Just so you know, the directions on the back of the fish food are completely inaccurate. It overstates how much and how often to feed them seemingly to sell more food. That's right, folks. I've been seriously overfeeding the Nemos. The tank is beyond cloudy and has gone straight into murky.
Earlier this week, I purchased a bottom feeder to hopefully help clean up the tank. The boy and I had just watched The Little Mermaid for the first time, so I was encouraging him to name the new fish either Flounder or Sebastien for something different. Surprisingly (note the sarcasm), we have another Nemo in our family. That makes four fish named Nemo, a dog named Whiskey (WeeWee to little boys), a toddler named Little Man and a lady named Mommy.
The bottom feeder wasn't really working, so I went the next day to the closest Petsmart and found an employee that knew his stuff. Although the internet is probably the best invention on earth (aside from Chocolate and coffee), it can often times provide too much information. I was fearing that I had too much fish for the tank since the Shubunkin Goldfish is kin to the koi and can get quite large. I also read about amonia levels and pH balances and all the stuff that never crossed my mind when we were throwing the ping pong balls that Friday night! All of this was making me fear the death and heaven talk with a 2.5 year old.
It turns out that you are supposed to give about three flakes of food per fish per day... as opposed to the pinch of food per fish two to three times a day. I told you I was seriously overfeeding the fish! So, I cut back on the amount of food, purchased a couple different murky water eliminators, and stocked up on filter inserts. I changed the filter yesterday, and it was disgusting. Then I changed it again today, and it was disgusting. The water is starting to clear, but I'm pretty glad I got a 6-pack of filters!
Hopefully, the water starts clearing soon!
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