White opaque stuff on eye-GSP (Squishy)
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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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Re: White opaque stuff on eye-GSP (Squishy)
Always use Melafix 1st & also with other meds. I hope he gets better soon!
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: White opaque stuff on eye-GSP (Squishy)
UPDATE: 
We finally got a new tank for the GSP's. & we went ahead and started adding salt. SG at 1.002 at the moment.
We found this very neat Fish store, where the employee's are like fish experts! So they recommended I use Triple Sulfa (anti-bacterial) & so far so GOOD!
My sick GSP is already showing improvement, and apparently he had other issues, because his whole body seems to be clearing up to normality. He seems happier, and alot greener:) Cloudy (red eye) is starting to get better as well.... YAAAAAAAAAYYY 
Also, since we just moved the GSP we went ahead and started cleaning out the other tank. (where they ate the fat goldfish).....& as we were cleaning, we found our algae eater.....DEAD. & eaten up as well......so my GSP's were busy in their last days as they said their goodbye's to their tank mates.
(no wonder they wouldn't eat at all today!!!! One fat goldfish & an algae eater over 2 days)........
We finally got a new tank for the GSP's. & we went ahead and started adding salt. SG at 1.002 at the moment.
We found this very neat Fish store, where the employee's are like fish experts! So they recommended I use Triple Sulfa (anti-bacterial) & so far so GOOD!
My sick GSP is already showing improvement, and apparently he had other issues, because his whole body seems to be clearing up to normality. He seems happier, and alot greener:) Cloudy (red eye) is starting to get better as well....
YAAAAAAAAAYYY Also, since we just moved the GSP we went ahead and started cleaning out the other tank. (where they ate the fat goldfish).....& as we were cleaning, we found our algae eater.....DEAD. & eaten up as well......so my GSP's were busy in their last days as they said their goodbye's to their tank mates.
(no wonder they wouldn't eat at all today!!!! One fat goldfish & an algae eater over 2 days)........
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Re: White opaque stuff on eye-GSP (Squishy)
I used to use cheap gold fish as scavenger to eat up the excess food but realise that they produce way too much waste.. So I remove them. if your puffer have a taste for goldfish, pls do not have them as tank mates anymore.. They are fatty and can be hard for them to digest. Good to hear that the little guy is doing well!
I am not a Troll, I am just pissed..!
Re: White opaque stuff on eye-GSP (Squishy)
They look so adorable many people have difficulty believing what monsters they can be 
It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another. We consider those, when the cerebral structure/intellectual faculties most developed, as highest. A bee doubtless would when the instincts were.
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Gongol
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Re: White opaque stuff on eye-GSP (Squishy)
I agree Flutter