GSP not green, dark brown
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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.
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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DJBriteLite
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Re: GSP not green, dark brown
what i mixed marine salt in a cup of water and let it dissolve then poured in into a tank?, my tank just finshed cycling.
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Re: GSP not green, dark brown
Move him to the 45g with all the substrate, decor & filter please. No salt yet.
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!"
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DJBriteLite
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Re: GSP not green, dark brown
well from other threads, im pretty sure its nitrite poisoning, i used the test strips which im pretty sure is wrong, and its to late to buy a kit. the test strips told me everything was fine
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Re: GSP not green, dark brown
What does this have to do with upgrading your puffer right now?
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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DJBriteLite
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Re: GSP not green, dark brown
Pufferpunk wrote:What does this have to do with upgrading your puffer right now?
well my last post was as far of now, i dont have substrate or filter right now, so i cant setup the new tank. so in the meantime what do i do now with gsp? do a WC.
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Re: GSP not green, dark brown
Yes, lots of them & large ones!
What size tank is he in now?
What size tank is he in now?
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!"
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Re: GSP not green, dark brown
DJBriteLite wrote:i have had him for 4 weeks now, in a ten gallon,
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Re: GSP not green, dark brown
i did rinse all the brown gunk off the filter pad and put it back on last night, think that messed the tank up?
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Re: GSP not green, dark brown
I do that all the time but my tank's cycled. I still think you should move the fish to the bigger tank right now. Use the little amount of substrate decor you have & the filter. Still dilutes the waste in there better than 10g.
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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DJBriteLite
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Re: GSP not green, dark brown
he didnt make it...
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Re: GSP not green, dark brown
Sorry to hear that. 
This is why it's so important to cycle a tank before you place a puffer in it.
This is why it's so important to cycle a tank before you place a puffer in it.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: GSP not green, dark brown
If you have city water its best to do this when you do a water change and rinse it in the old tank water.DJBriteLite wrote:i did rinse all the brown gunk off the filter pad and put it back on last night, think that messed the tank up?
Sorry he didnt make it. But you atleast learned from it and i hope when you get the larger tank up and running you will try again. Make sure the tank is fully cycled so just take your time and dont rush anything.
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Re: GSP not green, dark brown
will that dr tims work for the cycle?
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Re: GSP not green, dark brown
Only if you add the fish at the same time. Since you already started a cycle, I'd keep adding ammonia (as per the fishless cycling article), to finish the cycle.
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: GSP not green, dark brown
well i still got my 3 ghost shrimp, crab, and dwarf frog, and they all seem fine?