Help pink ball things :/

[G.sharpe92]

Hey,
I have been away two days and come back to this pink ball like stuff within a few of my plants. My guppies have started to eat and destroy it. I have had a little Google but am getting mixed messages :/

It's a 80l tropical talk with
3x Amano shrimp
7x Cherry shrimp
2x Assassin snail
1x red dwarf gourami
8 x guppies mixed gender
3x danios

Any help much appreciated
Gavin

 

[Aiken Drum]

Has someone been feeding for you while you have been away?

 

[G.sharpe92]

Yes but nothing more/less then they usually do when I'm away

 

[Aiken Drum]

Looks like mouldy food.

Id check with whoever was feeding, check your water parameters, do a water change and syphon it out.

 

[G.sharpe92]

Sooo, Parameters checked got rid of it all my suspension was food and when I was siphoning I agreed with myself.

..... So while I was away BOTH people home where feeding my fish -_-. Neither one communicated with the other.

Hopefully no long term damage has been done

Thanks all

 

[Aiken Drum]

That looks like more than 2x the food.

Tip for the next trip away. Get a 7 day medicine pill box and put food in before you go to be fed daily. No chance of overfeeding and no chance of 2 people doubling up.

 

[Andy Sager]

That looks like more than 2x the food.

Tip for the next trip away. Get a 7 day medicine pill box and put food in before you go to be fed daily. No chance of overfeeding and no chance of 2 people doubling up.

Great idea. I've done the same only with baggies. I want to control how much food goes into the tank when I'm not the one feeding it.
In the hatchery, with different fish needing different foods, I even taped the baggies to the tanks so there could be no mistakes. You want to take as much guess work out of the equation as you can.

 

[Joe_D]

Just two days? Fish will be fine if not fed for just two days.

What I used to do if I had to leave for a couple of days is I just over fed them slightly before I left and made sure the filter was running properly. The fish were always fine.