The Puffer Forum

Walrus Head wrote:

LilGreenPuffer wrote:Sounds like a fungus to me. I couldn't see diddly-squat in the video, though. Treat with Pimafix and Melafix, or, if you can't find those, move him into a hospital tank and treat with a stronger antibiotic. Keep his water conditions as perfect as is humanly possible.

in that video forward it to 33 Secs youll see a white spot under his gill and white stuff on his fin

its hard to take pictures he moves so fast i wanna grab him and hold him still GRRR

LilGreenPuffer wrote:If that was it, then I'm still guessing fungus.

So the best stuff is primafix??

There's no R. It's just Pimafix. Yes, Pimafix is good for fungal infections.

LilGreenPuffer wrote:There's no R. It's just Pimafix. Yes, Pimafix is good for fungal infections.

Ive got a multipurpose AntiFungal Solution which has Malachite Green, Formaldehyde and Copper Sulphate in it! Are any of those chemicals harmful to pufferfish??

Walrus Head wrote:

LilGreenPuffer wrote:There's no R. It's just Pimafix. Yes, Pimafix is good for fungal infections.

Ive got a multipurpose AntiFungal Solution which has Malachite Green, Formaldehyde and Copper Sulphate in it! Are any of those chemicals harmful to pufferfish??

Malachite green is a die and is harmful to any scale-less fish. Don't know about the formaldahyde, but copper is also harmful to scale-less fish. And yes, it is Pimafix. I don't know where, of if, I heard Primafix. Maybe that's just how I pronounced it. Now, I just read something about a bacterial infection that looks like cotton, and is VERY contaigious. I couldn't get a real good look, the site froze my computer, twice. Maybe treating with Melafix for bacterial infections, and then Pimafix for fungus would be the best.

Lil' Swimz$ wrote:

Walrus Head wrote:

LilGreenPuffer wrote:There's no R. It's just Pimafix. Yes, Pimafix is good for fungal infections.

Ive got a multipurpose AntiFungal Solution which has Malachite Green, Formaldehyde and Copper Sulphate in it! Are any of those chemicals harmful to pufferfish??

Malachite green is a die and is harmful to any scale-less fish. Don't know about the formaldahyde, but copper is also harmful to scale-less fish. And yes, it is Pimafix. I don't know where, of if, I heard Primafix. Maybe that's just how I pronounced it. Now, I just read something about a bacterial infection that looks like cotton, and is VERY contaigious. I couldn't get a real good look, the site froze my computer, twice. Maybe treating with Melafix for bacterial infections, and then Pimafix for fungus would be the best.

thx mate... Ill get on it tomorrow. when i start treatingif it is bact /fungal infection when can you expect it to start clearing up ??

Its not going to be gone the next morning, but within 4-5 days it should be cleared up, if it is a bacterial infection or fungus. You know, I actually think you can use both at the same time, but you may want to wait until LilGreenPuffer gets back on this. Otherwise you'll have to wait a week or so inbetween treatments. Okay, this is what the back of the Melafix body says, Dose daily for 7 days. After 7 day's do a 50% (edited from 25% to 50% for good measure, and you've got a puffer). Treatment can be continued if neccesary. (And I'd only say it is necessary if it was going away, but if nothing happened start the Pimafix treatment.) Good luck to ya! Oh, and both the Melafix and Pimafix are $5, atleast that's how much I bought them for.

Lil' Swimz$ wrote:Its not going to be gone the next morning, but within 4-5 days it should be cleared up, if it is a bacterial infection or fungus. You know, I actually think you can use both at the same time, but you may want to wait until LilGreenPuffer gets back on this. Otherwise you'll have to wait a week or so inbetween treatments. Okay, this is what the back of the Melafix body says, Dose daily for 7 days. After 7 day's do a 50% (edited from 25% to 50% for good measure, and you've got a puffer). Treatment can be continued if neccesary. (And I'd only say it is necessary if it was going away, but if nothing happened start the Pimafix treatment.) Good luck to ya! Oh, and both the Melafix and Pimafix are $5, atleast that's how much I bought them for.

$5 wow for what ml size bottle? in UK its tarp expensive for nitrite test is about $14, and the pimafix might be summin like $18 RIPOFF but yeh puffer is worth it

$18 for a bottle of Pimafix?? Wow, that is a ripoff. The Melafix bottle is 237 ml.

I got 6" bottles for about $5 each. You can use Mela and Pima at the same time. If you have a skimmer, you will want to get some Melafix Marine. Regular Melafix will make skimmers bubble over.

Walrus Head wrote:

LilGreenPuffer wrote:There's no R. It's just Pimafix. Yes, Pimafix is good for fungal infections.

Ive got a multipurpose AntiFungal Solution which has Malachite Green, Formaldehyde and Copper Sulphate in it! Are any of those chemicals harmful to pufferfish??

Dear GOD! Lil Swimz is 100% right - these are all highly, highly toxic to puffers, and they're very risky for many other fish, too. In fact, formaldehyde is what they used to use to preserve dead animals for dissection. Eeeeewww. Stick with the 'Fixes.

I used "Ich Away" once in my community tank and it killed all my fish.

Forgot my point, the "Ich Away" had all three of those.

Yup! I was reading this thread today while I was in the car but couldn't reply. Formaldahyde is for preserving dead things! The other things are also very toxic, but unless you're out to preserve your dead fish, don't use that stuff!

Lets hope it's just fungal & not vibro, which is a certain death. You'll have to turn off your skimmer during treatment with any of the "fixes" & may still see a ton of bubbles with either product in SW.

ok turned off skimmer gonna apply pimafix now! Hes the only fish in the SW tank apart from 2 hermit crabs.
I got another question if say I had to use melafix would it kill all the bacteria in my external filter tooo ???