Help! What Has Gone Wrong In My Tank?

[Chris&Phia]

I had recently been treated my tank for finrot therefore all carbon was out of the tank. This was for about 4 days. ammonia levels were 0 throughout. However, within a matter of a day and night my tank has gone very cloudy! I have done an at least 50% water change, some cloud went but its still extremely cloudy. Fish are occasionally at the top but are swimming elsewhere. I have 5 adult guppies, 10 older guppy fry and about 70 baby fry (2 weeks ish), two panda coridorouses and one bristlenose pleco in a 48 litre tank. Plenty of areation too.

Im stumped, please help!

Thanks, Phia.

 

[WILDER]

Your tanks severely overstocked.
I would see if the lfs would take the fry off your hands.
Plec are massive waste producers.
How often do you do a gravel vac.
Water changes and increase aeration.

 

[Chris&Phia]

Your tanks severely overstocked.
I would see if the lfs would take the fry off your hands.
Plec are massive waste producers.
How often do you do a gravel vac.
Water changes and increase aeration.

Phia has had the fry in there for two weeks now with no problems (apart from a tiny spot of finront which we think has now cleared up). Its suddenly turned cloudy today. There was think clear slime inside the filter. She does a vac clean once a week but hasnt done this since the med went in (4days ago). She has done a water change and cleaned the gravel today.

She has recenty changed the make of the food (2days ago), but still feeds them flake as before?!

Thanks, Chris.

 

[WILDER]

Thats alot of fish in such a small tank.
The tanks isn't even big enough just for the fry.
If you want to carrying on breeding the fish you will have to get a fry tank.
The tanks cloudy because it's overstocked and the filter not coping with all the fish.

 

[pippoodle]

in the mean time you will need to be doing 3-4 water changes a week until you can get a larger tank
i know this is a pain in the bum but it will help to stop the water getting in a bad way from having too many fish

i would also cut feeding back to every other day
the fry will be fine on that
all my fry are just kept in the community tank and are fed every other day along with the main fish - no special fry food added and they are all doing perfectly well - i am overrun with fry
just make sure you add the food flake food first enough to eat in 2 mins and then add the bottom feeders food , this can stay in the tank for 1 hour but any excess should then be removed

good luck
Sarah x

 

[Chris&Phia]

My tank is perfectly fine now, asked a fish man and he said it isnt uncommon for it to go cloudy 6-8 weeks after starting up a new tank, the fry have been in there for about two weeks now and nothing had gone wrong since.

Thanks for the replies now, im not planning on keeping the fry anyway, but everything is back to normal now.

Thanks, Phia.