I am a new aquarium owner and I've been doing pretty well until very recently.
I treat my 10gallon tank with Aqua Plus tap water conditioner and Cycle. I've also added a small amount of aquarium salt.
I have a Green Spotted, 3 Mollies & 2 Mono Sabaes'. The Sabaes' seem to be doing fine, but the Mollies have been acting a bit strange today --- hovering near the top of the tank. Ammonia levels were a bit high yesterday and I have treated it with Ammo-Lock since then.
My poor Puffer was on the bottom of the tank with white stuff covering his eyes & area around his eyes. He has not eaten in two days.
I just transferred him to a sterile bucket of water treated with Aqua Plus & do not want to put him back into the tank or add anything else until I know more or less what the problem is.
PLEASE HELP! I DON'T WANT MY PUFFER TO LEAVE US SO QUICKLY!
HELP!! Spotted Green Puffer is sick!
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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.
Way too many fish. It doesn't matter what you put in that tank to make it "right" the tank can't handle it.
Keeping fish in buckets is also not recommended.
IMHO the only thing you can do to fix this problem is get rid of fish, or upgrade to a very large tank, at least 75 gallons. I don't think anything else will work.
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First, stop using Ammo Lock and Cycle. They are a waste of money and will only cause more harm to your tank.
Second, do a big water change, at least 50%. Water changes can help a lot of things and can't hurt.
Third, put your puffer back into the tank. Having him in an uncycled, unheated, unfiltered container is going to kill him real fast.
As has been stated, you have not only too many fish in your tank, but that size of tank isn't good for any of them, not even if they were alone. If at all possible, you should take them all back to the store and get your money back, then buy something more appropriate for a 10g tank.
Second, do a big water change, at least 50%. Water changes can help a lot of things and can't hurt.
Third, put your puffer back into the tank. Having him in an uncycled, unheated, unfiltered container is going to kill him real fast.
As has been stated, you have not only too many fish in your tank, but that size of tank isn't good for any of them, not even if they were alone. If at all possible, you should take them all back to the store and get your money back, then buy something more appropriate for a 10g tank.
Tina
Puffers: Auriglobus silus x1, Tetraodon travancoricus x1, Tetraodon turgidus x1, Tetraodon miurus x1, Tetraodon nigroviridis x2, Tetraodon baileyi x2, Tetraodon lineatus x1, Tetraodon palembangensis x1
Puffers: Auriglobus silus x1, Tetraodon travancoricus x1, Tetraodon turgidus x1, Tetraodon miurus x1, Tetraodon nigroviridis x2, Tetraodon baileyi x2, Tetraodon lineatus x1, Tetraodon palembangensis x1