Hey guys. I just got a new F8 puffer a couple days ago. As soon as I put him in my tank I noticed something was wrong. In all the pictures I see they have a tail on the bottom. Mine has what looks like a round lump instead. I assumed this was just a bad case of fin nipping, but now I am not so sure. All the skin around it looks almost like it is dead (kind of furry almost). He seems to be displaying normal puffer actions in spite of his injury. He is eating as much as I give him and is always swimming around. I can't figure out how to get a good picture yet but if I am able to I will post it right away. If anybody has any idea what is wrong, I'd be willing to try almost anything.
My water parameters are:
temp - 78
nitrites and ammonia - 0
nitrates - 10-15
salinity 1.001 after 20% water change yesterday
F8 Problem
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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.
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.
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.
Re: F8 Problem
I'm going to go out tomorrow and get melafix and primafix to use. Hopefully this works.
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Re: F8 Problem
here is some pics on what fin rot looks like. you will want to treat it fast and right away. it could kill your fish. if just the fins rot then they will grow back
http://www.fishdeals.com/fish_diseases/ ... finrot.gif
http://www.fishbase.org/images/thumbnai ... nRotD7.jpg
unfortunatly thats the only good pics i could find.
niether pic is a puffer however the condition is the same regardless
here are some ideas to say it may be fin rot:
-the tips of the fin are white, look almost fuzzy
-sometimes can make out small bones sticking out past the skin of the fin
-can happen on caudal, dorsal, anal, pelvic, and pectoral fins. http://www.biologycorner.com/resources/fish_fins.gif
-once it reaches the body it can resault in fish death
-fins may appear red or irritated
-fins will grow back with proper treatment
hope this helps
http://www.fishdeals.com/fish_diseases/ ... finrot.gif
http://www.fishbase.org/images/thumbnai ... nRotD7.jpg
unfortunatly thats the only good pics i could find.
niether pic is a puffer however the condition is the same regardless
here are some ideas to say it may be fin rot:
-the tips of the fin are white, look almost fuzzy
-sometimes can make out small bones sticking out past the skin of the fin
-can happen on caudal, dorsal, anal, pelvic, and pectoral fins. http://www.biologycorner.com/resources/fish_fins.gif
-once it reaches the body it can resault in fish death
-fins may appear red or irritated
-fins will grow back with proper treatment
hope this helps