GSP with big chunk of flesh missing
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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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GSP with big chunk of flesh missing
I have three f8s and one gsp in a 50l tank. The gsp is missing a big chunk of flesh. I've put a barrier in between the GSP and the F8s. I don't know what to do.
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Re: GSP with big chunk of flesh missing
You are constantly going to have BIG problems in that tank. There's no room for them to establish territories & will constantly be fighting. Add Melafix to heal the wound.
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 with big chunk of flesh missing
+1Pufferpunk wrote:You are constantly going to have BIG problems in that tank. There's no room for them to establish territories & will constantly be fighting. Add Melafix to heal the wound.
your tank is terribly overstocked, which will result in water quality issues also
a 50l tank isn't big enough for any one of those fish, let alone all three
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Re: GSP with big chunk of flesh missing
You're preaching to the converted. I'm already answering ads for bigger tanks on Craigslist. They've seriously ripped the little guy a new one. I've got him in a jug of the tank water at the moment with some substrate, a heater and a desk fan blowing on it to disturb the surface, hopefully oxygenating the water. Gonna check the water quality and do a few changes throughout the day tomorrow as well as buying some Melafix (providing he hasn't dropped dead). Gonna call the culprit LFS and complain too, not that that will help things.
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Re: GSP with big chunk of flesh missing
That's only going to make him worse. He's living in his own waste. He was better off with a divider & filtration. How are the parameters in that tank, BTW? Are you doing daily WC on there?
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Re: GSP with big chunk of flesh missing
On the tank. ammonia 2.0, still. I'm hopefully getting a 240L tank tommorow. That, I can fishless cycle and then transfer the puffers to.Pufferpunk wrote:That's only going to make him worse. He's living in his own waste. He was better off with a divider & filtration. How are the parameters in that tank, BTW? Are you doing daily WC on there?
Are you sure? Even if i do a few water changes on the jug tommorow? The issues being that the f8s could easily jump the divide and also that the divider means that the rest of the tank is getting very poor filtration.
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Re: GSP with big chunk of flesh missing
I'm afraid the poor fella may be doomed.
Don't wait to fishless cycle.
library/water-filtration/emergencycycle/
Don't wait to fishless cycle.
library/water-filtration/emergencycycle/
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Re: GSP with big chunk of flesh missing
Probably. It's impressive how well he's doing, though, considering the injury.
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Re: GSP with big chunk of flesh missing
I had to mercy kill him. He just had his fins wiggling with his face in the substrate all day. He was almost completely non-responsive and his gills were rapid and very open. So I took him out of the water. I couldn't bring myself to stomp him but it didn't take long for him to go anyway. I don't fancy doing that again any time soon.
On a much, much brighter side i have a 200(ish) liter tank for my three f-8s who seem to be getting on fine. I have all the necessary bits. It's now just a matter of switching the tanks which I have a plan for.
On a much, much brighter side i have a 200(ish) liter tank for my three f-8s who seem to be getting on fine. I have all the necessary bits. It's now just a matter of switching the tanks which I have a plan for.
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Re: GSP with big chunk of flesh missing
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!"