Perhaps one or more of you can give me some insight on this.
I housed my GSPs with figure eights since I have had them, about a year maybe a little less. I recently split them up so I could raise the salinity for my spotted friends. They always played together and swam circles around eachother up and down the glass. Since I have separated the two GSPs from their figure eight friends, (two weeks?) they do not hardly ever play, I have only seen them come out of hiding once or twice, and that is after I turn out the light. Their only other tankmate is a green scat. Any ideas as to their change in behavior and habits? The scat does not seem to be showing any aggression towards either of them so I do not think that is the problem. Their color is fine and all params are better than ever since the 8s moved out. am-0 ni-trace na-trace PH 7.8 SG 1.007 and rising. The only thing I have changed is the SG, which I have been doing very slowly so as not to shock my fishies. Their color is fine usually, sometimes I will catch them with a little gray around their lower jaw, but other than that, no signs of problems. I just did a water change and there was no change in their behavior. Any ideas?
Change in behavior
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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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HRPuffersnStuff
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You said there was a trace of nitrIte? That needs to be zero, as I'm sure you know. Up your water changes and monitor it. What were the nitrIte levels like before the swap-over?
Did you move over some of the filter media with the gsps?
It's poss that they could be a bit confused by the move and the abscence of the F8s, if they'd got along quite well, but I'd make the NO2 readings a priority for now, and see how they go.
Pami.
Did you move over some of the filter media with the gsps?
It's poss that they could be a bit confused by the move and the abscence of the F8s, if they'd got along quite well, but I'd make the NO2 readings a priority for now, and see how they go.
Pami.
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HRPuffersnStuff
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I say trace because I think the color was different than the color chart, (sometimes I can't really tell?) I test at least every three days and all levels were up, hence the move of the other fish. The GSPs did not move from the tank, the figure eights were moved to a new, cycled 55 gallon. They are showing no change in behavior.