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Hello. This doesn't concern a cichlid tank, but you all have been so helpful in the past I wanted to post what should be a general question about food.
I have a really small pleco in a 20 gal. tank that has been cycled for quite some time. Water quality, to the best of my knowledge is fine, and I change it periodically.
I'm having trouble feeding it though. It seems that no matter what food I put in the tank, literally overnight it will have a large amount of white fuzzy fungus growing on it. I have tried sinking pellets, and two different brands of algae wafers. The food eventually floats up to the filter and gets stuck on the inlet and gets very nasty.
This used to not be the case. I do not know what is going on. I suspected the quite old algae wafers I was using just went bad. So I replaced it with a new bag of a different brand but had the same results. I also added some sinking pellets and they did the same thing.
I'm not sure what started this but I'm concerned that I can't keep any food in the tank long enough for the pleco to eat. This will be my third one that I have bought.
Anybody know what this is and how to fix it?
P.S. I'm not sure if this is related but in the last few weeks I have had a very serious problem with algae blooms. I try treating with algaefix and changing the water and I get it under control, but after a few days, almost overnight it turns green again and gets bad quickly. I have had two significant outbreaks and just changed the water tonight again. I have a 100gal tank sitting next to this one and I have none of these problems.
I have a really small pleco in a 20 gal. tank that has been cycled for quite some time. Water quality, to the best of my knowledge is fine, and I change it periodically.
I'm having trouble feeding it though. It seems that no matter what food I put in the tank, literally overnight it will have a large amount of white fuzzy fungus growing on it. I have tried sinking pellets, and two different brands of algae wafers. The food eventually floats up to the filter and gets stuck on the inlet and gets very nasty.
This used to not be the case. I do not know what is going on. I suspected the quite old algae wafers I was using just went bad. So I replaced it with a new bag of a different brand but had the same results. I also added some sinking pellets and they did the same thing.
I'm not sure what started this but I'm concerned that I can't keep any food in the tank long enough for the pleco to eat. This will be my third one that I have bought.
Anybody know what this is and how to fix it?
P.S. I'm not sure if this is related but in the last few weeks I have had a very serious problem with algae blooms. I try treating with algaefix and changing the water and I get it under control, but after a few days, almost overnight it turns green again and gets bad quickly. I have had two significant outbreaks and just changed the water tonight again. I have a 100gal tank sitting next to this one and I have none of these problems.