Raw Fish Cloudy Water?

TimmyB42386

TimmyB42386

PO'd Crawdad
Dec 15, 2006
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Last night I had some striper my father in law caught and thought it might be an interesting treat to give a few little pieces (all white meat of course)to my sorubim lima, african knife, pinktail, and baby arowana. These are spread out over a few tanks, but when I woke up in the morning the tank with the african knife, and few other fish was cloudy. Not just a little cloudy, a lot cloudy. I immediatly ran for my test kit becuase I thought the tank might be going through a mini cycle, but my params are good. A0 N0 Nitrate less than 10 ph 6.8 79 degrees. I do weekly/biweekly 50% wc's It is a 44 gallon pentagon. Please do no attack me for overstocking the tank, I realize it's overstocked but I keep the 44 gal stocked with juvenile fish rescued from the stores (mostly ich) being that its so easily treated for the most part. BTW I know how you guys like all the info, which is why this is such a lengthy post, but do you think some oil off the fish might have clouded the water to the point of looking like a cycling tank? Well maybe its not THAT cloudy and I make sure the water is crystal clear all the time because I am tad anal... anways.. I put the pieces in one at a time and made sure they were eaten to make sure none was lost to rot. Could the minimal amount of time they were free floating (8-10) seconds max release enough oil to make the water noticably cloudy?

Thanks in advance

Tim
 
nobody can know what caused the problem but doing a few water changes should fix things. as always, there will be lots of 'guesses' on this, but guesses are pretty useless in the final analyses.
 
i can't believe your father in law caught a stripper. that's hot. wah wah wahhhhh bad joke.

i agree, if you levels are cool. some water changes should clear it up. I'd just keep a watchful eye on levels and fish behavior. I'm sure you're doing that already so I think you will be okay!
 
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I did a water change on wednesday, i thought i saw all the food go into a mouth but they could have spit it out.....
 
I had to read the father-in-law and caught striper thing a few times. ;)

Water changes and carbon.

You'll have to find new homes for some of those larger fish once they grow.
 
check under all decor for uneaten food.
are stripers oily fish, i feed whitebait for my preds and always have a film on the top of my water but its never cloudy.
 
i will upgrade as needed
im not sure if they are oily or not... but when cooked they arent overly greasy.
 
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