Things That Eat Fish Poo?

[Teelie]

Yep, they're a food fish for people too.

 

[voycey]

Powerhead usage wouldnt be feasible as it would just blow the sand away.

The messy tank has 2 Angels, 1 Large Plec and 2 red tailed loaches

my other tank as 2 FireMouth cichlids, 2 Green Terrors, 2 medium plecs, 2 clown loaches and one oscar

Both 4ft x 1ft x 1.5ft tanks

Fluval 3+ filters

 

[BigC]

You are always going to have to perform tank maintenance weither it be fish poo, uneaten food or plant debris. It goes with the territory. If you arn't prepared to do this then perhaps you should have bought a picture of an aquarium.
Sorry to sound sooo harsh but thats the way things are, you are trying in a sense to replicate nature in your living room therefore it involves a certain amount of elbow grease.
I apologise once again if I sounded too direct.
Regards
BigC

 

[Fella]

Powerhead usage wouldnt be feasible as it would just blow the sand away.

The messy tank has 2 Angels, 1 Large Plec and 2 red tailed loaches

my other tank as 2 FireMouth cichlids, 2 Green Terrors, 2 medium plecs, 2 clown loaches and one oscar

Both 4ft x 1ft x 1.5ft tanks

Fluval 3+ filters

Well, you're overstocked from what I can tell. You're cramming a shoeboxes worth of poo into a matchbox, and underfiltering as well. If you'd said this in the first post it might have made things a bit easier to work out.

 

[voycey]

Powerhead usage wouldnt be feasible as it would just blow the sand away.

The messy tank has 2 Angels, 1 Large Plec and 2 red tailed loaches

my other tank as 2 FireMouth cichlids, 2 Green Terrors, 2 medium plecs, 2 clown loaches and one oscar

Both 4ft x 1ft x 1.5ft tanks

Fluval 3+ filters

Well, you're overstocked from what I can tell. You're cramming a shoeboxes worth of poo into a matchbox, and underfiltering as well. If you'd said this in the first post it might have made things a bit easier to work out.

My cichlid tank is fine to maintain - thats in there for comparison -


How is 2 angels, 1 plec and 2 red tailed loaches overstocked??

@Big C - im more than aware of the need to keep an aquarium clean, I have been keeping fish for a long time, these angels just seem to be crapping a lot more than is expected.

 

[Fella]

I can only imagine your filter is malfunctioning if by somehow you are having to do less maintenance on a tank containing 2 Green Terrors, 2 Plecs and an Oscar (Which seems to be very overstocked btw, how long has that tank been set up?).

What comes out of a fish is only what goes in. Cut down on so much feeding for the angels and see what happens.

 

[voycey]

I can only imagine your filter is malfunctioning if by somehow you are having to do less maintenance on a tank containing 2 Green Terrors, 2 Plecs and an Oscar (Which seems to be very overstocked btw, how long has that tank been set up?).

What comes out of a fish is only what goes in. Cut down on so much feeding for the angels and see what happens.

I will do - im gonna be check whether it is them who are doing the majority of it - I have a feeling it might be the plec / loaches but I never see them.

The filter works fine - but its not gonna pick up large pieces of poo unless i wanna create a massive flow rate (whcih i dont!)

 

[BigC]

What foodstuffs are you feeding the Angels?

 

[voycey]

Feeding them Tetra Flakes (coloured ones with some gimmicky energy disc) - literally a pinch.

Occasionally Frozen bloodworm (once a week) and then Pleco Wafers for the plec (as there isnt much/any algae in the tank)

 

[PlecMama]

Sure it's not plec poo? Mine can so a strand 8 inches long at a time!

 

[BWBettas]

erm your prblem mght be the "big plec" they create a masive amount f waste as a small plec but if yours is big then it must create a ton of poo every hour

 

[voycey]

I was watching them last night and im starting to think its the plec, because they graze I never know how much to feed them and the loaches, the tank is immaculate and ive bought plants so they purposely wont eat them, how much do you feed your plecs?

He is about 4 inches and have two 3 inch red tailed loaches, I normally put in about 4/5 pleco wafers every other day

 

[akryden]

thats funny stuff.
i have 2 plecs one is about 5 1/2" the other 6 1/2" and they will drag around a strand of poo twice their size lol.
and it seams to hapen at least twice a day each (but i love to feed my fish just have to clean more). i will actualy use a tooth pick and fish them out every nite. takes about 2 min and tank looks much better much longer. as far as feeding you could cut back to twice a week, this will also help keep them smaller longer because they do get big. good luck.

 

[GuppyDude]

Yea, ill probably never keep large or medium sized plecs ever again, they are incredibly messy. I swear mine pooped more than he ate.

 

[**sarahp**]

I've just rescued 2 common plecs - they are about 7" each and boy the amount of poop in the tank this morning

Sooner I can re-home them the better