Oh no!!! My Bob has a growth!
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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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Bob's spot has also become smaller, It seems as if the pressure was finally relieved and the (infection?) was able to escape. I have been watching him like a hawk and he is the same as ever, and I have not seen any similar bumps on any of his tankmates, so I can only hope that it was only some sort of infection and it will heal itself (I hav been adding melafix as to prevent any further infection) and hopefully our experiences with this will give anyone else who has a similar problem a plan of attack for this particular situation: water changes, melafix, and patience. Maybe they won't cry when they see it like I did and realize it is a small problem, just like a "puffer zit" as Pandora said! 
Re: Oh no!!! My Bob has a growth!
Fast growing beak?????? As in teeth or the actually mouth??HRPuffersnStuff wrote:Ok,
I am curious, as he is known for a fast growing beak... could it have gotten so long that it broke off and got stuck in his chin and got infected?
Again... I don't know if I'm confused... but I've never heard of such a thing.... I had to clip my puffer's teeth... I've NO idea what the peak is...It has been about 6 months since I last clipped it. He is not showing any signs of distress, though, which is why I did not think anything of it. I will get a pic up asap!
Is this the case with all puffers??????
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Well, a puffers teeth are more like a beak (think of a parkeet beak) than actual "teeth" so they are commonly referred to as a beak. Birds also have the same problems with their "beaks" if they are not given the proper food and calcium sticks to keep them from growing too long. Sorry for any confusion!
teeth=beak.
teeth=beak.
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I have seen this same condition on a F8 in the pet store. It was slightly offcenter, but looked exactly like it. I think if we have 3 occurrences recorded now, it's likely some kind of common condition, and I'm glad it seems to resolve itself, as I was worried about the little guy in the pet shop and had no way of helping him.
Hurray!!!
Both boys on the mend!! Done another water change today, thought I'd keep with a weekly change until Weeman's better, still a tiny bit of swelling, but again reduced from yesterday and the abrasion just about gone.
On the teeth topic, I've never had to trim Weeman's teeth (touch wood!!) and I've had him nearly 3 years, I have a colomesus whose teeth are a nightmare, no matter what I feed him I have to trim every 4-5 months. But Weeman does a fantastic job of keeping them down himself.
I notice Bob's kept on sand, Weeman is too, would it be possible cause of infection in the jaw? If a grain was to be lodged below the jaw line????
Both boys on the mend!! Done another water change today, thought I'd keep with a weekly change until Weeman's better, still a tiny bit of swelling, but again reduced from yesterday and the abrasion just about gone.
On the teeth topic, I've never had to trim Weeman's teeth (touch wood!!) and I've had him nearly 3 years, I have a colomesus whose teeth are a nightmare, no matter what I feed him I have to trim every 4-5 months. But Weeman does a fantastic job of keeping them down himself.
I notice Bob's kept on sand, Weeman is too, would it be possible cause of infection in the jaw? If a grain was to be lodged below the jaw line????
I notice Bob's kept on sand, Weeman is too, would it be possible cause of infection in the jaw? If a grain was to be lodged below the jaw line????
That seems like a very good possibility. I really don't see how it could have been anything other than an infection.
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