bottom of the tank, then took the net and went back and forth grabbing the floating stuff(cotton). refilled the tank, added the chemicals + Aquairium salt. and cleaned out my pumps and put new fliter pads in ( i did NOT risne out the Bio sponges, just pulled any gook off of them.
My tank is clear and I don't see any more cotton stuff, and my 3 fish are fine....So how long should I wait before adding new fish?
P.S. Both of my Eels and cats, I've have had for 1 yr. The Oscar for about 5 months and the Black Knife about 2 months.