Help My GSP PLZ!
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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.
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.
Re: Help My GSP PLZ!
poor lil puffer
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Yes, poor little guy. Is he doing any better?
70 degrees is definately too cool.. that slows down their metabolism, which would explain why he's not moving too much, darkened his colors. Probably not eating much either.
Your tank probably isn't cycled either, so there's likely ammonia and nitrite poisoning going on. Which is why you need to find out those amounts ASAP, so you know how bad it is and what to do to help.
The white dots might be ich, or they might be spines.. puffers have small, white spines all over their bodies that you have to look close to see. If they look like little grains of salt, then it probably is ich.
Puffers are very sensitve to medications, so its never a good idea to just drop meds in there without knowing what you are doing.
Best thing you can do is daily water changes, and try to answer all the questions listed in the red box at the top of the page. If you don't have your own test kit, take some water from his tank to a good local store and have them test it. Get actual numbers, don't let them tell you "its fine".
70 degrees is definately too cool.. that slows down their metabolism, which would explain why he's not moving too much, darkened his colors. Probably not eating much either.
Your tank probably isn't cycled either, so there's likely ammonia and nitrite poisoning going on. Which is why you need to find out those amounts ASAP, so you know how bad it is and what to do to help.
The white dots might be ich, or they might be spines.. puffers have small, white spines all over their bodies that you have to look close to see. If they look like little grains of salt, then it probably is ich.
Puffers are very sensitve to medications, so its never a good idea to just drop meds in there without knowing what you are doing.
Best thing you can do is daily water changes, and try to answer all the questions listed in the red box at the top of the page. If you don't have your own test kit, take some water from his tank to a good local store and have them test it. Get actual numbers, don't let them tell you "its fine".
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Bud, high high chance you lookin at whitspot. Dont overlook this, it sometime kill fast.
Most likely your water parameter is bad, casuing stress to the GSP, leading to infection of ICH (which is AWLAYS SOMEHOW PRESENT. DANG). Reduce stress on the fish!, HUGE WC. Heating the water up would speed up the process of killing those parasite. It all in the library =)
Hey, guys out there,I need consultation! I was wondering, treating ich in brackish water, is it diff from fresh and marine? I mean brackish's in the middle, the ich parasite might still survive the sub optimal condition. Even lowerin / raising the SG slowly (giving puffers to adapt) might have chances for ICH to survive too.[the hyposalinity for marine, and aquarium salt for fresh].
Does using the dipping method with drastic difference in SG prove more effective??
Most likely your water parameter is bad, casuing stress to the GSP, leading to infection of ICH (which is AWLAYS SOMEHOW PRESENT. DANG). Reduce stress on the fish!, HUGE WC. Heating the water up would speed up the process of killing those parasite. It all in the library =)
Hey, guys out there,I need consultation! I was wondering, treating ich in brackish water, is it diff from fresh and marine? I mean brackish's in the middle, the ich parasite might still survive the sub optimal condition. Even lowerin / raising the SG slowly (giving puffers to adapt) might have chances for ICH to survive too.[the hyposalinity for marine, and aquarium salt for fresh].
Does using the dipping method with drastic difference in SG prove more effective??
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Re: Help My GSP PLZ!
You should start a new topic on this so your questions get answered more quickly.KIONG wrote:Bud, high high chance you lookin at whitspot. Dont overlook this, it sometime kill fast.
Most likely your water parameter is bad, casuing stress to the GSP, leading to infection of ICH (which is AWLAYS SOMEHOW PRESENT. DANG). Reduce stress on the fish!, HUGE WC. Heating the water up would speed up the process of killing those parasite. It all in the library =)
Hey, guys out there,I need consultation! I was wondering, treating ich in brackish water, is it diff from fresh and marine? I mean brackish's in the middle, the ich parasite might still survive the sub optimal condition. Even lowerin / raising the SG slowly (giving puffers to adapt) might have chances for ICH to survive too.[the hyposalinity for marine, and aquarium salt for fresh].
Does using the dipping method with drastic difference in SG prove more effective??
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Re: Help My GSP PLZ!
haha. point taken.
Chino, you like clownfishes?? hHA, this is like the 2nd display pic you had.
Chino, you like clownfishes?? hHA, this is like the 2nd display pic you had.
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Re: Help My GSP PLZ!
Are you breeding the B&W ocellarus? They can make you a pretty $$$!
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
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Yes, those are the ones I am doing right now. I am going to be selling to LFS around the coast here and possibly start shipping wholesale to other places across the states. It's my new full-time job. 
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Re: Help My GSP PLZ!
They go for $50 ea, at my LFS.
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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That was the price I was looking at. I might go cheaper if I can get people buying them at wholesale.
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Re: Help My GSP PLZ!
Now he is doing much better the white spot is gone which caused by ich and i already raised the temperature to 78-80, but now there is something weird happened today his tail always at one side and not straight ><.
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Re: Help My GSP PLZ!
Your water temperature definately could have contributed to the ich and must be raised to 78 degrees immediately. Treat with medication, as well as try garlic extract that can be purchased at local fish store. You may also want to check ph to be sure it is 8.2, ammonia is 0, nitrite is 0, nitrate less than 40ppm and salinity 1.022.
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I would not suggest using meds for treaing ich. How is he swimming now, is he upright?
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 would not suggfest using meds for treaing ich. How is he swimming now, is he upright?
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
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Re: Help My GSP PLZ!
He is swimming normally but today his eyes show sign of little white spot maybe caused by baterica infection?