Growth on Puffer
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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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claytonfaulkner
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Growth on Puffer
Help please....My green spotted puffer has developed and some sort of growth on its right side fin. I need help so that I can treat it before it's too late!!
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Figures... the blurriest part of the pic is the growth. It almost looks like a tumor. Any way to get a sharp close-up of that? How long have you had this fish?
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
That seems a bit fast for a tumour. Has he had any rough handling recently...netting..contact with human hands...
I'm asking cos my F8 Robert got some swelling on a pectoral fin (same fin as your guy) after he jumped out of the tank during a water change, and my partner Steve had to rescue him with alcohol/tobacco/greasy kebab contaminated hands. (We'd just got back from the pub...this is not a snapshot of our lives...well....the kebab isn't)
The swellings on his fin stayed for a good three weeks, and responded well to Melafix. The oils on human hands, and, I should think, fags, booze and kebabs, disrupt their slime coat, and might let in infections.
Pami.
I'm asking cos my F8 Robert got some swelling on a pectoral fin (same fin as your guy) after he jumped out of the tank during a water change, and my partner Steve had to rescue him with alcohol/tobacco/greasy kebab contaminated hands. (We'd just got back from the pub...this is not a snapshot of our lives...well....the kebab isn't)
The swellings on his fin stayed for a good three weeks, and responded well to Melafix. The oils on human hands, and, I should think, fags, booze and kebabs, disrupt their slime coat, and might let in infections.
Pami.
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How embarrassing....I forget...same language, but oceans apart.......and it was quite late. I was a bit worse for wear.
We use that word in a similar way here as well, but it's unusual, so people assume you mean a cigarette.
You'd crack up if you saw some off the off-licences (liquor stores) in deprived areas of the north...Crazy Phil's Fags and Booze. He's crazy, apparently, cos he sells them so cheaply.
Anyway...thougts on this gsp? I'm for an abscess, as surely a week's not long enough for a tumour.
Pami.
We use that word in a similar way here as well, but it's unusual, so people assume you mean a cigarette.
You'd crack up if you saw some off the off-licences (liquor stores) in deprived areas of the north...Crazy Phil's Fags and Booze. He's crazy, apparently, cos he sells them so cheaply.
Anyway...thougts on this gsp? I'm for an abscess, as surely a week's not long enough for a tumour.
Pami.
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Oh yeah, we did get a little bit OT didn't we?
claytonfaulkner: It is difficult to tell anything by the picture. Any chancou can get a closer or at least clearer view of the spot? Is it a solid mass or does it look like a fungus? When you said "a week and a half", were you answering PP's question about how long you have had the puffer or Pamela's question about how long the spot has existed?
Also,please answer ther questions in the stickie at the top of this forum.
claytonfaulkner: It is difficult to tell anything by the picture. Any chancou can get a closer or at least clearer view of the spot? Is it a solid mass or does it look like a fungus? When you said "a week and a half", were you answering PP's question about how long you have had the puffer or Pamela's question about how long the spot has existed?
Also,please answer ther questions in the stickie at the top of this forum.
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