Cleaning

by **Momo** on Sat Aug 28, 2010 10:28 am

Hi everyone, I have a new Tank and the water is starting to get a little cloudy, but i'm not sure how to clean it...

Info:
- it's made of plexiglass
- it's a ~2.5 gallon tank
- L: 30cm ; H: ~23cm ; W: ~20cm
- it has a betta, a pleco, a algae eater and a spiny eel.

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by **Irish_Lass** on Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:32 am

As far as I know that tank is too small for a pleco hun.

by **kizno1** on Sat Aug 28, 2010 3:02 pm

Irish lass is right the tanks to small for any of plec no matter what type. The spiny eel will grown 20+ cm so way to big for a 2.5g. The water quality will be hard to keep clean because of the amount of waste the plec and eel will make. You could replace the plec and eel with some cherry shrimp.

by **silverrabbit** on Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:21 pm

wow your lfs gave you some bad advice with a spiny eel and plec with a betta in such a small tank. TBH I think the eels really need a big home with LOTS of pipework and caves to hide in. When they get bigger they might try and eat smaller fish.

Your water is going cloudy because it probably has too high a bioload for the filter to cope with. The cloudyness is a bacteria bloom.

Hope you manage to rehome the eel and plec Sad

by **Momo** on Sun Aug 29, 2010 2:48 am

pshh the pet shop owners are always saying contradicting things with the internet... what's up with that?? Because i had the new Betta fish, tank together and the guy asked me if i wanted the sucker fish with it.... but i can't do anything now...

by **Irish_Lass** on Sun Aug 29, 2010 8:57 am

You can return the eel and pleco to the pet store. Explain that they were mis-sold etc. They should take them back.

by **kizno1** on Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:52 am

The algae eater is likely to be a common plec
Heres a care sheet on planetcatfish which are one of if not the best place for info on cats
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or it could be a gibby which are quite often sold as commons
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It might not be one ofthem to and could be a smaller type but its still to big and messy for a 2.5G

I dont think its a spiny eel i think it could be a striped peacock eel
Which can get to 30cm long so aslong as the tank. They need a min of 55G IMO
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Take them back to your lfs or try and give/sell them to someone with a bigger tank.

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