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Re: stars and stripes puffer acting lethargic and sick
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 8:06 am
by theginger
bertie,
thanks for your help, i will get some at petco today. pufferpunk had some thoughts on my water temp, any ideas how to fix this as well? thanks again you folks really are a blessing!
Re: stars and stripes puffer acting lethargic and sick
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 8:41 am
by bertie 83
If room temperature is pushing up the tanks temp a chiller would solve the problem, they are not very expensive
Re: stars and stripes puffer acting lethargic and sick
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 11:53 am
by Pufferpunk
No, I meant PROTEIN skimmer. Is there a sump? If yes, place a large protein skimmer in there. Also, get a 6" clip on fan & blow air across the sump.
Re: stars and stripes puffer acting lethargic and sick
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 2:13 pm
by theginger
i have a large protein skimmer, its a vertex 180 protein skimmer. I will try the fan, i have a personal fan i can put in the sump, ill let you know how it affects the temp. thanks
Re: stars and stripes puffer acting lethargic and sick
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 4:26 pm
by Pufferpunk
It will help a lot!
Re: stars and stripes puffer acting lethargic and sick
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 6:43 pm
by theginger
So, ever since last weekend my stars and stripes puffer stays dark green/black most of the time. I finally figured out what was wrong i think. I had a diamond goby that went missing, and he finally showed up today...dead and basically decomposing in my tank. i immediately removed it from my tank and checked my water parameters and they were:
pH-8.2ppm
Ammonia - 0ppm
Nitrite - 0ppm
Nitrate - 160ppm!!!!! holy cow!!! major spike from 20ppm just a week and a half ago...
salinity - 1.020
So my nitrates have gone through the roof!!! What do i do? I really don't wanna lose my S&S puffer! i immediately did a 20% water change in hopes that would start to bring the nitrates down, but what else should i do? thanks for your help i have never had my nitrates shoot up so fast.
Zach
Re: stars and stripes puffer acting lethargic and sick
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 1:44 am
by Pufferpunk
I'm locking this thread, please no double posting.