Gill Fluke Treatment for Puffers?
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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.
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.
Gill Fluke Treatment for Puffers?
I need to treat my figure eight for gill flukes but I'm not really sure how to go about it. I know that a lot of medications are not suitable for scaleless fish. Has anyone tried anything with any success? Does anyone have any idea of what I need to do?
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I had success. But at the price of possibly stunting my GSP.
(editted because I don't trust my own advice, lol)
but hey, I still have her, and she's doing very well. I've had Charlotte for a year and 2 months now, and she's been healthy for about 11 months.
I will say that I did use life bearer, and that it did not harm my biological filter.
(editted because I don't trust my own advice, lol)
but hey, I still have her, and she's doing very well. I've had Charlotte for a year and 2 months now, and she's been healthy for about 11 months.
I will say that I did use life bearer, and that it did not harm my biological filter.
When life gives you lemons, make grape juice.
Then sit back and watch as everyone tries to figure out how you did it.
Then sit back and watch as everyone tries to figure out how you did it.
Re: Gill Fluke Treatment for Puffers?
Hey,rangerjoe wrote:I need to treat my figure eight for gill flukes but I'm not really sure how to go about it. I know that a lot of medications are not suitable for scaleless fish. Has anyone tried anything with any success? Does anyone have any idea of what I need to do?
My GSP has been panting and with one gill clamped for a while. Just recently I've been giving my him a saltwater bath once a day and he loves it! His color improves instantly and doesn't appear to be stressed at all after a 1/2 hour. However, since F8's require less salt, I'd suggest you give him a slightly lower SG bath. Seems to be working for me. If he's really bad you can try Coppersafe. Good luck.
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Formalin and water changes work great, not as harsh as gill fluke treatment, but I do trust Aquarium Products gill fluke treatment meds. I would start with the formalin first though. You will need to show some patience with gill flukes. They are persistant and will come back several times before you finally get them knocked out.
onebadpuffer wrote:Formalin and water changes work great, not as harsh as gill fluke treatment, but I do trust Aquarium Products gill fluke treatment meds. I would start with the formalin first though. You will need to show some patience with gill flukes. They are persistant and will come back several times before you finally get them knocked out.
It took me almost a month and a half before I was sure they were gone.
Patience is *so* key.
But once you realize your puffer has been swimming around for a week with no clamped gills, wow, what a feeling. The puffer appreciates it, too, heh.
When life gives you lemons, make grape juice.
Then sit back and watch as everyone tries to figure out how you did it.
Then sit back and watch as everyone tries to figure out how you did it.