I only got him yesterday and I just noticed he has white spot on his fins. I am pretty sure its Cryptocaryon irritans as it looks just like the freshwater version.
The tank has been set up a year (was a reef tank till yesterday) and has never housed fish so I don't know how he's got it, he looked fine in the shop?
I was going to try lowering the salt level, has anyone had any experience with this and can hint the best way to do it and for how long. I don't want to use chemicals if I can help it.
Thanks guys, my first marine puffer and my first ever case of ick with a marine fish, never thought to quarintine him in a tank thats never had fish in it.
Dog Faced Puffer with white spots.
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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.
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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.
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.
Dog Faced Puffer with white spots.
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Re: Dog Faced Puffer with white spots.
Not sure if this will help, but we had some issues with ich in our new tanks. Ich Away was cheap and worked really well. Also, raising the salt level and temp a bit helps with ich. However, this worked with our cichlids. I'm not sure about puffers, but raising the water temp and adding salt is well-known to shorten the life cycle of ich so it can be killed in the free-swimming stage.
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Re: Dog Faced Puffer with white spots.
Here's the treatment article by Puffer Queen:
library/hospital/swich/
and one by Bob Fenner:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/ichartmar.htm
@LadyLuck: Adding salt to a marine tank is not an option to treat a Cryptocaryon infestation, but as you noted it helps with the freshwater counterpart Ichthyophthirius multifilis.
library/hospital/swich/
and one by Bob Fenner:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/ichartmar.htm
@LadyLuck: Adding salt to a marine tank is not an option to treat a Cryptocaryon infestation, but as you noted it helps with the freshwater counterpart Ichthyophthirius multifilis.
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Re: Dog Faced Puffer with white spots.
I figured as much. I've been reading about the differences in salt. Our LFS has always told us that aquarium salt is fine, but I'm reading different here. I guess we have everything down-pat for our cichlids, but this brackish tank is a learning experience.
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Re: Dog Faced Puffer with white spots.
How's the puffer? How's the treatment going?
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
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