Urgent Help Needed, Tubifex Feeding Clouding The Tank. Now How To Solv

[anshuman]

Hello,

Below is 10 days old video of my 46 Gallon Goldfish pair Planted tank, This is when i started to regularly feed the fish with worms.




I recently moved my goldfish fry batch (4 of them) to main Goldfish planted tank . And i had to feed the fry with Tubifex worms or bloodworms which they were used too. Unfortunately the BIG PARENTS finished the food quickly , so i had to put in LOTS of Tubifex worms (LIVE) in order to allow the fry get some food.

After 1 week, I now noticed the tank is EXTREMELY CLOUDY. the parameters in water are good, i have desparetely tried to do 40% water change daily for past 3 days still its cloudy.

Now i remember the Goldfish never really finished ALL the worms, and i used to see many worms flying in the tank, its a 2 feet tall planted tank, so impossible for me to fetch the remaining and they are probably in the gravel/sand.

How long do this worms survive in Tank? When will the clouding stop? How can i repair this situation?



Right now I have removed the fry into small tank, and stop feeding the main 46 G tank with worms, only pellets now. still I want to see the tank back to normal clean and clear.

Please help, its kindof turned into Emergency now.

 

[anshuman]

BTW, i have to add, its just 2 weeks ago I added 1 inch layer of Amazonia II (ADA) and it is topped up by heavy 2 inch layer of normal gravel/sand. I had this intuition that adding lots of Amazonia Soil on top will be WRONG and it might send up nutrients in water constantly and needs to be bedded down in the tank.

So i dont thinks ADA ASII is causing this clouding, still just a thought i wanted to add here since i started seeing Amazonia Soil has caused clouding issues in tank for others.

 

[anshuman]

UPDATE:

Since posting this, the tank has improved, infact , the clouds in bottom part of water, ALL GONE.

The only thing i did was remove 3 big fry from the tank and also put 5 ml of prime directly into the tank, previous to that, I kept doing 30%W.C and it had absolutely no effect in the tank, the tank was cloudy for 4-5 days. water parameters all good, except v v small nitrite level yesterday.

I have no idea what happened and what was solved. was it really bacteriabloom ? mini-cycle? ammonia-load due to goldfish overstocking? nitrifying bacteria taken a hit due to extra cleaning of filter media? don't know.

All i know is the tank so squeaky clean, I can imagine Billy Mays right in front of tank "HELLO, BILLY MAYS HERE, LOOK AT THIS TANK, DONT YOU WISH FISHTANK IN YOUR HOUSE WAS THIS SQUEAKY CLEAN? I HAVE SOMETHING FOR YOU TO DO JUST THAT".

 

[OldMan47]

If you are feeding primarily tubifex and bloodworms to your fry, you need to rethink things. Goldfish are largely vegetarian in nature and should have a diet that includes mostly vegetable protein. All fish will enjoy an addition of animal protein but it is like giving candy to children. Judging their needs by how eagerly they accept it is not a good idea.

 

[anshuman]

@oldman47
I know they are herbivorous The thing is, i recently started raising Killifish, they are now in big tank and I go to LFS for bloodworms and tubifex, he gives HUGE BULK , just for some cents literally. i have hard time throwing them out and thats why i thought its better to feed goldfish, I just went really overboard feeding the goldfish HUGE BULK daily for last week. that has been stopped for past 4 days and Tank has totally improved as i said.

Lesson learned, so i wont be feeding goldfish like this at all.

I have also learned at my place, the tubifex just dont die, i can keep changing the water (which turns white_cloudy due to ammonia and other excretion by the worms) in plastic container and they dont die at all And I can keep feeding the portions accepted by killifish and dont have to feed the remaining portion in goldfish tank. I am surprised the killifish are not that hungry as goldfish, they simply eat small portion maybe 2 times a day. the belly gets fat easily on small portions , tank stays SUPER CLEAN. .