White fuzz on bottom of tank

I recently rearranged my tank and found baby mollies hiding. We seperated the babies into a breeding box and they are growing and doing fine. But after a week, I have aquired a white fuzz/goo on the top of the gravel. Is this a issue or an inconveinence. Please clue me in My tank is a 50 gallon with 2 powerheads and a Whisper 60 filter

First off... Welcome to the Forum!!!

The white goo is most likely fungus.

It could be caused from overfeeding... Which is really easy to do...

The other cause I can think of is not enough movement of the water at gravel level.

Some people will use a powerhead that will wash over the gravel.

Other people use fish that stir the gravel a lot. I have Cory Cats, and a Goldfish that is constantly picking up and spitting out gravel. Also my team of bristlenose plecos are pretty cool.

Either way, get it out. Vacuum the gravel... Do you have a python type syphoning system for water changes? Don't remove all the gravel and wash it or anything drastic like that, just syphon out the fungus.

Try to get as much as possible...

Grats on the Molly fry!

Welcome to our forum.

Anything that I should put in the water or a treatment of any kind?

Thank you

what fish are in the tank ?

Blue Gourami
Black Mollies
Multiple Tetras
Golden Algae eater
Chinese Algae eater
Other misc Mollies

Replace about 20 or 25 percent of the water every week or so, and use a good water conditioner with the replacement water. My personal favorite is Stress Coat, but lots more good water conditioners are on the market.

The more you read on the site, the more you'll see that most people here are pro water changes, and almost anti meds...

I feel that meds have their place... but...

Most problems with the home aquarium keeper's fish and water result from not enough water changes. And can be corrected by ... Water changes!

LOL!

With all that filtration, you may need to put something over the intakes to avoid sucking up the fry. Some people use a piece of nylon hose.

I used to have that fuzz too and it freaked me out at first, wasn't sure what it was. Now I realise that it's uneaten food. I've also seen it at different fish stores, so it's not really a bad thing, but yeah, you need to get it out. I now vacuum up all the uneaten food, in all my tanks in the morning. It also gives me an opportunity to look around and make sure everything is okay in the tank.
Good luck!

The dreaded white fuzz is pretty reliable evidence of over feeding.

Ichanged food brands from Tetramin to Wardley. The Wardley is not as brightly colored and the fish seem to eat more of it. I have not had the "fuzz" since::

Have you tried any of the frozen foods?

no I haven't

You should try frozen bloodworm, most fish love that!

Or frozen brine shrimp. Just be sure to thaw it well before feeding. Frozen brine shrimp comes in two sizes: baby and adult.

I rinse mine too. I put a cube in a fine strainer and run water over it. I used to throw the cube in without rinsing, but I think it was contributing to a rise in nitrites.

The fish probably let most of the frozen cube sink and decay because it was too cold to eat. I hope they didn't get an ice cream head ache.

No, believe it or not, the puffers would actually bite at the cube, it was like a challenge for them. I only stopped doing it because I think that it raised my nitrites if I didn't rinse.

I usually feed unrinsed Hikari frozen brine shrimp and never have a nitrogen problem. It seems like uneaten food could produce nitrogen compounds.

Well actually, I can't say for sure it was bloodworm cube, but someone on another forum balled me out for putting frozen cubes in my tank saying it would cause me problems, so I stopped doing it.
It could have been that the tank wasn't finished cycling that caused the spike.
The puffers enjoyed biting at the frozen cube and really another person suggested that I do that to help with the ever-growing beak problem that my specific puffer has (South American puffers).

I think we should all go on a fuzzless fish food foray.

Or a fabulous fuzzless fish food foray! (5 "F's"

Or a free, fun, fabulous, fantastic, futuristic, funny, fuzzless fish food factory foray

Now what did I leave out?

wow, you've got it covered with that one!!!

There is a word describing that sort of thing. I think it's alliteration, which sounds a lot more technical than just "silly."

I like that "cootie" word you use alot. When I was a kid that's what we called head lice.

When I was a kid, cooties were invisible like bacteria. People would say, "stay away from that kid; he has cooties." You had to wear lots of heavy clothes in Indiana winters, so quite a few of us kids probably did have cooties. Since I don't know all the fancy words for good and bad bacteria, I just lump everything under the term cootie. It has a certain panache, don't you think?

Indeed I do!