EEK NOOB mistake!!!

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cobra1713

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Dec 9, 2007
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ok well i just made a mistake and wanted to make sure im doing everything i can to save my little gsp...

i had a gsp that had gravel substrate in a 10 gal (dont start flamming about it being small i know and im in the search for a 30 and money is tight, im getting there) anyway i wanted to go to sand substrate...

well i decided to use play sand after searching through tons of forums it seemed safe to do the change while the puffer was still in the tank, so i took all his decorations out of the tank, did a gravel vac on all of the gravel and removed half of the water...then netted out all the gravel...then took a piece of pvc and slowly added the rinsed play sand (via a funnel and dechlorenated water) into the tank to fill the bottom. then filled the rest of the tank with water, sand clowd had settled in maybe hour and a half. anyway this morning puffer looked really unhappy

i decided to test the water and sure enough it was cyucling again becus i had removed all the bacteria with the gravel...

so i instantly did a 30 % water change and added amquel +, and am continuing to do 1.5 gallon water changes often.

i also put a penquin 200b filter from my established 60 gal community tank on it. (yes i know it is over kill for such a small thank but all my other filter that are established are even bigger lol)

anything better i can be doing for my puffer to help the cycle?
 
what kind of filteration did you have without the big one? skimmer? what kind of puffer is it?


i personally would never do the play sand...to much of a risk, aquarium sand isnt that expensive.
 
just a HOB power filter rated for 15 gallons i think its either tetra or penquin... its a green spotted puffer...i was just thinking of another option...would it be less stressful for the GSP if i put it in a seperation net tank in my community tank until the 10 gallon cycles? the community tank if freshwater but its cycled so whats better?
 
he is 2 in right now, well he is in what i thaught was brackish, i was using awuarium salt like an idiot...so today im going to go get some marine sale and do it right...he loves the play sand i dont think that was the prob...

the reason i did the play sand for the little tank is becus i am thinking about doing it to my larger 60 gall bichir/BP tank and i wanted to see how well it worked on a smaller scale
 
GREEN SPOTTED PUFFERS
 
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