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New green spotted puffer stringy things on his skin

Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 12:13 pm
by fish1t
I have a new green spotted from petco. After 3 days of him eating ok I started to add some marine salts to gradually get it to a more marine environment. After adding a very small amount of salt (1/2 cup for 10 gallons of instant ocean) I started to see these stringy like things on his belly floating under as he swam. Are these parasites? will general cure fix this? I will try to get a pic if needed but its hard

I expected parasites and ordered general cure and also just want to run it through all my tanks.

The puffer is in the 10 gallon because I expected to have to medicate the fish and didn't want to get my 30gallon dirty and will be moved soon as the meds are done.

Re: New green spotted puffer stringy things on his skin

Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2020 10:31 am
by Pufferpunk
General Cure is garbage. Do you have sand in there? How exactly did you cycle this tank? Do you have a hydrometer? Are you premixing the salt?