Hi,
Ammonia is 0
Nitrite is 0
Nitrate is 10
i have set up the tank for over 1 year. i have a congo puffer been with for 10 month. I notice that these days he doesn't eat much at all and when i feed him blood worm, he would suck couple of them and spit out right away and later just go into the sand. I notice he has fluffy things on his mouth I assume it's mouth fungus. I have been treating Melafix and Pimafix these days for about 1 week already and I just added some salt from API in the tank. I did about 40 % of water yesterday with Prime, I do water change every saturday. my tank size is 22 Gal. I have shrimps in there as feeders but he doesn't seem to be able to get them these days. I'm now wondering should I use any stronger medicine or is there medicine i can bath him into? Thank you.
Mouth Fungus on Ago 2
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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.
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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: Mouth Fungus on Ago 2
I do not know about the fungus..
But people on here are going to want to know if you feed him other things and not just blood worms..
But people on here are going to want to know if you feed him other things and not just blood worms..
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Re: Mouth Fungus on Ago 2
how long as the white stuff on his mouth been there? and do you see any other problems on him?
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Re: Mouth Fungus on Ago 2
If you have had your congo for 10months im assuming he/she is around 3-4inches at that size the dont need to be fed every day and should be fed 3 times a week and as they get older you feed less often, mine will not eat bloodworms anymore and prefers meatier foods like earthworm,mussel,silver sides and raw human shell on shrimp..
my congo will not eat when not hungry and she will only eat till its belly is round and no matter what ur feeding her whether its her fave food she isnt greedy and refuses to eat anymore..i think thats the case with most lurker species unlike hunters which will eat and eat
my congo will not eat when not hungry and she will only eat till its belly is round and no matter what ur feeding her whether its her fave food she isnt greedy and refuses to eat anymore..i think thats the case with most lurker species unlike hunters which will eat and eat
I have 2 water water pugs that own me!!
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Re: Mouth Fungus on Ago 2
Yeah, please post tank parameters and the Q's in Red so we have a better idea of what's going on. Also if you can get a picture it may help.
"Darwin swings...annnnnnd a miss. Boy Jim, Chuck's suffered at the plate tonight. He's 0 for 3 and I'm not sure he's recovered from that shoulder pull a few weeks ago. I'll bet the front office is re-thinking that contract."
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Re: Mouth Fungus on Ago 2
I feed him every other day so pretty much 3 times a week and I have ghost shrimp in the tank if he is hungry. i also put golden snail in the tank and i notice there were lots of small snail later on in my tank which my congo would eat them sometimes. do you mean the tank size meter? I will go home and check as i'm at work at this moment. I know it's a 22 gals tank.
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Re: Mouth Fungus on Ago 2
I think all those questions have pretty much been answered Dadof4! Time for new reading glasses I think!!Dadof4 wrote:Yeah, please post tank parameters and the Q's in Red so we have a better idea of what's going on. Also if you can get a picture it may help.
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Re: Mouth Fungus on Ago 2
Alright, no picking on the blind old man, especially when I'm answering from work....bigfatfish wrote:I think all those questions have pretty much been answered Dadof4! Time for new reading glasses I think!!Dadof4 wrote:Yeah, please post tank parameters and the Q's in Red so we have a better idea of what's going on. Also if you can get a picture it may help.
"Darwin swings...annnnnnd a miss. Boy Jim, Chuck's suffered at the plate tonight. He's 0 for 3 and I'm not sure he's recovered from that shoulder pull a few weeks ago. I'll bet the front office is re-thinking that contract."
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Re: Mouth Fungus on Ago 2
so i wasn't able to take a picture last night, there is only a bit of fluffy things on his mouth. i took out a ghost shrimp and cut the tail off so the congo can easily chase the shrimp and eat it. he didn't go after the shrimp, instead he went under the sand and hide. do you guys know what's going on? thanks.
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Re: Mouth Fungus on Ago 2
Is the fluffy stuff coming from inside his mouth, or is it around the outside?
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Re: Mouth Fungus on Ago 2
it's around his mouth, it doesn't seems like it's coming out from inside of his mouth.