My GSP is behaving strangely

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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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Wake
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My GSP is behaving strangely

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Initially, my 1.5" GSP was in a 10-gallon tank. It hadn't been cycled. He was in that tank around 3-4 days. Lot of snail, a guppy, and a plecostomus. I just got a master test kit and the ammonia was 2.0 ppm, nitrite at .25 ppm, and nitrate at 0 ppm. After the water change the ammonia went down to 1.0 ppm.

Wasn't enough, so I placed him into my 30-gallon tank which has been cycling for about 3-4 days now. A dead guppy is in the filter because a heater I am currently using had been heating the water far hotter than the dial suggested, so I dialed that one down.

The 30-gal tank is .50 ammonia ppm, nitrite and nitrate at 0.

At those levels in a 30-gal, that should be alright for now, right, with frequent/obsessive water changes?

The reason I'm posting in this section is that he's been swimming at surface level, and swimming up and down. There's not much else in the tank right now, except a thin layer of rinsed aragonite and 3 black lava rocks.

He's just floating/swimming at the surface. Slightly pointed towards the surface, like he's sipping the air. It's got me worried. I don't know if I put too much Jungle SafeStart and Start Zyme and Tetra SafeStart in. I'm getting so much conflicting information it's not fun at all. I did put about 5 spoonfuls of dissolved marine salt in his tank, too, and I suspected it'd be fine since it's 30 gallons.

I also have a powerhead flowing in this tank, so I don't know if it's tiring him out.
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Re: My GSP is behaving strangely

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Why did you add 3 products???
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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I didn't know, and I haven't found much info posted about it.

There should be a compendium on everything GSP-related. One that's easily found on Google search.
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Punkster, the 4" red T miurus
Mongo, the 4" A modestus
2 T biocellatus
C valentini
C coranata
C papuan
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lorteti
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Re: My GSP is behaving strangely

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i told you in your initial thread, not to add the Jungle products. Please go back & read everything I've posted to you. These multiple threads you are starting are getting confusing.
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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