Little MBU Don't do much swimming!!
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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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Bogwoodbruce
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Re: Little MBU Don't do much swimming!!
As daft as it sounds is there sand in there as substrate or somthing? As to me it looks a little too large and raised our old electric eel which we had at work had what we thought to be whitespot but turned out to be some coral sand lol..... if not just ignore me lol
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matt748
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Re: Little MBU Don't do much swimming!!
I like you thinking and I really wish it wash only sand. 
It is ich though and i am treating as per the info on the site.
Hopefully gone in a couple of weeks. I just wish it was gone now.
wish me luck.
It is ich though and i am treating as per the info on the site.
Hopefully gone in a couple of weeks. I just wish it was gone now.
wish me luck.
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Bogwoodbruce
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- Joined: Sun Apr 12, 2009 8:57 am
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Re: Little MBU Don't do much swimming!!
Oh sorry mate, was just a thought. Stranger things have happened lol.matt748 wrote:I like you thinking and I really wish it wash only sand.
It is ich though and i am treating as per the info on the site.
Hopefully gone in a couple of weeks. I just wish it was gone now.
wish me luck.
Wishing you and your puffer the best of luck
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matt748
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Re: Little MBU Don't do much swimming!!
My little MBU is settling in quite well now.
I have treated the tank for ich for the last 10 days and the results have been great. The Mbu is feeding well, swimming much more and looks very happy. Today is the first day with no signs of ich and although i did a large water change yesterday i still have the temps up towards 87-88 f. Will continue with this till the end of the week before i lower the temps back to the norm.
I have also removed some of the fish and added another filter to the tank making 2 external and one internal now.
Thank you to the Puffer Forum for the advice and thank you to those who also posted advice. You know who you are.
It was appreciated and most welcome.
GREAT SITE, KEEP IT UP!!!!!!
I have treated the tank for ich for the last 10 days and the results have been great. The Mbu is feeding well, swimming much more and looks very happy. Today is the first day with no signs of ich and although i did a large water change yesterday i still have the temps up towards 87-88 f. Will continue with this till the end of the week before i lower the temps back to the norm.
I have also removed some of the fish and added another filter to the tank making 2 external and one internal now.
Thank you to the Puffer Forum for the advice and thank you to those who also posted advice. You know who you are.
It was appreciated and most welcome.
GREAT SITE, KEEP IT UP!!!!!!
MBU PUFFER, 2 x Figure 8 Puffers.