I have no idea of what it could be.
Ph: 7,2
Carbonate H: 6°d
Gh: 12
No2: 0
No3:10 mg/l
he's all alone in a 40 litres tank.
He ate only a little shrimp in two days.
I hope you can help me..sorry for my poor english.
help :(
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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.
help :(
hello, i'm new..I have a gsp since a couple of day..it seemed to be alright until I saw this thing coming out little by little from his gill:
I have no idea of what it could be.
Ph: 7,2
Carbonate H: 6°d
Gh: 12
No2: 0
No3:10 mg/l
he's all alone in a 40 litres tank.
He ate only a little shrimp in two days.
I hope you can help me..sorry for my poor english.
I have no idea of what it could be.
Ph: 7,2
Carbonate H: 6°d
Gh: 12
No2: 0
No3:10 mg/l
he's all alone in a 40 litres tank.
He ate only a little shrimp in two days.
I hope you can help me..sorry for my poor english.
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Re: help :(
That looks like it might be inflamed damaged gill tissue, but it's hard to tell from those pictures. Puffers can be hard to get good shots of. Many things can cause irritated gills, including ammonia - is your tank showing any? How was the tank cycled, and how long has it been running for? I didn't see a report on that in your overview. How large is he? These are fish that require brackish conditions, a mixture of sea water and fresh, if he his more than about an inch and a half long, brackish water will be needed for his long term health. Check out this article for more information about green spotted puffers:
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/ug. ... roviridis/
That page includes recommended diet and other factors.
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/ug. ... roviridis/
That page includes recommended diet and other factors.
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Re: help :(
Hello, it looks like gill damage to me also. how is his behavior and coloring?
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Re: help :(
Where are you from?
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!"
Re: help :(
he's of a brilliant yellow, and his belly is white..his eyes are of a deep blue.
Sometimes he moves only one of the lateral fins and keep the other fixed to his body.
yesterday he stopped to move both and was on the bottom coiled up..then the man who sold me the puffer told me to put three or four spoons of salt in the water and the fish started to swim quite normally again.
Then he started to rub himself against everything.
according to some articles I read he seems to have worms or parasites, but I'm not sure.
I know pictures are bad and i cant take better ones
I kept the acquarium empty for two weeks before introducing the puffer,as the shopper told me I put in the water everyday the bioactivator(when the acquarium was empty) and when I change the water I put the Acqua-vit.
I'm from rome.
Sometimes he moves only one of the lateral fins and keep the other fixed to his body.
yesterday he stopped to move both and was on the bottom coiled up..then the man who sold me the puffer told me to put three or four spoons of salt in the water and the fish started to swim quite normally again.
Then he started to rub himself against everything.
according to some articles I read he seems to have worms or parasites, but I'm not sure.
I know pictures are bad and i cant take better ones
I kept the acquarium empty for two weeks before introducing the puffer,as the shopper told me I put in the water everyday the bioactivator(when the acquarium was empty) and when I change the water I put the Acqua-vit.
I'm from rome.
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Re: help :(
Look at the Internal Parsite article in our Library & see if you can get one of those meds for him. You might have to ask a vet. If you add salt to his water, be sure it's marine salt & use a hydrometer to measure it.
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!"