I am looking for some ideas....My Fahaka, Sid vicious has had a sore on his mouth for about seven days. It started as a pink spot next to the corner of his mouth. I thought it was an injury. It was almost gone the next day. It has looked like it was healing a couple of times. It has gotten real red twice. Yesterday it was just a bump that looked like a wart. This morning it got real red again and tonight it looks like two warts. I have treated with Melafix for two days.
He is in a 125 by himself. He eats crabs and mussels. His appetite is great as always but I have noticed him sitting on the bottom of the tank more than usual. This tank has been running for about a year and a half with no problems other than alga. Have had fahakas for about ten years.
ph is 7
Ammonia is 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrates 0
I have had a problem with a brown/green alga in this tank since I put in a new piece of Mopani wood. I have since removed the wood but the alga remains. It is fuzz and comes off the rocks in chunks. Grows in a sheet. I do regular water changes but cant get ahead of this stuff. Turning off lights for a week gets rid of it but when I have light on for a day it starts again.
Sid has growths
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
Sid has growths
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Re: Sid has growths
Try a combo of primafix and melafix. Primafix for the "fungus" and melafix for the healing. Both are gentle so doesn't hurt to try.
With all due respect.. Are u testing the water properly? I dun see how algae can grow when everything reads zero.. Something is not quite right either.
With all due respect.. Are u testing the water properly? I dun see how algae can grow when everything reads zero.. Something is not quite right either.
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Re: Sid has growths
Pimafix 
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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Re: Sid has growths
+1 on the water testing
zero nitrates indicates a tank that is not cycled
a cycled tank will show nitrates
what kind of test kit(s) are you using?
also, +1 on the Pimafix
zero nitrates indicates a tank that is not cycled
a cycled tank will show nitrates
what kind of test kit(s) are you using?
also, +1 on the Pimafix
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Re: Sid has growths
There are a slight amount of nitrates. I said 0 because the scale jumps from 0 to 25. It is neither. It's in between. Nitrates are low because I am doing water changes to keep it as clean as possible. I suspect this is an infection caused by a live crab pinching him a week ago. Does anyone know if this looks like an infection or similar to something you have seen? I have never had a puffer with an infection. This guy has been super healthy and has been growing very quickly.