My GSP is running into the tank glass and is blind

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1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.

2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.

3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)

4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.

5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.

We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.

While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.

Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
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Re: My GSP is running into the tank glass and is blind

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Good news. I just did an 8 gallon water change and I got my ammonia down to 0 ppm. That is according to my API test results. My test results are as follows:

High range PH: 7.9
Ammonia: 0 PPM
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0

I have had the temp up to about 85 f while treating the ICK with sea salt. Its been a week into the ICK treatment and I cant see the white spores on his body. I understand that I have to continue the ICK treatment for another week in order to kill off any new parasite life cycles. Thanks again guys for helping me bring my GSP back to health. There's a reason why I call him ''Champion''.
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Re: My GSP is running into the tank glass and is blind

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That's good news, you need to continue to treat for ich for a week after all spots have gone as this is primarily a gill parasite. I made the mistake of stopping treatment too early, the ich came back and I had to put my puff through the stress of treatment again. It's best to make sure it's fully gone.
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Re: My GSP is running into the tank glass and is blind

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titanoboa100 wrote:Good news. I just did an 8 gallon water change and I got my ammonia down to 0 ppm. That is according to my API test results. My test results are as follows:

High range PH: 7.9
Ammonia: 0 PPM
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0

I have had the temp up to about 85 f while treating the ICK with sea salt. Its been a week into the ICK treatment and I cant see the white spores on his body. I understand that I have to continue the ICK treatment for another week in order to kill off any new parasite life cycles. Thanks again guys for helping me bring my GSP back to health. There's a reason why I call him ''Champion''.
Awesome! Keep up those big water changes. Also, when you do those tests, be sure to shake the bottles of liquid up REALLY good. Also, when you do the nitrate test, be sure to wait at least 30 seconds between the two liquids, or else you won't get accurate results.
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Re: My GSP is running into the tank glass and is blind

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How do you start to raise the salinity in the tank ? I know you have to do it gradually .
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titanoboa100 wrote:How do you start to raise the salinity in the tank ? I know you have to do it gradually .
You're tank isn't fully cycled yet, so you can't start adding salt yet really without the risk of knocking everything off. You're going to get a nitrite spike, and then a nitrate spike, and then once everything is down to 0, and your nitrate under 20, then you can worry about adding salt. Your biggest issue right now needs to be getting a bigger tank.
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Re: My GSP is running into the tank glass and is blind

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Time to start a new thread. ;)
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=19348
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...

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