Atlantic sharp nose HELP!!!
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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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Re: Atlantic sharp nose HELP!!!
Good Luck. Your puff has a good home.
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Re: Atlantic sharp nose HELP!!!
Please do a search here on nematodes. I want you to be totally aware, if you do not surgically remove the dead worms, the fish will die from the rotting carcasses. Many folks have left the worms in there & the fish have live many years (seperated from other fish).
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!"
Re: Atlantic sharp nose HELP!!!
so your recommending not to do anything about it then pufferpunk? just leave them in and set up another tank?
he is not eating at all and if nothing is done he will starve.
he is not eating at all and if nothing is done he will starve.
Last edited by Lucas339 on Wed Nov 12, 2008 1:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Atlantic sharp nose HELP!!!
and could they spread to the other fish?
Re: Atlantic sharp nose HELP!!!
a little update.
set up a QT tank and added some parasite meds. couldn't find anything for nematodes so hopefully this will help knock back the infestation. did a concentrated dip with great success. it may be premature but after the dip he swam around like normal for a while but then settled to the bottom as he has been for the past few days.
no matter what something needed done so this is the course of action ive taken. the fish is not eating so just living with whatever it is he has is not an option. hopefully this will help him regain some appetite and i can go from there.
thanks for all who have put in some advice. i never in a thousand years thought i would stumble upon a site like this. nor did i ever thought i would go through all this trouble for a free wild caught fish. i really want more puffers but want to set up some single species tanks for them.
set up a QT tank and added some parasite meds. couldn't find anything for nematodes so hopefully this will help knock back the infestation. did a concentrated dip with great success. it may be premature but after the dip he swam around like normal for a while but then settled to the bottom as he has been for the past few days.
no matter what something needed done so this is the course of action ive taken. the fish is not eating so just living with whatever it is he has is not an option. hopefully this will help him regain some appetite and i can go from there.
thanks for all who have put in some advice. i never in a thousand years thought i would stumble upon a site like this. nor did i ever thought i would go through all this trouble for a free wild caught fish. i really want more puffers but want to set up some single species tanks for them.
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Re: Atlantic sharp nose HELP!!!
If he's feeing that poorly, then maybe he's already had his years of doing ok despite the worms & now the nematodes have reared their ugly heads & it's just his time... 
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!"
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yeah thats what im affraid of. he has been a great fish and if he pulls through...awsome...if not then at least i tried.
Pufferpunk, what type of puffer is that in your avatar? and is he in a single species tank?
Pufferpunk, what type of puffer is that in your avatar? and is he in a single species tank?
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Re: Atlantic sharp nose HELP!!!
That's Punkster, she's a Tetraodon murius, or Congo puffer. She doesn't play well with others & lives alone.
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!"