Internal parasite or being picky?

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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.

1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.

2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.

3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)

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.
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Internal parasite or being picky?

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Hi,

I bought a dwarf puffer fish last Saturday, put it into my 6-gallon tank, With a PH of 7, 0 Ammo.
It is heavy planted(java moss tree, Staurogyne Repens, and Hydrocotyle tripartite)
The tank had been cycled for 3 months with an external canister filter for 10-gallon tank.
A regular 10% water change every 1 week
Also, there are hundreds of pest snail in the tank, but they are tiny.

The fish looks healthy but it won't eat. I began to suspect it has the internal parasite.

Here are some symptoms I can observe:

1. it keeps curling its tail(I know it can be a sign whether it is happy or stress)
2. I can see white fuzzy thing on my moss(but I'm not really sure it is algae or white stringy poop)

Here are the symptoms I haven't observed:

1. Sunken belly
2. Skinny body shape

Here is how I fed it:

I only tried frozen bloodworm and snail for past 3 days:

1. I tried to tie the bloodworm on a fish wire, or to use a baster, and then swing in front of it. It appeared to be attracted by moving items, it touched the food and left.
2. I tried to throw snail in front of it. Nothing happened.
3. I crack a snail in front of it. Nothing happened.

This is how it looks like
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And this is how I fed it:
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Re: Internal parasite or being picky?

Post by Pufferpunk »

Very nice tank! He doesn't look VERY thin. Have you tried live worms? I place them into a cone feeder.
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