My grandmother sevearly overpopulated tank

[Opcn]

2 gallons
set up for 2 months
Ph~7.5
Temp ~70
Amonia~0
Nitrite~0
Nitrate?
(25% water change every 3-4 days) with aged water

2 Femal Gupys with 20 fry (4-1/2 inch 16-new born)
1 White Cloud
25 MTS from ---- to --
1 ghost shrimp (just added to help clean up the gunk)

Okay I know it is way overstocked and she cant help but overfeed them and she doesn't know what to do with the fry (she doesn't want to euthanise or buy a new tank) Well 3 days ago she lost her male guppy (he was happy but then she found him in the filter intake the next morning) and last night a huge fungus grew across the substrate and filter and fake plant It looks like dust bunnys also the very pregnant guppy has a small wound next to her opening.

Other than fixing the maintainance problems and useing melafix what else would you suggest that I do.

Thanks

Opcn

 

[marks69]

she needs a new tank, or see if you can take the fry off her hands.
that tank could hold the 2 females, but thats about it.when is her birthday, you could get her a bigger tank.lol

 

[Opcn]

I keep telling her not to feed them for a week and half the fry will be gone but she wont do it.

but the real question is what to use to get rid of the fungus.

Opcn

 

[jams.alaskan]

I'd get rid of the fry first - could you take them? Maybe the melafix will help to condition the water but I've never had fungus like that in a tank. I'd manually remove what you can just to clear it up a bit. Best of luck.

ALASKA

 

[Silly me]

The fry seems to be your biggest problem right now. it is very hard to get a overstocked tank in a good condition.
remove the extra fish and you see most problem will resolve themself with normal water changes.

 

[Carolinesugar]

hiya, well it sounds like the fungas/algae has started from having to many fish in the tank, but u cud try doing a sustrate clean, with with 1 that will also do a water change, or just 1 that sucks up the algae.

theres also the option that u cud just rub the algae off of the substrate with ur hands? its sumthing i do from time to time with my lil glass ornaments.

u sud try telling her that the entire population of her tank will die if she keeps over feeding. thats how i managed to get my mum to stop over feeding hers.

because the fry are so young, the shop probbabilly wont take them off of u. is there not a friend who has space for them ?

best of luck!

 

[Nina7777]

I am not sure where your from, but you can buy a 1 gallon tank around her for 8 bucks. You could always take the fry home with you put them in there and when they get a little larger ask the lfs to take them. I am surprised there hasn't been more fatalities then that. It is such a tiny tank for so many fish.

Good Luck