I've had my baby GSP(named Squish) for about a month and I just noticed something about him.
He is still about 1.25'' long but grew quiet a bit since the day I got him. What I'm getting worried is that it seems his skin is getting darker. It used to be bright yellow-green but now it is more like brown-green except small portion of his head and back. Is this normal?
Here is my water parameter:
SG 1.005
Temp 80F
Ammonia 0
Nitrate 5
Nitrite 0
KH 120
pH 7.8
(still working to raise KH and pH)
He was introduced to a newly cycled(w/ FW bio-spira) 30g tank about a week ago. He seems happy and well doing but the color is disturbing me. Oh yeah his belly is snow white.
Discoloration? Color shifting?
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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.
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A baby fish needs food. A 1.25" GSP is an infant. Perhaps daily feeding would be sufficient, but alternate day feefing for a baby is starving the fish. IMHO & IME that is very poor advice and I do not believe ever came from this site. Six days a week minimum is my feeding schedule until the fish is one-halff to two-thirds full size, then I shift to alternate days for the hunter predators. As they near full size. meal size or frequency may be adjusted again, depending on the particular fish and in part on its activity level.
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when a fish is that young, i would feed once per day.
the coloration sounds normal, although a pic would help. if he is darker except on his forehead ( near nasal barbels), that is an inidcation that he is being well taken care of, and that he is happy.
dont be too hard on Raph, RTR. he had kind intentions
the coloration sounds normal, although a pic would help. if he is darker except on his forehead ( near nasal barbels), that is an inidcation that he is being well taken care of, and that he is happy.
dont be too hard on Raph, RTR. he had kind intentions