Too much water flow?

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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.
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mxnocean
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Too much water flow?

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Hey everyone. I have two GSP's and they both live happily in a 55 gallon tank. I had a tetra filter set up in it which consists of one pick up tube and two filters which is rated for the size of the tank. I have been having issues with the opposite side of the tank getting more dirty than the other side so i decided to get a second filter set up exactly like the one already in it and after it beeing installed i have noticed my puffers are not as active anymore. They just hang out at the bottom in one specific area of the tank. Is this because of possibly too much water flow and the puffers not used to it? Is this bad for them? Ive read and researched that gsp's do like moving wster. Will they gsp's eventually warm up to the water flow in the tank or should i just take out the second filtration unit and deal with a little more clean up or leave it and see if they get more used to it? Thankyou in advance for any responses and ill try to answer any questions the best i can
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Re: Too much water flow?

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I don't think that is a problem. Moving to Hosp forum so you can answer all the Qs in red above,
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...

"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
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Re: Too much water flow?

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Im sorry im still relatively new to this forum. What is hosp? And should i just edit the post with the questions in red answered?
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Posts: 32755
Joined: Tue May 31, 2005 11:06 am
Gender: Female
My Puffers: Filbert, the 12" T lineatus
Punkster, the 4" red T miurus
Mongo, the 4" A modestus
2 T biocellatus
C valentini
C coranata
C papuan
Also kept:
lorteti
DPs
suvattii
burrfish
T niphobles
Location (country): USA, Greenville, SC
Location: Chicago
Contact:

Re: Too much water flow?

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Hospital Forum
You can just add the answers below.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...

"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
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