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I have a pair of GSP.

Water Parameters are Am = 0 Nitrite = 0 Nitrate = 5~10

Sg = 1.023

Recent changes = added a protien skimmer

Also added an anemone (long tent) which recently managed to get caught in the filter intake.

Also seen a cyano bloom recently. been using a baster to suck it off the rocks.

One of the two GSP looks just fine, the other one has a bright white belly, but his sides are all bleached out. spots are getting light grey and sides are very dull green.

Thanks for the help!

I would get that anemone out ASAP!!! Puffers and anemones do not mix. whether they kill the anemone, or visa veras, or both!

agreed. Anemones and puffers do not mix. Your nitrates are too high for an anemone. It's all going to end up a disaster. If the nem dies it can wipe out your tank with the resulting ammonia spike.

Please take it back.

Your puff could have already been stung by it, causing the stress and lack of colour...

If the anemone got caught in the filter and managed to be torn up and distributed throughout the tank it will sting the mess out of anything it gets into contact with.

kk.


Also, the bleached one appears to have an enlarged anus.

kk... means? .. OK? as in you'll take it back? I hope so.

Have you seen the puffer poo lately? It may be constipated.. Try live dapnia to loosen it up, or any greens... something like nori, see if you can get them to eat that.

My GSP and Ceylon now eat nori, but only because they saw the others eating it and got jealous. I never got them to eat it when they were in brackish on their own... but worth a go anyway.

Yes it means ok, I hit the wrong key.

Also, as to the poo, I have a small cleaning crew in my tank, which removes a majority of the poo... added epsom salt, appears to have better coloration.


Could the addition of the skimmer (additional noise) have been a factor in its stress, the color is coming back (about 90% of where it was) Also, the anem is moved, and is recuperating well.

I suspect there was brushing against or taste testing the anemone.

Yea, i am assuming that was the case as well.

I am betting that when I fed it, the nem took a piece of the food, and he didn't think that the new guy should eat his food.

All is well now. Nem is no longer in with him.

good news all round then.