Dogface Puffer got stuck in powerhead
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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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SaltwaterPufferGirl
- Dwarf Puffer
- Posts: 65
- Joined: Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:39 am
- My Puffers: 2 dogface puffers, 1 porcupine puffer
- Location: Henryville, IN. EST time zone
I have noticed last night after i fed my little guy that even though he still had a few pieces of squid and a half eaten cocktail shrimp he started to swim around and blow water at the sand looking for food. Do you think he just felt really good and wanted to hunt or do you think he was tired of eating shrim, squid and krill. I'm going to go to the pet store today on my way home from work and pick him up some freshwater snails and more ghost shrimp. I just hope he isn't getting tired of prepared food. But I thought that if he was looking for live food he would decide to crunch on some of the hermit crabs that I have in the tank with him. I've just never seen him go around blowing water at the sand. Very cute he really gets into it has his eyes looking around all over the sand.
Smiles are free... so give them away...
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SaltwaterPufferGirl
- Dwarf Puffer
- Posts: 65
- Joined: Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:39 am
- My Puffers: 2 dogface puffers, 1 porcupine puffer
- Location: Henryville, IN. EST time zone
Dog face with white spots
Hello, My little puffer is still doing great. Eating like a pig every day. I only have one question, I think he is finally over his ick no new spots. But it looks like there are a few white almost transparent spots on just his fins that have been there since I purchased him about 3 months ago. They don't decrease or increase in number and don't change in size. I'm wondering if I should be worried or is this a normal thing that puffers get on their fins. My mom had some figure 8 puffers a long time ago and she said that her puffers had these spots and they looked like the same thing, but never bothered the fish. I just want to make sure so I can treat him if needed. thanks.
Smiles are free... so give them away...
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SaltwaterPufferGirl
- Dwarf Puffer
- Posts: 65
- Joined: Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:39 am
- My Puffers: 2 dogface puffers, 1 porcupine puffer
- Location: Henryville, IN. EST time zone
Well my little dog-face puff aka Trooper, has made a full recovery from the powehead intake disaster. I swear he knows when I'm due to get home from work, now he is always out at the front of the tank looking in the direction that I come into the house. He still has a small lighter color almost white stripe on his stomach but that is the last of the area where the wound healed up. I have been feeding him FW rams-horn snails which he loves to crunch, I also put some more live rock that was broken up into smaller pieces and he went to town on them he would look all over the rocks then pick a spot and bite it, I assume he was filing his teeth down. But after I have fed him about 10 snails in the past 3 days I can tell a difference in his teeth size. He has grown since I got him and is fat and happy. It is so hard not to feed him when he begs, when I shake the krill can he comes running, and makes a happy face and dances, if fish could dance.Smiles are free... so give them away...