Hi everybody! My name is Christina and I had someone drop off their puffer to my aquarium shop last week so I've only had him for a short while. She said he is a Mappa Scribbled but I think might be a member of the dogface family. He was living in her tank for years with a Stars and Stripes puffer, both about the same size: about 7 inches. When they came into my store they went into the same 40 gallon breeder and seemed to be living peacefully. Yesterday, I noticed what looked to be some sort of bubble-like mark on him. It's basically just his skin protruding in multiple spots. Are they air bubbles? They are much worse this morning than last night. Also: I did a 20% water change on Monday, Ammonia= 0, Nitrite= 0, Nitrates are about 15ppm, Salinity= 1.021,[img][img][/img][/img]and PH= 8.2. I have since moved him to his own 40 gallon tank but the system he is in holds about 700 gallons and he shares the water with a few hundred fish. I've been feeding him krill and clams on the half shell. Can I do anything? I have two hospitals he could go in, one treats for bacterial with furan, and another with copper for parasites, but I was reading they could be just air bubbles? Any help is appreciated, I hate when they suffer!!
P.s I can't figure out how to attach a picture to this forum...I can email someone if they are willing to look. Thanks in advance!
Looks like a bubble
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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.
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Re: Looks like a bubble
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You have to upload the pic to: www.photobucket.com & link it here.
Mappa is from the DF family of puffers. They both sound extremely stunted, so who knows what's going on with their internal organs... Check our Pufferpedia for their potential size, if growing normally.
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: Looks like a bubble
Hey thanks for the quick response. Here are the photos:
http://s1372.photobucket.com/user/chris ... t=3&page=1
I was thinking maybe Arothron Dogface, or maybe Arothron Mappa? I'm not convinced of either. An id would also be helpful. Thanks again!
http://s1372.photobucket.com/user/chris ... t=3&page=1
I was thinking maybe Arothron Dogface, or maybe Arothron Mappa? I'm not convinced of either. An id would also be helpful. Thanks again!
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Re: Looks like a bubble
Definitely not a mappa: ug.php/v/PufferPedia/Marine/A_Nigropunctatus/
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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