puffer with white spot!!!

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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.

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We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.

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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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tenastelin
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puffer with white spot!!!

Post by tenastelin »

I had isolate the puffer with marine water but he doesn't eat and swim no more. help me!
sorry for the inglish but I am italian!
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Post by crazyforpuffs »

Without more information we cannot help.

What kind of puffer? What are the water parameters? Is it an isolated spot or are there many white spots? How long have you had the puffer?

We'd like to help but need more from you.
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Post by tenastelin »

no no a lot of white small spots!

ph 8
KH 10
ca 430
no 2-3-4 noone
PO4 no one

he is tetraodon nigroviridis!
he is "full" and the eyes aren't over, but are (incavati in italin)
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Post by Raphael »

It could just be the puffer's spines. how big are the spots?
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Post by tenastelin »

the spot are the oodium or ictyo i think
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Post by Raphael »

How big are they though?
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very small 1mm the puffer is 10 cm long.
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I think it is just the spines, all puffers have spines.
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Post by tenastelin »

ehehe no no the puffer is ill
he doesn't eat, he is different now!the skin is (opaca in italian)
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Post by Pufferpunk »

What is the specific gravity in the tank? Are the spots on his fins too?
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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Post by Pamela »

I'll get Tihsho..his Italian's fluent and he's got back recently. Opaca is opaque...cloudy...this doesn't look very good.
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Tenastelin, maybe you could get a picture.
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Post by Tihsho »

Che è la sua gravità specifica della sua acqua attualmente? Lei potrebbe affiggere anche i parametri di acqua (l'ammoniaca, il nitrito, il nitrato, e l'esponenete di acidita')?

Questo ci aiuterà trova una cura per il suo puffer.
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