Figure 8 not gaining weight
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Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
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4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
Figure 8 not gaining weight
Hey,
This isn't an urgent help sorta thing but I wasn't sure which other topic to but it under so i went for sick fish. Anyways my figure 8 Is acting fine, active, eating normally etc. But no matter how much he eats his stomach never goes fully round, and when it gets somewhat close an hour or 2 later its flat again. To the point where he looks like I haven't fed him for weeks. Although this sounds slightly odd, I've kept puffer fish for years and I'm sure there's somethinn abnormal. Any idea what this could be? Maybe IP?
Tanks size: 28 gallons
Inhabitants: 3 figure 8 puffers, 2 bumble bee gobies
Salinity: 1.005
Ammonia: 0
Nitrites: 0
Nitrates: 0
Ph: 8
All the other fish are eating fine and remain nice and rounded. Any ideas what's wrong with him Or if I'm doing something wrong... Thankyou
This isn't an urgent help sorta thing but I wasn't sure which other topic to but it under so i went for sick fish. Anyways my figure 8 Is acting fine, active, eating normally etc. But no matter how much he eats his stomach never goes fully round, and when it gets somewhat close an hour or 2 later its flat again. To the point where he looks like I haven't fed him for weeks. Although this sounds slightly odd, I've kept puffer fish for years and I'm sure there's somethinn abnormal. Any idea what this could be? Maybe IP?
Tanks size: 28 gallons
Inhabitants: 3 figure 8 puffers, 2 bumble bee gobies
Salinity: 1.005
Ammonia: 0
Nitrites: 0
Nitrates: 0
Ph: 8
All the other fish are eating fine and remain nice and rounded. Any ideas what's wrong with him Or if I'm doing something wrong... Thankyou
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Re: Figure 8 not gaining weight
Sounds like it is internal parasites.
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Re: Figure 8 not gaining weight
Give him a worming dose and see if it changes
Re: Figure 8 not gaining weight
Do you have any IP treatments you recommend? I'm in England and all the ones online are from America and cost £50+ to ship here which I can't really afford
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Re: Figure 8 not gaining weight
Prazi or Metro. Have you checked Ebay?
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
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Re: Figure 8 not gaining weight
I picked up metronidazole on ebay delivered to Ireland for about 15euro recently.
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Re: Figure 8 not gaining weight
Alternatively seek a praziquental based dog wormer from a vet. I have two dogs and simply pop up to my regular vet to pick up a wormer, recently I was up there with a sick dog and discssed my puffer fish. I ended up leaving with 50mg of praziqental and some syringes for dosing for injecting food
Re: Figure 8 not gaining weight
So should the prazi be for any animals Eg. A liquid treatment for dogs ? (:
The only thing I've found so far is water life octozin which i don't think is what I want. Aha I think I must be being extremely stupid sorry
The only thing I've found so far is water life octozin which i don't think is what I want. Aha I think I must be being extremely stupid sorry
Re: Figure 8 not gaining weight
I've found a product called 'hikari prazipro
For pretty reasonable, would this work? I just wanna make sure I don't buy something and realise it's
Not going to help my fish
Thankyou !
For pretty reasonable, would this work? I just wanna make sure I don't buy something and realise it's
Not going to help my fish
Thankyou !
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Re: Figure 8 not gaining weight
If it is an anti parasite aquarium product it should be fine. Sounds like it is though.
Re: Figure 8 not gaining weight
Yeah it's especially designed for fish, it says its applied directly to the water and treats : fluke, tapeworms, flatworms and tubellerians. So would that treat my fish's IP? (:
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Re: Figure 8 not gaining weight
Yes it should work. I assume the main ingredient is praziquantel, based on the name. Make a solution with it to soak the fish's food in before feeding.
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Re: Figure 8 not gaining weight
When a fish is not eating at all doesing the water is about all you can do, its not particularly effective as freshwater fish don't drink at all. As Kass says soak some food in it and feed that to your fishck9 wrote:Yeah it's especially designed for fish, it says its applied directly to the water and treats : fluke, tapeworms, flatworms and tubellerians. So would that treat my fish's IP? (:
Re: Figure 8 not gaining weight
Alrighty Thankyou (: so ive ordered it. It says it's for fluke though? However the main ingredient is prazi so im hoping if I can get him to eat the food soaked in the prazi it should be effective against IP's?
Re: Figure 8 not gaining weight
Hey,
I've dosed twice over the past few days. He seems to have be eaton less now which i think is good because before he would just try and eat non stop. He was passing 2 poos at once today (never seen this before), one was dark red which im assuming is because he has blood worms yesterday. The other is pale and odd, I've tried to take a picture.
Is this the parasite passing? I have literally no idea
Alternatively this could just be a standard poo which would be embarrassing
I've dosed twice over the past few days. He seems to have be eaton less now which i think is good because before he would just try and eat non stop. He was passing 2 poos at once today (never seen this before), one was dark red which im assuming is because he has blood worms yesterday. The other is pale and odd, I've tried to take a picture.
Is this the parasite passing? I have literally no idea
Alternatively this could just be a standard poo which would be embarrassing
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