Why Is There So Much Poop In My Tank

I have a 29 gallon aquarium at 75 degrees with 6 neon tetras, 7 albino cories, a small snail, and a dwarf gourami. There is so much poop! It covers all the white substrate and it looks like there is a sprinkled brown layer but it’s poop. I have been spot cleaning everyday with my gravel vac but I end up changing 30% of the water there is so much. What could be causing this? Thanks!

 

Snail pooop a lot. Neon tetra doesn’t. Gourami could, depends on how much you feed. So the question is: how often and much do you feed them?

 

A few things come to mind. Overfeeding, poor water circulation, or if you've got driftwood in there. Any combination would lead to a build up of crud on the sand.

 

Snail pooop a lot. Neon tetra doesn’t. Gourami could, depends on how much you feed. So the question is: how often and much do you feed them?

I feed a pinch of flakes twice a day with 3-4 pea sized bottom feeder wafers at night. I feed bloodworms once weekly. Is this two much? I have a 30 silentstream top fin filter

 

I would say too much of the bottom feeder wafers. I'd be doing two max. You could probably do smaller pinches as well, perhaps do them by half if it's a bigger pinch.

 

What type of snail is it.

 

extra food, fish waste, drift would, and any new plant added to the tank recently that was in a planted dirt tank at your LFS. Those are the first four things that come to mind that could be the cause(s).

 

Not so much a suggestion, but you could also be noticing the poop more because of the light substrate, making it appear like there's more than there really is. Good luck!

 

I would say your feeding too much, fish will live with pretty light feedings. I would clean the bottom up, cut back to flakes once per day and make sure none hit the bottom during that time.

How old is your tank and when was the last time you checked your parameters? if it is indeed food etc would be wise to be sure there isn't an excess of ammonia with the extra waste on the bottom. Assuming everything is cycled properly you should have a decent amount of Nitrates that may need a 20% waterchange or so.

Nothing to worry about, just something to be aware of so you don't wake up to dead fish when it could of been prevented.