Finquel Dosage
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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.
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.
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cuteyiddlepuff
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Finquel Dosage
Anyone use this? If so, how do you calculate the dosage? I don't have a gram scale.
PUFFER RULES
Do not take your Puffer out of water (you can kill them)
Change water at least 1x a week
Change water immediately if there is high Ammonia/Nitrite/Nitrate
Monitor water levels (PH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, SG,etc.)
Give your Puffer snails to wear down his/her teeth
Soak dry food with tank water/vitamin water
When buying a Puffer look for one with a fat belly
Do not take your Puffer out of water (you can kill them)
Change water at least 1x a week
Change water immediately if there is high Ammonia/Nitrite/Nitrate
Monitor water levels (PH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, SG,etc.)
Give your Puffer snails to wear down his/her teeth
Soak dry food with tank water/vitamin water
When buying a Puffer look for one with a fat belly
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apachepufferman
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Re: Finquel Dosage
my directions say use 85mg/l or less for pet and tropical fish. 85mg/l is for rapid anesthesia. So if you have small puffers use 50mg/l or less better safe than sorry it will just take longer for them to get knocked out.
the conversions of grams to gallons is multiply the number of mg by .00378.
e.g. 50mg/l =50 x 0.00378 g/gal.
so if you use one gal of water to knock them out it would be 0.189 grams per 1 gallon of water using the 50mg/l calculation I just gave.
You should be able to put all fish in that one gallon at the same time but don't leave them in there for more than 15 minutes. It may take up to 30 min for them to fully come back from them being knocked out so just put them in fresh tank water and be patient for recovery time.
this is just what my directions said. Like i stated earlier if you are nervous use a smaller dose it will just take up to 20 minutes or so for them to get sedated With the smaller dose they may just be less mobile than fully sedated.
the conversions of grams to gallons is multiply the number of mg by .00378.
e.g. 50mg/l =50 x 0.00378 g/gal.
so if you use one gal of water to knock them out it would be 0.189 grams per 1 gallon of water using the 50mg/l calculation I just gave.
You should be able to put all fish in that one gallon at the same time but don't leave them in there for more than 15 minutes. It may take up to 30 min for them to fully come back from them being knocked out so just put them in fresh tank water and be patient for recovery time.
this is just what my directions said. Like i stated earlier if you are nervous use a smaller dose it will just take up to 20 minutes or so for them to get sedated With the smaller dose they may just be less mobile than fully sedated.
adam
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cuteyiddlepuff
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Re: Finquel Dosage
Thanks for the response. Do you use a scale?
PUFFER RULES
Do not take your Puffer out of water (you can kill them)
Change water at least 1x a week
Change water immediately if there is high Ammonia/Nitrite/Nitrate
Monitor water levels (PH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, SG,etc.)
Give your Puffer snails to wear down his/her teeth
Soak dry food with tank water/vitamin water
When buying a Puffer look for one with a fat belly
Do not take your Puffer out of water (you can kill them)
Change water at least 1x a week
Change water immediately if there is high Ammonia/Nitrite/Nitrate
Monitor water levels (PH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, SG,etc.)
Give your Puffer snails to wear down his/her teeth
Soak dry food with tank water/vitamin water
When buying a Puffer look for one with a fat belly
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Re: Finquel Dosage
Do you have any of those tiny spoons that come with some test kits? I used that.
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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apachepufferman
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Re: Finquel Dosage
If your scale is that acurate you can use one. not many scales go to the hundreths. And with the dosages being so small I would look for a spoons like PP said. Or if you have a sweet scale then that should work fine just remeber to zero out the scale with the bowl or cup so that you get an acurate measurement.
adam
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Re: Finquel Dosage
They sell digital scales accurate to the 100ths in certain questionable shops which also sell interesting smoking devices, if you are looking for one locally.
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apachepufferman
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Re: Finquel Dosage
these wouldn't be glass smoking devices would they....Nick wrote:They sell digital scales accurate to the 100ths in certain questionable shops which also sell interesting smoking devices, if you are looking for one locally.
hahahaadam
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Re: Finquel Dosage
Yeah, I had a cute little green one, about 30 years ago...
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"