The Puffer Forum

I added the last half of the live rock to puffy's tank and bunch of different bristle worms started emerging from their holes and spraying some type of white stuff. What is this they are spraying? Is it harmful to puffy? Should I get the rock back out of the tank? I'm going to do a water change. I'm...

Yea I definitely want to try different types of food to see what he will eat. I tell you what though back before he ever got ich he got to where he would go for three or four days without eating. I thought he had lock jaw. Which might be what he had. I'm not sure. I started dipping the freeze dried ...

hospitalinity is the best cure known for ich. I recently went through a heavy ich problem myself and it cured it. I thought for sure I was going to loose my puffer but he is doing better than ever now. Read the sticky and the top of the hospital treatment forum on how to treat ich using hospitalinit...

It's been a while since I have posted here, because being so busy with school and all. I just wanted to let everyone know that the hospitalinity worked great for curing the ich "puffy" had. I finally got the salinity raised back up to where it suppose to be a couple of days ago. I raised i...

mandycat,
Yes I understand now. Thanks again.

I wasn't for sure about doing fresh water dips before. I'v heard from some that it helps and others it don't. Check out this web site.
http://www.petsforum.com/personal/trevo ... neich.html

Mandycat, "I like to use a bit of calcium in the freshwater to bring up the pH to match the salty water. I can do this by eyeballing and I use Kent Calcium Reactor (calcium) BUT... If your tap comes out close please use that. And I mean if your tank is 8.2 and your pH is 7.8, use it. A lot can ...

I only mentioned 1.018, cause this is your main tank & you don't want it to crash. If you had a QT, I would have said to make the SG much lower. Can it still cure it with the SG being this high? I also noticed today that the ich has almost completely left puffy. From what I'v read that is the t...

One way of being a little more certain about the SG is to leave the new water aerating and heated over night, then testing a few times and taking the average if the readings do vary. Then add it to your tank. But deffo raise temp and do FW dips...that way you CAN be sure of the SG. Hope he gets bet...

Pufferpunk wrote:Raise the temp to around 86, lower the SG to around 1.018 & do FW dips on the fish.

Is 1.018 low enough. I'v read if it is not a least lowered down to 1.009 that it wont kill ich. [/quote]

I'v done alot of research about ich over the last couple of days since I'v noticed my spiny puffer with small little white dots all over his body. It looked like grains of salt. Other than having the spots he has been fine, still eating good. Iv been feeding him vitamin supplements with garlic guard...

Thanks for all the help. I checked out all I could at wet web media and seen where it is not so good to use melafix or pimafix with puffers so I stopped using it, and I did some massive water changes to bring my nitrates down. I got them down to under 40 ppm. One more good size water change and I'll...

Thanks for the help. Yes I look into it too much. I'm bad about that with anything I do. I haven't been waiting for what to do. I decided to dose the tank 3 days ago, but have cut back on it since, but I'm going to see how that is for a couple of days and then start dosing the full dosage if it look...

Is it possible that the pimafix and/or melafix can still cure the puffer not using as much as the bottle says? I'm talking about using maybe 4 or 5 tsp. of the pimafix, and work my way up. I'm kind of afraid to put in the recommended dosage now, because of how those snails acted. And it is not about...

Well I dosed the tank with melafix and pimafix, and it killed one of my snails within five minutes, and all the other snails started acting up so I got them out of there. I dosed the tank with 7 tsp. of the melafix and 7 tsp. of the pimafix, and the tank total volume with the sump and all is about 9...