Concerned for my puffer!!

[aaronhtml]

Hi all! So I actually just got my first GSP today. I purchased everything for his tank two days ago and set it all up before letting it cycle from Monday to today. The salinity is 1.007 and the temp is about 79 degrees. I acclimated my puffer very slowly throughout the day today and eventually he was introduced. Everything seemed to be going great!
Now the problems start, the water has become very cloudy since introducing him to the tank and I don’t know why. Since he’s been introduced (since about 5pm today) I’ve only fed him one freeze dried shrimp, and he ate well, he explored the tank all day and I was super stoked that he looked great. However, now he is just floating at the top, letting the current push him around and hardly showing any signs of health. His stomach is white as snow so I don’t know what the problem is. His tank is cloudy and he’s hardly moving!
What do I do????

 

[duanes]

In most cases it takes 6 to 8 weeks to cycle a tank, "not" a couple days, before adding any non-sacrificial fish, unless you used seeded media from an already cycled and working filter.
Cycling a tank is the process of building up a large enough population of beneficial bacteria to use up the ammonia and nitrite waste products the fish gives off.
Cloudiness (a bacterial bloom) is a normal part of a newly set up tank.
But these bacteria may not be the right kind. You need to get a test kit, and test every day. If you see a bump in ammonia you will need to do a significant water change ti dilute it, it is toxic, and after two or so weeks of diluting ammonia , you will start to see spikes in nitrite, you must also dilute that, it is toxic.
You need to do research on the nitrogen cycle i aquariums.

 

[TwoHedWlf]

Hi all! So I actually just got my first GSP today. I purchased everything for his tank two days ago and set it all up before letting it cycle from Monday to today. The salinity is 1.007 and the temp is about 79 degrees. I acclimated my puffer very slowly throughout the day today and eventually he was introduced. Everything seemed to be going great!
Now the problems start, the water has become very cloudy since introducing him to the tank and I don’t know why. Since he’s been introduced (since about 5pm today) I’ve only fed him one freeze dried shrimp, and he ate well, he explored the tank all day and I was super stoked that he looked great. However, now he is just floating at the top, letting the current push him around and hardly showing any signs of health. His stomach is white as snow so I don’t know what the problem is. His tank is cloudy and he’s hardly moving!
What do I do????

GSP are relatively delicate and it sounds like you've put him into an uncycled tank. What's your ammonia, nitrite, nitrate etc?

 

[Supergeorge123]

Change water with seachem prime dosed for the entire tank, not just the water you are replacing. Add a bottle of tetra safe start plus to the aquarium, check to make sure that the container says it is adequate for brackish conditions. This should save him if you act quickly.