The Puffer Forum

Honestly, if it wasn’t for this site Fugu wouldn’t be here today. Admittedly, I’ve been more of a lurker over the years, but I’ve learned a ton from the posts here. I figured out all about the lock jaw from here, figured out a method to get vitamin food in him and thanks to you, understood that I had a secondary infection in Vibrio that I needed to treat asap. Fugu is now eating like the little pig he is, hes’ swimming around his QT like the little explorer he is, his skin is still raw but slowly healing. The combo of Kanaplex and Furan 2 has been fantastic, and, since he still has some raw skin, I’m going to extend the treatment to an additional second round (which the instructions to the meds contemplates). I can’t thank you enough for what this site is. My wife even recently came across several helpful posts as she googled things and it led to this site. I have several thoughts on new thread questions of interest to me. Though I do want to wait until Fugu is healed fully before I do anything other than care for him. Thanks again!

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I would be glad to donate! This forum has been a wonderful resource! FYI Fugu isn’t quite out of the woods yet. He still has scarring that appears to be healing, but very slowly. I’m particularly nervous after having read about mycobacterium vs Vibrio. I’m hopeful it was Vibrio or something else, because mycobacterium apparently returns after antibiotics. But since the vet wasn’t able to find any bacteria microbes in the biopsy, I’m remaining hopeful it was Vibrio and the quick add of antibiotics hit it. She has me doing a second round of treatment until the remaining impacted skin heals. Fingers crossed....

Try adding SW Melafix to help with healing.
TIA if you do decide to donate!
There is a donate button above.

Donation made! Glad to do so next year too . You know, I like the Mela idea. I swear Fugu had this same disease 7 years ago. Skin started to show brown and white lesions all over, but not the rapid fin rot. I was warned by one local store expert that there was no cure. I used a combo of Mela and Pima, and he slowly healed. I know people think it’s voodoo medicine, including some well known marine biologists. But for skin lesions, I believe in the two of them. I’m also looking into the hypo. The vet also believes in that. I’m trying to learn what the benefits are.

Vibrio is very common in the porcy species & yes, is extremely difficult to cure.
Thanks for the donation! I just paid to keep this forum open another year.