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its not as difficult as it seems, and actually, it can ned up with you keeping marines... it did with me anyways.

It doesnt need to be precise.. just use a good quality marine salt, and get yourself a refractometer off fleabay for £20... that is the best way of measuring the salinity of you water...

then just put him across in fresh... and after a week or so of settling bump the tank up to 0.002...

leave the plants out as they will just rot in the rising salt....

use the time whilst you are waiting week by week to research marine and you can (if you want) slowly build the tank up to full marine and get his some marine fish buddies...

that what i did, and many others have done. My GSP is in full marine and has previously lived with clownfish, drawf angels, valentinis... only reason he now doesnt is because i keep reef tanks, so he now has his own tank again.

If going marine (slowly) seems to much of a jump, just fill the tank with loads of interesting rocks and possibly fake plants and keep bumping the salt week by week at 0.002 (its easy, honest) until he is up around 1.018 ish..

When you had him under sedation, did you attempt to close his mouth at all?

Pufferpunk wrote:When you had him under sedation, did you attempt to close his mouth at all?

My other half asked me that too! No, I didn't. But he was def. trying to bite me.

This fishy will be the death of me! I swear now that he can see the new tank at the opposite end of the room, he is getting poorly! As always, its his mouth. It seems to be white & furry looking inside & around the teeth?

Sounds like a fungus.

What are you adding to the tank right now as far as meds?

Not adding anything at the moment -did 7 day course Melafix (after his teeth were done & for his abscess) then did water change. Actually, the white stuff has gone again - I think it may be food that gets caught & cos his teeth/mouth aren't great, he can't dislodge it.
Can't wait to get him in the new tank tho (260 lit), altho, not going to rush it!