Quick Stupid Question

[Confish]

after ive done a water change using a gravel vac to clean up the tank and afterwards everything is looking beaut after 2 days or just a day the substrate is already covered in poop and looking dirty just wondering how you guys and gals keep you tanks clean

 

[kevin82]

after ive done a water change using a gravel vac to clean up the tank and afterwards everything is looking beaut after 2 days or just a day the substrate is already covered in poop and looking dirty just wondering how you guys and gals keep you tanks clean

Nothing you can do other than keep vacuuming. Some fish are just messy.

I used to have 2 large gourami and my gravel was always a mess must like yours. I got rid of them and the tank floor is almost always clean, so much so I'm wonderding if my fish poop at all.

 

[Confish]

after ive done a water change using a gravel vac to clean up the tank and afterwards everything is looking beaut after 2 days or just a day the substrate is already covered in poop and looking dirty just wondering how you guys and gals keep you tanks clean

Nothing you can do other than keep vacuuming. Some fish are just messy.

I used to have 2 large gourami and my gravel was always a mess must like yours. I got rid of them and the tank floor is almost always clean, so much so I'm wonderding if my fish poop at all.

ye i was guessing it would be #40## lol no type of fish will help clean is there? (eat poop)

 

[Wills]

no fish will eat poop but what I have found to work is get fish that scavenge quite a bit to break up the big bits then when they get broken up it gets caught up in the current and goes to the filter. Or you could get a battery powered vacum that just returns the water to the tank but traps poop into a net.

I hate how much of this hobby is dependent on poop

no fish will eat poop but what I have found to work is get fish that scavenge quite a bit to break up the big bits then when they get broken up it gets caught up in the current and goes to the filter. Or you could get a battery powered vacum that just returns the water to the tank but traps poop into a net.

I hate how much of this hobby is dependent on poop

 

[fishnovice]

no fish will eat poop but what I have found to work is get fish that scavenge quite a bit to break up the big bits then when they get broken up it gets caught up in the current and goes to the filter. Or you could get a battery powered vacum that just returns the water to the tank but traps poop into a net.

I hate how much of this hobby is dependent on poop

no fish will eat poop but what I have found to work is get fish that scavenge quite a bit to break up the big bits then when they get broken up it gets caught up in the current and goes to the filter. Or you could get a battery powered vacum that just returns the water to the tank but traps poop into a net.

I hate how much of this hobby is dependent on poop

A battery powered Pooper Scooper sounds great as I now have 2 big plecs plus turtles- who makes them (brand name) and where can I get one from in UK? Do they have to be on all the time like filters or just used to suck up visible poop when necessary? Can I use the same one for diferent tanks?

 

[Wills]

Yeah its basically like a syphon but rather than the water going out the tank it just goes through the net where as the poo gets stuck in the net but cleaning out the net is pretty nasty..... I think you can get them most places Ive seen them in pets at home before.

 

[Monty-2010]

I've got a nice big plec whos a pretty messy #28###, his cr*ps everywhere!

 

[didz04]

Well plecs are the worst for poop and I had to give away mine which was upsetting however i had white sand so it really showed and the tank looked to messy. I had 2 pictus catfish which were really good to brake up the waste because they were out swimming most of the time and swam all around the tank.

 

[Confish]

ye i was thinking what fish i could get though as ive got a convict jewel and a clown pleco and dora striped catfish soon to b adding a nic and jd with tiger barbs as dithers any ideas?

 

[snowflake311]

I the scat fish eats poop. But it's likes salty water and full saltwater setups once they are mature. That's the only fish I know that eats poop.

Do you have a pleco? They are the reason my tank gets dirty so fast. You could add more current to move the poop to the intake tubes. But fish like to poop nothing we can do about that maybe feed them less.

 

[Confish]

I the scat fish eats poop. But it's likes salty water and full saltwater setups once they are mature. That's the only fish I know that eats poop.

Do you have a pleco? They are the reason my tank gets dirty so fast. You could add more current to move the poop to the intake tubes. But fish like to poop nothing we can do about that maybe feed them less.

ye ive goy a clown pleco. i was wondering what fish i could get that would break up the poop so it would the be lifted up by the current into intake

 

[england]

Your best bet is to get a external filter, level out the substrate so it slopes down towards the intake of the filter,but i would imagine the turts will mess that up pretty quick, my sister has turts,before she had a big internal filter and there was poop everywhere,so i went out and brought her the 405..now theres hardly any poop,which is good...with really messy fish you best having bare bottom and syphoning daily,just a quick once over,prob remove about 10litres