Salt dips

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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.

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Salt dips

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Hello...
I took my new MBU puffer to the vet's yesterday as "it" has been flicking around the tank lately, real dark in colour and tucking away his tail...seems as tho hes gasping as well... :?
(I'm new to the puffer scene and didn't know to much about them until i was left with a 4/5 inch MBU puffer in a tiny little tank.
(Housemate abandoned the mbu, and moved away) Very nice of him! :x
I bought a larger tank for the MBU who is now called fluffy...
It's still only a 125l tank but as fluffy gets bigger in size i shall buy a much larger tank. Due to space issues as well it will have to wait until i eventually move house.
Anyway...my question...(i apologies for the long boring read...)

The vet told me yesterday to give my fluffy a salt dip...only the one to see how he reacts...(the vet did a skin scrape and found some form of bacteria on him, only a little bit but wanted to give him a salt dip to get rid of that) but i cannot for the life of me remember how much salt i should mix into how much water...
The surgery is shut on weekends so I cant even ring and ask him again....
I do usually pay attention but its hard to listen properly to someone when they have your puffer on a table and it puffs up for the first time :shock: ...
Ive had fluffy two weeks now and I'm getting very attached.

so...how much salt to how much water for a salt dip?
(Thanks for reading :) :D )
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Post by Boxermom »

Hopefully this will help: http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13 And welcome!
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Thanks for your quick reply!
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Post by BuBBLes »

I did the salt dip...
I think he kind of enjoyed it.
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Post by Pufferpunk »

If is indeed the puffer you said it was in the other thread, then it should be in brackish water. Probably why it enjoyed the dip.
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Post by Rocker »

so what type of puffer are we talking about?
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Suspected T.hilly.
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Post by Hilly »

How long did your housemate have him before he abandoned him.
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Post by BuBBLes »

He left a few weeks ago...I have no idea how long he has had him for.
But i started to find shrinps and prawns and even cockles in the freezer about 6 weeks ago...
Been away with work so didn't really see much going on around the house thb.
He was a total as%$&*#.
Hence why he just left. Apparently tenancy agreements mean nothing to him.
But...fluffy was in 30ltr tank when i found him.
And I'm heaps glad i did because now i have a wicked awesome fish.
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