Green Spot puffer breathing heavy opn one side
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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.
Green Spot puffer breathing heavy opn one side
Hey again Looks like one of my puffers is breathin heavy on one side of its body other then the other should I be worried or is this normal? and is there something I can do to prevent this?
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Re: Green Spot puffer breathing heavy opn one side
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Re: Green Spot puffer breathing heavy opn one side
do a large water change whilst finding out what your parameters are.. heavy breathing can be a sign of ammonia/nitrite poisoning or can be a sign of lack of oxygen...
a water change will lower the toxins in the water and give us time to check through other possibilities.
a water change will lower the toxins in the water and give us time to check through other possibilities.
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Re: Green Spot puffer breathing heavy opn one side
Thanks for replying I am going out tonight to get a test kit so I will post the numbers tommorow. I have the salt at 1.005 on the hydrometer using instant ocean sea salt and its a 55 gal tank with three green spot puffers That I have had for about five days they are about 1.25 to 1.5 inches long. I am feeding them brine shrimp but I am going to switch it up with something else. I used cycle, Tap water conditioner and waste control when I set up the tank.It had been running for about three weeks before I put the fish in.I also have the heater set at 84.I cant understand why they are only breathing on the one side and heavy it looks. I think it may have been because I over fed not removing the scraps of brine shrimp.Any more info is greatly appreciated. Thanks for all the help.
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Re: Green Spot puffer breathing heavy opn one side
I would lower the temp down to around 79 ish. Do the WC today if you can. Let us know if it helps.
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Re: Green Spot puffer breathing heavy opn one side
I just got back from our local fish store here and it seems I do have a small amount of nitrate in my water. The store told me to hold off on feeding for a day and do 1/4 of a water change again. Is this everything I can do? or is there more I just want them to get better. I also lowered my water level so that the filter run off current splashes to make bubbles so it puts more oxygen in the water.
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Re: Green Spot puffer breathing heavy opn one side
Did you lower the temp?
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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Re: Green Spot puffer breathing heavy opn one side
Yes I lowered it to 79. I think one is on its way out it really looks skinny alot skinnier then the other and it is got its mouth sticking out of water. I was told to stop feeding for one day should I feed him? He looks extremely sick.
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Re: Green Spot puffer breathing heavy opn one side
The thin gsp sounds like it has IP's. Do a search here in the hospital section to find some topics on IP's as they should help you with treating all of them for IP's. I believe jungle clear is one decent brand. Do it asap and keep feeding. Do 50% water changes until your parameters are right. What is the ammonia and nitrite at?
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Re: Green Spot puffer breathing heavy opn one side
Well one died he just didnt seem right from the beggining alot skinnier then the others. The other two I have seem to be doing very well now swimming all over the tank and are not breathing heavy anymore thanks for all the Help.
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Re: Green Spot puffer breathing heavy opn one side
The skinny one no doubt, had internal parasites. You still need to treat the remaining fish. See the article in our Library. Check out the feeding articles too.
What are your persent water parameters?
What are your persent water parameters?
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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