Hey guys, I don't know if any of you saw my thread about giving my puffer spoiled food. Well about a week ago I didn't know I was giving my puffer spoiled blood worms. He would take the first bite but then left everything alone and this went on for 2-3days before I figured out that the food was spoiled. Well before this incident, my GSP has always been "beefy", but after the incident he has been looking skinny. He eats everyday, but it seems like he needs to eat more before his stomach is bulging. And the next day the stomach is straight like he's starving.
Do you think he got IP because of spoiled food?
Water Param:
PH-8.4
Ammo-Undetectable
Nitrite-0
Nitrates- 10ppm
SG-1.025
Alk-11
Calcium-440
My GSP is skinny
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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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dumpythepuffer
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Re: My GSP is skinny
whenever i feed my DP their little tummys are plump then the next day they are flat again. it just means they are digesting it properly...my GSP eats more and bigger foods so he stays round for about 2-3 days (until the next feeding)
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Re: My GSP is skinny
If the belly is sunken the next day then it could be internal parasites. My Sabahensis could eat 10 prawns and the next day look sunken, now 4 days between feedings and it's not sunken. It would be worth doing a preventative treatment just in case, if it is IP's and it gets too far then there is always the risk of not being able to bring him back from the brink.
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Puffalicious
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Re: My GSP is skinny
Well it's not sunken, but the bottom part is not plump anymore after a day of feeding. It just look straight like he hasn't had food in a week. I guess I'll do my home remedy of making the pumpkin seed milk again to remove the IPHilly wrote:If the belly is sunken the next day then it could be internal parasites. My Sabahensis could eat 10 prawns and the next day look sunken, now 4 days between feedings and it's not sunken. It would be worth doing a preventative treatment just in case, if it is IP's and it gets too far then there is always the risk of not being able to bring him back from the brink.
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Re: My GSP is skinny
If you think it's out of the ordinary and you're feeding the same amounts that you usually were I think in this case its probably to be better safe than sorry in this case.
Hilly