I've overfed my fish. :( Now, the water is cloudy. How long will it take my aquarium to clear up? And how long should I wait to feed the fish again (how many hours)?
TIA,
Karen
Answers:
You need to do a water change of about 10% to get it to un-cloud. You are poisoning your fish with ammonia by letting the excess food sit in the tank. Feed your fish as you would daily, but make sure to change a small amount of the water every couple of days until it unclouds. HTH!
Warning!!! DO NOT change the filter or you will set your tank back on the cycling stage!! Just do a water change and rinse off your carbon portion of your filter where the food collects on the "wool", then put it back into the houseing on your filter.
The water will not clean itself.
Clean the tank. Use an aquarium vaccuum and suck up all of the excess food. Change half of the water. Put in a new filter and you should be good to go.
The best thing to do is turn the filter OFF. Let the food settle to the bottom (around 1/2 hour) Vack out the bottom of the tank and the extra foods. In short do a water change.
Turn the filter on and let it pull out the rest.
Feed your fish normally. They will not eat rotting food. However it does not hurt the fish NOT to feed them for a day.
You need to do water changes. 25% each day until the water clears (should only take 2-3 changes). You need to feed your fish very small amounts of food every other day for at least the first 2 months you have the tank set up. Its NOT a matter of hours. They will not starve but if you continue feeding the way you have, you will kill them by poisoning the water. Good Luck!
It depends on how cloudy, if you have good filtration and if you put way too much or just a little too much. Start by vacuuming the gravel and siphon out about 10-20% of the water. Use the siphoned water to lightly rinse your filter cartridges so you don't kill the bacteria growing in there. Put a small plate upside down on the gravel and pour treated room temperature water over the plate so you wont disturb the gravel . Remove the plate. Repeat in a few days. Feed the fish as normal.
How big is your aquarium and what is in it. These things may change the answer slightly.
use a siphon to clear out the excess food and waste. after you add more water and the water conditioner, add some biological conditioners like bio-boost or cycle. if it is still pretty cloudy over the next couple days, you can buy chemical soultions that will clear the tank. the stuff i have is called ACCU-CLEAR you just put in one dose and it will clear within about 8 hours. if it hasn't, then repeat the dose the next day. after that if it is still cloudy don't add any more, clean the gravel. i wouldn't stop feeding the fish, just cut your portion in half or maybe even a fourth.
i just saw you have a ghost knife, watch him as the other fish grow. he may get picked on by the angles and the oscar, infact the oscar may harrass majority of the other fish in the tank.
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