feeding and water quality

[swomley93]

I fed my catfish hot dogs last night and woke up to a cloudy tank, pera meters are good nitrates are a little high so I did a water change and then I noticed Ithat was still cloudy has anyone had this happen before with specifically hot dogs?

 

[skjl47]

Hello; I never tried hot dogs, but did try raw hamburger once decades ago. After a time there were fat globs in the tank. I guess the meat portion was digested, but the fat apparently did not.

My initial guess is that you have a bacterial bloom and some fine bits of the food or oils.

 

[sayersweb]

Check ammonia levels right away, it is critical to keep ammonia at zero. I'm guessing you are experiencing a mini cycle.

 

[swomley93]

OK I will it's a 55 gallon and I did 2 5 gallon buckets worth of water change so hopefully anything I did wrong was somewhat corrected by that

 

[swomley93]

Thanks for the input

 

[ehh]

I can only imagine the mess they made eating hot dogs.

 

[pops]

feed your cats fish food IMHO, tossing processed meats into your tank is asking for fowl water.

 

[swomley93]

It was only 4 little tips of it

 

[pops]

sorry not looking to offend, but processed meat for human consumption should never inter your tank,
no harm no fowl, listen learned,

 

[Vampire fish]

How long has the tank been setup? If pretty new then I agree that the tank is

experiencing a mini cycle

which will fade in a week or two.