Question, concern really
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Read this before posting!!
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.
Read this before posting!!
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.
Question, concern really
I did a 75% water change yesterday on my 55g BW GSP tank. I let it fully cycle and added my GSP back into the water around 3 a.m. this morning. Well I wake up and my puffer is curled into a ball (still moving its fins) and its belly is almost completely black..so of course I check the water...everything looked as it always does. So then the puffer starts swimming around and looks much better, but I am still concerend because its belly is still almost completely black, any help would be great?
Actually the water I added was warmer around 78 degrees (F). I let him sit in a bag on the water surface for 30 minutes
Nitrate-15ppm
nitrite-0
ammonia-0
ph-6.5
salinity-.0002
He is still curled up in a little ball...
Current temp-76.5 (F)
He isnt twitching, but it does seem like he is gasping a little.
Nitrate-15ppm
nitrite-0
ammonia-0
ph-6.5
salinity-.0002
He is still curled up in a little ball...
Current temp-76.5 (F)
He isnt twitching, but it does seem like he is gasping a little.
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Hi strike!
First of all, what do you mean by "letting it cycle?"... cycling is the process of establishing the biological filter, nothing to do with routine partial water changes.
Secondly, your pH is way low. Are you adding any marine salt at all?
Finally, for salinity, do you mean an S.G. of 0.002?
First of all, what do you mean by "letting it cycle?"... cycling is the process of establishing the biological filter, nothing to do with routine partial water changes.
Secondly, your pH is way low. Are you adding any marine salt at all?
Finally, for salinity, do you mean an S.G. of 0.002?
yes sg0.002PetPirate wrote:Hi strike!
First of all, what do you mean by "letting it cycle?"... cycling is the process of establishing the biological filter, nothing to do with routine partial water changes.
Secondly, your pH is way low. Are you adding any marine salt at all?
Finally, for salinity, do you mean an S.G. of 0.002?
the ph should be above 7, right?
by cycling i meant letting the water and filter run for about 3 hours before putting him back in it.
