The Puffer Forum

Mrs. Puff, how is your fish doing? We've been feeding ours meds and he still has a lumpy belly and now is looking pretty emanciated, with the exception of the lumpy belly. How long should it take to for the parasites to pass out? I wonder if the little guy is just constipated. We're going to isolate...

Haven't been able to see his poop, but we're treating the tank with Fluke Tabs (only suitable medicine available at my LFS) and it's the third day now and his belly is still lumpy.

I've posted 2 pics in my user gallery of my GSP's lump. I haven't figured out how to link it in here yet, but it's the only two pics in my gallery right now. Does your fish's lump look like this too, Mrs Puff?

My GSP also has a lump on his left ventral side for over a week now. It's still bulging on that side but the lump seems to have moved more centrally so it just looks like he's full all the time. He seems happy and quite active and jumps for his food, but I wonder if it's just undigested food (seems ...