Fungus???---please help

[James and Vikki Gilby]

IIRC This has been brought up before, but I couldn't find the post...I have
developed (quite rapidly) a white fungus spreading along the bottom of my
tank. Is this caused by overfeeding? too much light? or something else?
Any help is greatly appreciated....

--Jim--

[Dave Peck]

"James and Vikki Gilby" > wrote in message
news:pVeoc.495$2c7.470@fed1read07...
> IIRC This has been brought up before, but I couldn't find the post...I
have
> developed (quite rapidly) a white fungus spreading along the bottom of my
> tank. Is this caused by overfeeding? too much light? or something else?
> Any help is greatly appreciated....
>
> --Jim--


I am not an expert, but I had the same thing happen. I got replies that
said I was overfeeding so I cut back and after a good vacuuming it was gone
for good except for those times I somehow feed them too much again. I have
heard that hungry fish are healthy fish so you can probably cut way back on
what you are feeding, increasing until you see uneaten food and try and keep
it just below that level.

hth,

Dave

[RedForeman ©®]

|| IIRC This has been brought up before, but I couldn't find the
|| post...I have developed (quite rapidly) a white fungus spreading
|| along the bottom of my tank. Is this caused by overfeeding? too much
|| light? or something else? Any help is greatly appreciated....
|| --Jim--

Yes, typical overfeeding... Suggestion, vacuum as much out/off as possible,
change roughly 40-50% of the water, 7-10days later, do water change of 25%
and stop feeding such large amounts at one time.

Feed only what the fish can consume in 2min. If any reaches the bottom,
you're overfeeding. For your bottom feeders, use 2-3 pellets, or flakes
that make it to the bottom, but generally, the fish's stomach is nearly the
same size as their eyes or bigger...

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is that better??

[Dick]

On Wed, 12 May 2004 09:51:36 -0400, "RedForeman ©®"
> wrote:

>|| IIRC This has been brought up before, but I couldn't find the
>|| post...I have developed (quite rapidly) a white fungus spreading
>|| along the bottom of my tank. Is this caused by overfeeding? too much
>|| light? or something else? Any help is greatly appreciated....
>|| --Jim--
>
>Yes, typical overfeeding... Suggestion, vacuum as much out/off as possible,
>change roughly 40-50% of the water, 7-10days later, do water change of 25%
>and stop feeding such large amounts at one time.
>
>Feed only what the fish can consume in 2min. If any reaches the bottom,
>you're overfeeding. For your bottom feeders, use 2-3 pellets, or flakes
>that make it to the bottom, but generally, the fish's stomach is nearly the
>same size as their eyes or bigger...


Put small portions in and watch the fish eat. When the first portion
is gone, put another small portion in. Sometimes there is too much at
one time and the food sinks past the fish while their mouths are full.

I have a 75 gallon tank, and have to adjust my feeding amount to allow
food to get past the top feeders. My Bleeding Heart Tetras hide out
in the plants and dash up to catch the food just before it gets into
the plants. One nice thing about larger tanks they can be populated
to do special things. I have a range of bottom feeders that scour the
bottom, but I am still careful to feed at the speed that most of the
food is eaten before reaching the bottom.

If you have bottom feeders then some food on the bottom will not be a
problem.