Hi everyone,
My DP has developed a sore on his mouth about a week ago. It looks almost like he was rubbing his nose up against the side too much. I watched it carefully and did some extra water changes. It got a little bigger and then died down to a smaller size. It's still present though. Do you think I should medicate? I wish I could get a pic, but thats pretty much impossible with my camera and the DP's.
All important questions:
1) Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, nitrates about 10ppm
2) 10g with 2dps, 2 ghost shrimp, 1 cherry shrimp.
3.) I feed live black worms once a day mon-sat with Sunday for fasting. Only product I use is Prime. I do water changes on Friday of 50%
4.) No changes other than some decorations being moved on cleaning day.
5.) aquarium was set up in October. fishless cycling.
Thanks in advance,
Jess
DP has sore on mouth
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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.
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: DP has sore on mouth
API's Melafix is good first aid for damaged tissue, & they also make Pimafix for fungal problems if you suspect that fungus is present.
The two can be used in combination.
Parameters look good, but keep doing water changes. Can't hurt! Always seems to help!
The two can be used in combination.
Parameters look good, but keep doing water changes. Can't hurt! Always seems to help!
"I plan ahead. That way, I don't have to do anything right now!"
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Re: DP has sore on mouth
Thanks for responding Eieio, I did my water change today like normal, conditioned with prime and added Melafix and Pimafix per the instructions. For some reason though, the puffer who has the bump seems to be stressing out. His face colors are changing pretty frequently. The coloration looks the same as when I'm cleaning the tank, so I know it's a sign of stress. Is there anything else I should be doing other than the melafix/pimafix?
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Re: DP has sore on mouth
I added another airstone on suggestion from Dadof4 and it seems to be helping. 
thanks!
thanks!