I had a GSP for about 5 weeks now. It is very active and it eat anything regularly. I normally feed it with frozen shrimp and pond snails. Lately I changed the gravel to CaribSea Aragonite Aquarium Sand and notice that there is some black long wasted on the sand surface. And my GSP doesn't seem to grow, I feed it once a day. Its body color looks fine but i see there is a small area of its body has some kind of spotted like chicken skin. Is this normal? I dont know if my GSP has Internal Parasites. I was reading the article regarding to III. Internal Parasites: Prevention and Treatment, but I still dont know where to find the right medication for it and I dont know if it really does has internal parasites. I attach few pix! Please give me some advice?
Help! Does my GSP look like he has Internal Parasites?
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Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
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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Help! Does my GSP look like he has Internal Parasites?
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Re: Help! Does my GSP look like he has Internal Parasites?
What size tank? Fresh or saltwater? Get some prazipro from your lfs and soak food in it just in case...
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Re: Help! Does my GSP look like he has Internal Parasites?
brackish water at 1.006. 30 gallons tank. how much prazipro should i use to soak it with the frozen shrimp? And how often and how long do i have to use it?
Is this the prazipro?
http://www.hikariusa.com/solutions/healthaid/prazipro/
Is this the prazipro?
http://www.hikariusa.com/solutions/healthaid/prazipro/
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Re: Help! Does my GSP look like he has Internal Parasites?
Yes that is it. I use just enough to cover it and it has directions on it. I think it's a week
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Re: Help! Does my GSP look like he has Internal Parasites?
so its safe to mix it with the frozen shrimp? As I read the product and instruction, it is suppose to use one (1) teaspoon per 20 gallons of water to be treated. So is that mean I can either mix with the food i feed it or add it into the tank?
Sorry I am little confuse with so many comments and instruction online~
Sorry I am little confuse with so many comments and instruction online~
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Re: Help! Does my GSP look like he has Internal Parasites?
I'd just "salt" the food with the meds & soak for an hour or 2, before feeding.
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