I FOUND MY GSP ON THE CARPET. I NEED 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.
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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Content2Swell
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Re: I FOUND MY GSP ON THE CARPET. I NEED HELP!
.....five hours just lying on the carpet would stress me.....
Job 12:7-10. But ask the animals, and they will teach you; or birds of the air
and they will tell you; or speak to the earth and it will teach you; or let the fish
of the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the
lord has done this. In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all
mankind.
and they will tell you; or speak to the earth and it will teach you; or let the fish
of the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the
lord has done this. In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all
mankind.
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billysgirl4e
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Re: I FOUND MY GSP ON THE CARPET. I NEED HELP!
LOL...nice one, content2swell! Me, too. In fact, I had too lastnite, cause the girl I was babysitting wouldn't let me lay on the couch LOL!
Nas, congrats on your fish doing so well! I'm very happy for you.
::victory dance::
-Jessica
Nas, congrats on your fish doing so well! I'm very happy for you.
::victory dance::-Jessica
Re: I FOUND MY GSP ON THE CARPET. I NEED HELP!
Myaj wrote:In cases like this, I always add Melafix immediately. Not only is it good for skin irritations and wounds, but it seems to help fish that have been under stress quite a bit. I would imagine 5 hours of laying on a carpet would stress any fish!
Glad to hear he's doing well, that's pretty impressive of a recovery.
Thanks, we don't have a lot of melafix here in hong kong, do you know the active ingredients? We have this other medecine products but i'm not sure which one to go with.
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Re: I FOUND MY GSP ON THE CARPET. I NEED HELP!
Active ingredient is Teatree oil but I wouldn't just go pouring that into yur tank.
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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TXgemini
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Re: I FOUND MY GSP ON THE CARPET. I NEED HELP!
A similar thing happened this morning except my green spotted puffer landed on the glass that sits right in the middle of my tank. That part of my tank is what holds 1 side of each of my 2 lights. I don't know how long it had been there, directly under the high output lights, but its skin looked dry & leathery & it's eyes looked black & sunken in (possibly fried). I freaked out & put it in a bowl of the tank water. It started moving slowly, 1 fin at a time. I have an airstone in the bowl but its blind. I was concerned about keeping it in a container away from the tank due to changing water conditions so i poked a bunch of holes in a Tupperware bowl so that it looks like a strainer (smoothing out any ragged holes as best as I could to prevent more wounds), put a thin piece of filter media on the bottom (so it doesn't cut itself when it rests on bottom, & i put the airstone bubbler through the center of the lid as well. It works nicely as a floating quarantine area so it can rest. Are the eyes treatable?
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Re: I FOUND MY GSP ON THE CARPET. I NEED HELP!
I think they might just need to rehydrate. Why not put him in his tank? I think being in a box might be stressful. Treat the tank with Melafix too.
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!"