I immediately bought the SAP, but when i released him in my tank i saw that he had some abnormalities under his skin. It kinda looks like he has a adam's apple. So i was wondering does he have internal parasites?Colomesus asselus with internal parasites?
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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.
Colomesus asselus with internal parasites?
A year ago i had 3SAP's, but unfortunately i lost 2 of them.I was looking everywhere to find another 2, but couldn't find one anywhere. So, today i finally found one.A really skinny one, probably starving to death and he/she was sitting with some GSP's in a tank. I immediately bought the SAP, but when i released him in my tank i saw that he had some abnormalities under his skin. It kinda looks like he has a adam's apple. So i was wondering does he have internal parasites?
I immediately bought the SAP, but when i released him in my tank i saw that he had some abnormalities under his skin. It kinda looks like he has a adam's apple. So i was wondering does he have internal parasites?-
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Re: Colomesus asselus with internal parasites?
It's very difficult to say without us seeing him ourselves, and I'm sure you don't want to start dumping in medications until you know for sure he's got some sort of problem. Can you post some pics of him?
I've bought puffers before that I thought had IPs from the way they looked at the store, but then after a week of giving them good, solid meals, they looked absolutely fine and healthy and stayed that way.
I've bought puffers before that I thought had IPs from the way they looked at the store, but then after a week of giving them good, solid meals, they looked absolutely fine and healthy and stayed that way.
Re: Colomesus asselus with internal parasites?
Dumping in medications is indeed the last thing i wanna do. A picture would be very difficult to get, because i don't have a decent camera to take a nice and clear picture with.
Now i must say that after feeding him good for the past days, that his abnormalities have decreased significantly, but the one on his throat is still there and a few others near his tail.
Now i must say that after feeding him good for the past days, that his abnormalities have decreased significantly, but the one on his throat is still there and a few others near his tail.