Originally, he was in my 125 when I first got him. I figured him being two inches at the time, and my veil tailed tiger oscar being 10 inches, the puffer would leave him alone until I got another tank. That was not the case... poor oscar's fins (he's fine and beautiful now!). The 29 gallon was originally just for guppies and snails, but I had to put him in there until I could pull another tank together.Nuclear_Glitter wrote:First, I am curious. Why was your fahaka in a 29 gallon? Also, why is it in the 65 gallon now, instead of a bigger tank?
I would assume the scratching your fish was doing at first was because of the salt you were adding. Your fahaka is going to need really clean water to get better of course. You should begin addressing the IP issue, order the jungle parasite fizz tabs if you need to, but those are what will helps with the IPs. As already has been suggested to you soak the food with garlic and the IP meds.
Stop feeding the fish krill, and use something else. Krill can cause lockjaw. Order a vitamin supplement such as vitachem and start adding a few drops of that to your treatment food as well. It will help out the puffers immune system. Begin treating with melafix again.
Does the spot seem at all fuzzy, or to be spreading at all?
Do 20% water changes daily, that way the fish is getting clean water and has a better chance of healing.
Salt will cause him to itch? I'd never heard of that.
I don't just feed him krill...I went to many great lengths to make sure he got a ton of variety. Krill was just his seemingly favorite dish. I'll be sure to keep up with the melafix.
In appearance, the spot looks like a scab. No fuzziness or spreading. Here's a super close up I took a bit ago while transferring him back to the 29 for some hardcore quarantine action --- http://i.imgur.com/pyI2x.png
It is convex in shape, if you can't tell from the picture.
I will be sure to do 20% water changes daily, also I'll be working the KH down to 10 as well, since I do have an RO unit.