Constipated Dog Face
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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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Re: Constipated Dog Face
Carib Sea Florida Crushed CoralWhat type of substrate is in your system??
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Re: Constipated Dog Face
Puffers have been known to ingest crushed coral and unfortunately this can cause intestinal blockage/obstruction. I have seen this on many necropsies.
I have written about this in the Puffer Proofing article in May 2007 FAMA.....good reminders for all puffer owners or owners to be
I have written about this in the Puffer Proofing article in May 2007 FAMA.....good reminders for all puffer owners or owners to be
Kelly
Re: Constipated Dog Face
Thank you, very interesting article puffer queen. Learned a bit more, after 7 1/2 yrs with this guy I have seen him many a time blow the coral out of the way in search of food, never any interest in digesting it so I don't really think it was the coral but good point to remember. Now that I think about it puff had lately developed the habit of nipping at the silk plants. Needless to say they were removed after finding many plastic pieces floating in the water. The boyfriend the fish expert but not on puffers, that is my love, did suspect this could of be the cause of the blockage. Might want to include silk or plastic plants as hazardous to puffers in your next article.
You don't have to tell me about reticularis puffer and there teeth my Star (the puffer forum logo fish) practical flatten the power heads . Puffers will be puffers . Thanks again for you time and help it is so much appreciated. Any suggestion on a new puffer I have access to a importer so can possible get anything. The 125gl was puff's tank no other fish but a couple of damsel, was kind of thinking of the Panda Puffer. Would love to hear your input.
You don't have to tell me about reticularis puffer and there teeth my Star (the puffer forum logo fish) practical flatten the power heads . Puffers will be puffers . Thanks again for you time and help it is so much appreciated. Any suggestion on a new puffer I have access to a importer so can possible get anything. The 125gl was puff's tank no other fish but a couple of damsel, was kind of thinking of the Panda Puffer. Would love to hear your input.