fish food, fish, and 2yr olds-help/advise please

Hi,

I just finished giving my fish tank a 50% water change after finding
out that my 2yr daughter decided that she needed to feed the fish
the remains of an old container of fish food (about 3.5 g of brine
shrimp).

I've skimmed as much off of the fish food off of the top of the
water that I could, and I've set the filter on high to clear the
water out faster. They obvously won't be fed again tonight, and
tomorrow is their scheduled fast day. I'm also thinking of not
feeding them on Thursday, just to be sure, though I don't know if
that's necessary to go that far.

The fish in my tank are comprised of 6 white mountain cloud minnows,
and 3 albino corys.

Aside from keeping an eye on them, is there anything else that I
could, or even should be doing? I'd appreciate any advice that
anyone has to offer.

Thankc in advance,

--
W. Steven Schneider

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 03:30:00 GMT, Steven Schneider
wrote:

Hi,

I just finished giving my fish tank a 50% water change after finding
out that my 2yr daughter decided that she needed to feed the fish
the remains of an old container of fish food (about 3.5 g of brine
shrimp).

I've skimmed as much off of the fish food off of the top of the
water that I could, and I've set the filter on high to clear the
water out faster. They obvously won't be fed again tonight, and
tomorrow is their scheduled fast day. I'm also thinking of not
feeding them on Thursday, just to be sure, though I don't know if
that's necessary to go that far.

The fish in my tank are comprised of 6 white mountain cloud minnows,
and 3 albino corys.

Aside from keeping an eye on them, is there anything else that I
could, or even should be doing? I'd appreciate any advice that
anyone has to offer.

Thankc in advance,


Just keep an eye on the water, figure on doing more water changes than
usual until whatever food that got missed has decayed. The food
probably didn't hurt the fish at all, but the fouled water can.

Moments before spontaneously combusting Steven Schneider at
was heard opining:

Hi,

I just finished giving my fish tank a 50% water change after finding
out that my 2yr daughter decided that she needed to feed the fish
the remains of an old container of fish food (about 3.5 g of brine
shrimp).

Make sure to keep ALL fish meds and fish food out of the reach of children.

Aside from keeping an eye on them, is there anything else that I
could, or even should be doing?

Use a gravel vacuum and vac out whatever hit the gravel. Watch for a
bacterial bloom in a day or so and keep up the water changes.
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In article , Charles says...

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 03:30:00 GMT, Steven Schneider
wrote:

Hi,

I just finished giving my fish tank a 50% water change after finding
out that my 2yr daughter decided that she needed to feed the fish
the remains of an old container of fish food (about 3.5 g of brine
shrimp).

I've skimmed as much off of the fish food off of the top of the
water that I could, and I've set the filter on high to clear the
water out faster. They obvously won't be fed again tonight, and
tomorrow is their scheduled fast day. I'm also thinking of not
feeding them on Thursday, just to be sure, though I don't know if
that's necessary to go that far.

The fish in my tank are comprised of 6 white mountain cloud minnows,
and 3 albino corys.

Aside from keeping an eye on them, is there anything else that I
could, or even should be doing? I'd appreciate any advice that
anyone has to offer.

Thankc in advance,


Just keep an eye on the water, figure on doing more water changes than
usual until whatever food that got missed has decayed. The food
probably didn't hurt the fish at all, but the fouled water can.


.... and vacuum the gravel as soon as you can.

--
Jim Anderson
( 8(|) To eMail me, just pull "my_finger"

Steven wrote,
The fish in my tank are comprised of 6 white mountain cloud minnows,
and 3 albino corys.........
just finished giving my fish tank a 50% water change .........

Sounds like a small tank. I would change 20% of the water daily for the
next few days. Small tanks are not as near as forgiving as larger
tanks.

tomorrow is their scheduled fast day. I'm also thinking of not
feeding them on Thursday, just to be sure..............

To build immunity fish need protein - energy. Not feeding (fasting) is
not helping the fish!
.............. Frank

In article ,
Steven Schneider wrote:
I just finished giving my fish tank a 50% water change after finding
out that my 2yr daughter decided that she needed to feed the fish
the remains of an old container of fish food (about 3.5 g of brine
shrimp).

Ouch.

The fish in my tank are comprised of 6 white mountain cloud minnows,
and 3 albino corys.

Good and hardy.

Aside from keeping an eye on them, is there anything else that I
could, or even should be doing? I'd appreciate any advice that
anyone has to offer.

You'll probably need to do the same thing for a week. It's
gonna get cloudy and stink.

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On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 03:30:00 GMT, Steven Schneider
wrote:

Hi,

I just finished giving my fish tank a 50% water change after finding
out that my 2yr daughter decided that she needed to feed the fish
the remains of an old container of fish food (about 3.5 g of brine
shrimp).

My daughter was more creative at two than your daughter. My daughter
decided the fish food was too bland so she emptied an entire can of
black pepper into my tank.

-- Mister Gardener

In article ,
Mr. Gardener wrote:
Add good gravel vacuuming to the water changes.


Maybe. I'd be concerned about mixing food into the sunstate. I'd
siphon what I could off the surface but wouldn't churn it up
for maybe a week until the water cleared up.


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Thanks to everyone who responded. I've been doing partial water
changes everyday since "the incident" and the fish don't seem to be
suffering. I've also vacuumed the gravel the other night, and will
probably do so again either on the weekend, or just following it.

I'm also feeding the fish on their regular schedule. Based on the
responses I received I now see that there is no need to force
fasting on themi, especially as it might only cause them extra stress
that they probably don't need right about now. :-)

Anyhow, thanks again. In the meantime, I'll just keep up with the
extra water changes, and keeping an eye on the fish. If there's any
change out of the ordinary at least I'll know where to ask for help.

Also, I've taken the liberty of moving my food supplies for the
fish...once again. It keeps getting harder and harder to keep
things out of my two year old's reach. I don't remember her older
sister being such a little monkey. Ah well, my fault for lapsing in
keeping an eye on my own kids. :-)

--
W. Steven Schneider

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:23:19 GMT, Steven Schneider
wrote:

Also, I've taken the liberty of moving my food supplies for the
fish...once again. It keeps getting harder and harder to keep
things out of my two year old's reach. I don't remember her older
sister being such a little monkey. Ah well, my fault for lapsing in
keeping an eye on my own kids. :-)

I've been around several two year olds in my day, presently just one 2
year old grandson that poses a threat. He's been taught to "whisper"
when he's looking at the fish, and for some reason he understands
"whisper" as also meaning point carefully, but don't touch the glass.
It's sort of like "pet the kitty gently". So far so good. Tetra
includes a free plastic blue fish with blinking lights to remind you
when to do a water change, add nutrients, etc. It's really stupid
looking. I've suction cupped it to the front of the tank and
instructed Kamoy, my grandson, that this is his very own blue fish,
and he may press the buttons on it and make the lights blink whenever
he wants. So far so good. It was his mother, Liza, who fed the fish
pepper when she was 2. I hope this is not a genetic thing. 10 more
months until he's 3, and then there will be a whole new set of
curiosities to deal with. One year at a time.

-- Mister Gardener