OHMYGOSH whatta day! Started off with the sad and somewhat unexpected passing of the last Mrs. Guppy. I thought she was doing better, but I guess those darn men just harassed her too much and she gave up. I feel awful. In my defense, when I was buying the guppies, the petsmart girl did tell me they'd be fine and not to buy any more females than 2 because I wouldn't want "THAT many" babies. I read differently later, but I already had them then and well, you know the story. 
Anyway, I had done a 33% water change yesterday, checked ammonia this morning and it was finally coming down, so I did another 33-40% change and then checked ammonia again several hours later and it was 0! I was thrilled! The 2 remaining boy guppies looked good, Mr. Betta was happy, the cories were scooting around, the mollies were chillin and life was good.
Kids and I went out to Petsmart to look around as I wanted another snail to put in the 10 gallon, since the 2 in the 5 gallon are doing SUCH a great job cleaning up after the frogs. I chose a blue mystery snail and he's beautiful! I also talked myself into a powder blue dwarf gourami. Please don't yell at me! I just keep looking at them and loving them and I bought the smallest one possible, he's barely more than an inch long and we're totally setting up the bigger tanks on the next payday which is less than 2 weeks away!
Anyway, so brought my two blue babies home and floated them and all that and had them in the tank and everyone was checking each other out and all. The betta and the gourami both did some fin flaring and puffing at each other and then went in opposite directions and settled down. The blue snail actually came right out and started crawling around almost immediately! I took that as a good sign.
I asked hubby to watch the boys so I could come in here and check email and the board. Next thing I know, I hear my husband saying "ADEN! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? YOUR MOTHER IS NOT GOING TO BE HAPPY WITH YOU!" And I'm going OMG, I don't want to know. Hubby is calling me in there going "honey, honey, honeeeyyyy" and I'm going "I don't want to know!" and he's like, yes you do, get in here. SO I see what has happened. First I just saw the kitchen counter was covered in fish flakes. Then, I noticed the tank water, which had been crystal clear not 15 minutes earlier when I last left the kitchen was suddenly all cloudy. Then I saw that the bottom of the tank, all the fake plants and rocks are covered in orange fish flakes. Commence freak out. :22_yikes:
I seriously almost started crying. I gave said 3 year old a lecture and sent him out of the kitchen. Told hubby he'd better get them both out of the house because I have to take care of my fish now and I'm unavailable till further notice. SO I took out approximately 60% of the water, maybe even 75%, took out all the decorations. Moved the 2 guppies and 1 of the mollies over to the other tank. I didn't move everyone, but figured it'd be easier to clean up with less fish in there. Rinsed off all the decorations. Shoveled out the top layer of gravel with the fish net and skimmed out as much flakes as I could and rinsed all that gravel to get rid of as much food as possible. Replaced the gravel, rearranged the furniture a bit, and refilled with water with aquarium salt, stress zyme and stress coat, per all directions.
So now the water is still super cloudy. I think I got as much out as I possibly could without taking out ALL the gravel. I put the molly back in, but left the 2 guppies in the 5 gallon for now. I may just leave them there. I understand they're quite good for my frogs. :lol2: I figured more fish would just make it harder to filter off all that excess. What else can I do to help? Will my fish be okay?
Should I do another water change in the morning? I'll test the water in the morning of course. I was SO happy to have gotten my ammonia all the way down and now this! GAH!
ETA: normally the fish food is locked up. I had just given everyone a bite to eat and forgot to lock the cabinet back.
Anyway, I had done a 33% water change yesterday, checked ammonia this morning and it was finally coming down, so I did another 33-40% change and then checked ammonia again several hours later and it was 0! I was thrilled! The 2 remaining boy guppies looked good, Mr. Betta was happy, the cories were scooting around, the mollies were chillin and life was good.
Kids and I went out to Petsmart to look around as I wanted another snail to put in the 10 gallon, since the 2 in the 5 gallon are doing SUCH a great job cleaning up after the frogs. I chose a blue mystery snail and he's beautiful! I also talked myself into a powder blue dwarf gourami. Please don't yell at me! I just keep looking at them and loving them and I bought the smallest one possible, he's barely more than an inch long and we're totally setting up the bigger tanks on the next payday which is less than 2 weeks away!
Anyway, so brought my two blue babies home and floated them and all that and had them in the tank and everyone was checking each other out and all. The betta and the gourami both did some fin flaring and puffing at each other and then went in opposite directions and settled down. The blue snail actually came right out and started crawling around almost immediately! I took that as a good sign.
I asked hubby to watch the boys so I could come in here and check email and the board. Next thing I know, I hear my husband saying "ADEN! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? YOUR MOTHER IS NOT GOING TO BE HAPPY WITH YOU!" And I'm going OMG, I don't want to know. Hubby is calling me in there going "honey, honey, honeeeyyyy" and I'm going "I don't want to know!" and he's like, yes you do, get in here. SO I see what has happened. First I just saw the kitchen counter was covered in fish flakes. Then, I noticed the tank water, which had been crystal clear not 15 minutes earlier when I last left the kitchen was suddenly all cloudy. Then I saw that the bottom of the tank, all the fake plants and rocks are covered in orange fish flakes. Commence freak out. :22_yikes:
I seriously almost started crying. I gave said 3 year old a lecture and sent him out of the kitchen. Told hubby he'd better get them both out of the house because I have to take care of my fish now and I'm unavailable till further notice. SO I took out approximately 60% of the water, maybe even 75%, took out all the decorations. Moved the 2 guppies and 1 of the mollies over to the other tank. I didn't move everyone, but figured it'd be easier to clean up with less fish in there. Rinsed off all the decorations. Shoveled out the top layer of gravel with the fish net and skimmed out as much flakes as I could and rinsed all that gravel to get rid of as much food as possible. Replaced the gravel, rearranged the furniture a bit, and refilled with water with aquarium salt, stress zyme and stress coat, per all directions.
So now the water is still super cloudy. I think I got as much out as I possibly could without taking out ALL the gravel. I put the molly back in, but left the 2 guppies in the 5 gallon for now. I may just leave them there. I understand they're quite good for my frogs. :lol2: I figured more fish would just make it harder to filter off all that excess. What else can I do to help? Will my fish be okay?
Should I do another water change in the morning? I'll test the water in the morning of course. I was SO happy to have gotten my ammonia all the way down and now this! GAH!
ETA: normally the fish food is locked up. I had just given everyone a bite to eat and forgot to lock the cabinet back.
Slap on another filter if you got to speed up the process. I normally don't read a loooong post but read every word you typed.
