Hey there:
My DP Choti died today. She was the smaller of the two at about 8mm.
She was swimming fine, had no signs of problems at all, her colour was good. Saw her eat a couple of blood worms over the last couple of days.
Tonight found her stuck to the filter intake. She was puffed and had a red intestinal thingy sticking out of her anus about 3mm. No signs of parasites that I noticed. No sunken belly, no stringy poo.
Lall seems fine good appetite and active.Belly rounded after eating two blood worms.
Tried to get pics but they are so small nothing will photograph tight enough to be of any use.
Should I treat for IPs? If so what should I use.
Water yesterday Nh3 0, No2 0, No3 10, Ph 7.8 temp 78. Did 40% water change with vacuuming.
I know they weren't in great shape when I got them but I lost my last puffs and I am feeling discouraged. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Dead DP
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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.
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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Pufferoni, here's a link to a discussion about the products available for deworming our fish:
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7
I use Metronidozle (I know I spelled that wrong!) and Levimasole (a pig wormer) myself. Fast the fish for a few days so they are hungry enough to ignore the taste, then take a little tank water and mix in one scoop of the Metronidozle (it comes with a little measureing scoop) and one of Levimasole, mix it up in the water good, soak their favorite food in it for a few minutes and serve! Make sure to do a good gravel vaccuuming/water change the next day to clean up anything they might purge, and maybe think about doing it again in 3 months or so just to make sure you got most of them.
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7
I use Metronidozle (I know I spelled that wrong!) and Levimasole (a pig wormer) myself. Fast the fish for a few days so they are hungry enough to ignore the taste, then take a little tank water and mix in one scoop of the Metronidozle (it comes with a little measureing scoop) and one of Levimasole, mix it up in the water good, soak their favorite food in it for a few minutes and serve! Make sure to do a good gravel vaccuuming/water change the next day to clean up anything they might purge, and maybe think about doing it again in 3 months or so just to make sure you got most of them.
