1) pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates are 0 as i do daily water changes and salinity is 1.005 specific gravity or 9 ppt
2) 70 gallon tank, no other inhabitants
3) i feed earthworm, mealworm, krill, shrimps, crabs. I add photosynthetic bacteria and nitrifying bacteria and lactic bacteria every water changes as per the instructions on the bottle. I add fish vitamins too and probiotic bacteria sometimes. I use marine salt and do 20-30% water changes daily (specificly at night as i've read thats when its best for getting rid of ich)
4) None
5) aquarium has been set up a month with fishless cycling with added nitrifying bacteria and photosynthetic bacteria.
I bought a green spotted pufferfish that was kept in freshwater at the store. It was in very bad condition since it has ich, i didnt know it had ich until i put it in the tank. The tank is actually brackish, i heard freshwater ich ( Ichthyophthirius multifiliis) cannot survive in brackish or marine. I've had the gsp for 3 days now, slowly increasing the salinity to brackish. I do not have a water heater as i live in the native enviroment of gsp (the tropics, southeast asia) with temperatures never below 24 celsius and average of 32-33 celcius. I would still purchase a heater if necessary but i'm scared the fish will be killed by the heat. I've read any fish medicine is dangerous for scaleless fish like gsp (including melafix)
Should I just slowly change the brackish to marine to get rid of ich or is there any other suggestions? Thank you.
GSP is infected by freshwater ich!
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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.
Read this before posting!!
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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Re: GSP is infected by freshwater ich!
It would help to transition over to marine. All you would need to do is add cured live rock & raise the SG. In the meantime, use Ich-X.
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