Sorry its been awhile.  I had to chnge internet providers and it was about 2 weeks from the time that the first one shut me off until the next could get me up and running.  But I am now good to go.

Not only was there more fish then there should have been but they also didn't take care of the tank.  There was so much rotten food in the bottem of the tank that when we moved it, it turned that water dark green.  So green that you could not see through the water.  There was so many snails.... well over 300.  That was fun....

I went on ahead and set the tank up in my living room.  I didn't try to get all the gross food out of it I thought that we have just moved them 200 miles that I would let them have some rest.  Thinking the filter would clean the most part out and bring the water back to clear.  Yeah that worked like nothing was there.  I left it ike that until the next day and I was worried that they could not breath.  So I used a vac to clean the rocks but they were so bad that it just made the tank water green again.  But this time I have pulled over 100 snails out and there was still way to many to count.

As I stared to clean the rocks and the water was turning green I did the olny thing I could think of.  I was scared that I was going to start losing the fish so I caught them all and put them in a pot.  That was all I had big enough.  

Now what I am going to tell you next is going to give some of you a heartattck but it was the only thing that I could think of.  I emptyed the tank all together.  Took all the water out and then dumped all the rocks out.  Went to the store and got all new stuff for the tank.  Needless to say I now have no more snails.

I took water out of my 10 gal tank to start a fill up on the 29 gal tank.  Then started to fill it up the rest of the way.  Put the fish back in, a new fitler in (just the filter itself not a new system), put in the addative and some salt (just enough for a 10 gal tank we didn't want to kill them) now we are good to go....  so I thought....

2 days after all this has been done the tank was so cloudy that you could not see through it.  This puts us on Easter.  My livingroom smelled like amiona ( I know thats spelled wrong sorry) or cat pee.  Now I have cats but I am very clean so I know thats not what it was. BUT just in case I steam cleaned all my floors.  Well I was right after that I could still smell it.  I go over to the tank and sniffed with the lid off.  MY GOODNESS it was so gross smelling.  So I changed the filter but I wanted to make sure,  I took the the whole filter system and cleaned it out with pinesol.  Then rinsed it VERY well.  Put it all back together and a few hours later still nothing.  So I took the tube part off the fitlter system and sniffed it.  Yeah that was stupid of me.  So I got a pipe cleaner and ran it through with really hot water.  It was sooooo gross in there I can't believe that it ran at all.  I am sure that there were dead fish in there that who knows how long were there.  After that  I put it all back together and yet again a new filter.  Also just to be on the safe side I took over half the water out and filled it back up with clean water.  Yes all this is uncycycled water but I could think of nothing else to do.  I treated the water and put in some more salt ( no more then for a 10 gal tank).  We are now doing good.  The water still smells but not half as bad.  I don't know what else to do to it.  I am sure that I have over stressed them enough.  

It has not been 5 days and I have not done anything to the tank.  And with all that we did to the tank we only lost 2 fish.  One to the fitler and one got stuck in the net and I didn't know.  By the time I saw him it was to late.  So far so good.

In a few more days will clean the rocks but I will only take out about 1/8th of the water.  

Also in the 29 gal tank with all the boys is a hugh algey eater (he is aobut 4 1/2 in long) and a funny looking cat fish thing.  I have no clue what  kind of cat fish it is.  

Females are in a 10 gal tank ( i know thats not good but I have no place else to put them and I don't wnat them with the males I already have to many and heaven knows how many more on the way).  I am working on getting rid of most of them.  I have a few people that want some but they don't have a tank and I want them to cycle the tank first.  One of the people that want them use to breed guppies about 15 years ago and would like to get back into it.  I talk to my little girls school and they said they would call me if they heard anything.  I am also going to call my pet store and see if she will take any.  Right now I will even give them to her for free if she will just tank them.  

Well thats where I am at right now.  Any suguestions would help.  

Thank you for taing the time to read all that I have wrote.