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GSP refuse to eat and more

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 5:00 am
by spamer80
Hello. It's the first time I have problem with them. Both puffers refuse to eat, often stays in filter stream, itches on the walls and become way less rounded than before. Anyway, the most of the time their bellies are still white. They seem to breath heavier than usual and sometimes with one ?gill? F8 seems to be ok and feels fine.
1) Salinity is 1.01 by hydrometer. I've used Red Sea salt when this happened with puffers and now I'm switching to Sera because the lack of other salt brands.
2) 200l, 2 GSP's and 1 F8
3) Feeding 1 time per two days with mussels, prawn and krill. Water change was 20% once per week but when the problem appeared I switched to two 20% per week. No products other than salt were used in tank.
4) No changes
5) Only Juwel Bioflow 3.0 internal filter. Waiting for red mangrove germs to arrive to make a phytofilter like in my fw tank.
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Re: GSP refuse to eat and more

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 10:54 am
by Pufferpunk
Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH?
Is it possible the pH of this different brand of salt is different than the other?

Re: GSP refuse to eat and more

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:48 am
by spamer80
Pufferpunk wrote:Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH?
Is it possible the pH of this different brand of salt is different than the other?
Possible fore sure. I don't have sw tests still to measure parameters. Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate should be possible removed with water changes, but how long it will take...

Re: GSP refuse to eat and more

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:35 pm
by Pufferpunk
Your tank is not SW.

Re: GSP refuse to eat and more

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2015 6:15 am
by spamer80
Thank you, it was probably PH drop after salt brand change. Now all puffers still slim but eating good.

Re: GSP refuse to eat and more

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2015 8:03 pm
by hadla
F8 can't live long term with gsps... It is brackish and gsps are salt :)