Fish Tank
when do i clean my freshwater fish tank and how?
2 weeks ago i bought and setup my 20 gallon freshwater fish tank. That monday i bought 3 fish 2 i know for sure are mollies.The next day i notice 9 or 11 baby fishes swimming around the tank (petsmart didn’t tell me mollies are livebearing fish,least i got my money worths right). But now my fish tank stinks and the water is sorta cloudy. Also it’s so pink fuzzy stuff on the rocks. If anybody could help please do so!
Please, don’t listen to somebody who changes his water every six months and relies on chemicals to make up for laziness.
Magic man is absolutely right. You should do partial water changes, leaving the fish where they are. You should vacuum the gravel at the same time to keep too much waste from building up.
You must be careful not to overfeed. This is the most common reason for stinky and cloudy tanks. Fish don’t need much food and you do not need to stuff them to the gills at every feeding – it only creates waste. Anything they don’t eat should be syphoned out right away or the leftovers cause problems like you are going through.
I also agree with the theory of mystical star above – you can’t have a fishes water too clean. Daily water changes are excessive and can turn the hobby into a chore, but I should hope a persons fish are worth weekly maintenance. A gravel vacuum, water change, perhaps the scraping of algae off the tank walls, won’t take you more then 20-30 minutes each week.
SInce your tank was only set up 2 weeks ago, it’s still in its newest stages and not yet cycled. Water changes will additionally keep toxins lower and keep your fish from getting ill or dying.
Again though, be very careful with feeding. Once, twice, three times per day is fine, but feed them only what they will consume in about 2 minutes, TOTAL. SO if you feed them twice, try for just a minute. This by no means a rule of course – any advice should be taken only with common sense.
And do yourself and the fish a favour and don’t add anything besides dechlorinator to the water, and in the case of mollies, some salt. Anything else complicates the issue and increases the chances of further problems. Water clarifying chemicals, for instance, are a good way to put a band-aid on a problem instead of actually figuring out what’s wrong and properly fixing it.
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