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Re: Fahaka needs your help
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:51 am
by Pufferpunk
Would that be the same as removing a tick & worrying about the head or "anchor" being left & growing another one?
Re: Fahaka needs your help
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:59 am
by Agnate
From what I read, no. It seems as though the anchor worm will spawn larvae, though, which could be anywhere in the tank. Thus, after physically removing the anchor worms, you have to medicate the tank to prevent more.
Again, only do this if you're convinced it's anchor worms.
Re: Fahaka needs your help
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:03 pm
by LinearChaos
Agnate wrote:From what I read, no. It seems as though the anchor worm will spawn larvae, though, which could be anywhere in the tank. Thus, after physically removing the anchor worms, you have to medicate the tank to prevent more.
Again, only do this if you're convinced it's anchor worms.
Yup
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Re: Fahaka needs your help
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:48 pm
by matt77
What ever it is, its not anchor worms there to small as anchor worms are about 1cm long and are mainly found in cold water tanks and ponds.
Re: Fahaka needs your help
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 12:44 am
by Pufferpunk
Back to infected spines?
Re: Fahaka needs your help
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:37 am
by The Bruce
how's the fahaka doin? i just saw her in your gallery and he is stunning
Re: Fahaka needs your help
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:53 am
by matt77
The Bruce wrote:how's the fahaka doin? i just saw her in your gallery and he is stunning
she is doing fine getting back to her old self
Re: Fahaka needs your help
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 10:44 am
by Pufferpunk
So the "spikes" just went away? Did you treat with anything?
Re: Fahaka needs your help
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:18 am
by matt77
Pufferpunk wrote:So the "spikes" just went away? Did you treat with anything?
yes i did treat her but i still can believe it worked, my grandad said to inject garlic in to her food and feed it to her and now everything has gone, he said that the fish excreat the garlic through there skin and it kills the parisite whos to argue hes kept fish for 70 years and it worked.
Re: Fahaka needs your help
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:01 pm
by Agnate
Haha, awesome! Hopefully they stay away!
Maybe that's why they go crazy for it if it's instinctual that the garlic could help clear external parasites from them.
Re: Fahaka needs your help
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:21 pm
by marksrush
I think that since most puffers seem to love garlic, they must've originally evolved somewhere in what is present-day Italy.
Re: Fahaka needs your help
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:14 am
by ACF
marksrush wrote:I think that since most puffers seem to love garlic, they must've originally evolved somewhere in what is present-day Italy.
Italy? I was thinking this fish was from Ukraine! LoL Us Ukrainians don't touch food without garlic and or onion in it!
LoL
Perhaps they're East European! =)