Is there a medicine to get Porcupine to Poop
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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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BubblePUffer
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Is there a medicine to get Porcupine to Poop
I think my Porcupine having hard time to Poop.. everytime he poop.. there is this pinky poop thing or could be the fish buttocks coming out from the hole on the anus.. then the Porcupine swim very fast and poop just a little bit.. after a while.. the pinky stuff slowly will go back into the anus of the fish into the fish body, then the fish will shake a little bit.. it's like he is having problem poop properly .. I fed him raw shrimp, brime shrimp, clams and bloodworm. He doesn't like mysis, veggie or any other food.. so I am thinking the fish didn't consume any veggie, might having hard time to poop... any medication for that?
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well when you look from the back of the porcupine just at the bottom area near the tail.. you see there is tiny hole.... so I call it the fish anus..where the Poop come out.... from time to time.. I see a pink marshmallow looking like thing out from that hole and it's around 1cm wide/diameter.. I am not sure it's a hidden buttocks cheek that will come out when the fish try to poop or it's actually a big Poop that having difficulty come out from the fish anus.... when the fish try to poop..that pinky thing will show up outside the body..then after the fish swim around for a bit..then it shrunk back into the anus..
I am lost cause I am not porcupine specialist so I don't know is the porcupine come with a hidden buttocks cheek that will come out during poop time or it's something else... like a poop or something
I am lost cause I am not porcupine specialist so I don't know is the porcupine come with a hidden buttocks cheek that will come out during poop time or it's something else... like a poop or something
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Will the Epsom salt effect anything in my tank? I got 2 Cleaners, 1 Peppermint, 1 Coral Banded Shrimp, 1 Trouchus snail and 1 Turbo.. also some SPS, LPS, Zoos and mushroom in there...
I can buy Epsom Salt from Drug store right? What about those from beauty or bath shop?? I don't want to get something will poison everything in the tank.. so what is your recommendation for pure Epsom Salt
I can buy Epsom Salt from Drug store right? What about those from beauty or bath shop?? I don't want to get something will poison everything in the tank.. so what is your recommendation for pure Epsom Salt
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If it is truly constipation - Epsom salts can help. A large water change can also help.
I am concerned as what you are describing sounds like an intermittent prolapse of the intestine/rectum.
This can be seen with intestinal parasites, intestinal blockage and mycobacterium marinum.
If the puffer is in with other fish - especially rabbits, other puffers, tangs - it really needs to be moved to a separate tank as these fish will bite, nip at the prolapse causing further damage/swelling.
I am concerned as what you are describing sounds like an intermittent prolapse of the intestine/rectum.
This can be seen with intestinal parasites, intestinal blockage and mycobacterium marinum.
If the puffer is in with other fish - especially rabbits, other puffers, tangs - it really needs to be moved to a separate tank as these fish will bite, nip at the prolapse causing further damage/swelling.
Kelly