The Puffer Forum

The ick is gone the white worms are gone but they black blotches on the belly are still there and he only eats in the morn i am doing water changes everyday to keep ammonia and nitrites at 0 adding more and more salt still the hydrometer reads nothing but there is salt laying on everything like a th...

I follwed the diretions but only put in 1 and a half teaspoons as i had been trying to treat him with piperazine i dont want to over med him i stopped the piperazine the day before yesterday

Sucking like cray to get the beggers out this is what i was able to get and the ingrediants .jungle parasite guard====sodium chloride, metronidazole, acriflavin. the pet shop gave me the entire bottle cuase they said they dont want any cust walking away unsatisfied... it says to treat 1 teaspoon for...

I have a new que tonight i checked on my puffy who seems to be doing a bit better today even though he stil has an inflated gill and mouth is always open but i have feed him krill soaked in the piperazine it equaled out to be 1 drop of med to each teaspoon of food and today when i looked in the tank...

I have been calling vets all morning trying to find out how much piperazine to use in the food while he did not know the answer to this and said it would cause nerve damage he told me that i should use copper to resolve the ick issue the puffer is still having. This poor lil puffer has got life bad ...

this what i know from other articals it says to treat 10g of food with 25mg of medication. 10g = 15 teaspoons of food wich is an entire bottle. 5ml = 1 teaspoon of the medacation in 5ml of meds also = 250mg of meds 20 drops of the meds = 1 ml I only want to treat 1 teaspoon at a time i only have one...

I actually read it here that you can treat with piperazine this is what tje artical says at the top of this page.... Piperazine (PI-per-a-zeen) is a systemic Anthelmintic ( ant-hel-MIN-tiks), which are used to treat worm infestations. Piperazine specifically treats common roundworms (ascariasis) and...

please read what i found Treatment for internal worms must be administered to a fish that is eating. Live foods are best, as this allows "gut loading," which is the practice of feeding live foods additional vitamins or medicines just prior to feeding. If live foods are unavailable, the nex...

related to my previous post can you use this.. In the thread piperazine is on there and it says you can not get it in liquid form in the U.S. but I did from walmart it sasy for cats and kittens is this useable?

I am in mo i was reading the artical were you could treat them with pig dewormer not that i have any of that but also a was reading an artical and cant remeber where but it said you could give them cat and dog wormer too is that true i do have that but would not think of it without gettign the corre...

none of the loal stores have any internal parasite remover the ones that do will not have it for atleast another 2 weeks what can i do now read the threads but i dont understand please help me with what i can use and doses he would take it now he has started eating again with a huge hunger keeps wan...

I just dont know what to do. He is worse today than yesterday I think he might have internal parasites it would explain the rings and blotches on his belly after the 90% water change last night his gills went back to normal bt he just lays there still covered in white spots still wont eat should i t...

are you able to see the black blotches on his belly? what can i use to make the pics better

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