The Puffer Forum

You definately don't lose anything by soaking food. Making a highly concentrated mix of meds and soaking it into the food in the fridge overnight is a good way to get them really deeply into the food, soaking this way is one of the few time I have fed freeze dried krill.

My Puffer does this funny thing with the brine shrimp, he eats it like a buffalo wing, take the meat off and spits the rest out. I soaked some food last night, my three other Puffers devoured it, Monk ate it very sparingly. I'm treating all of them at the same time. I bought four boxes of Jungle tabs today b/c I went through two boxes without realizing. I put some Jungle Tabs in with my SAPs that I RESCUED. They had Ich but it cleared up very well . The one that was prob attacked has this scar on him and bacteria infestation of some kind. I'm hoping the Metro clears up the bacteria that is on him. I also think that him swimming under my Bubble River and trying to get out of the other side when there was a bar in front of it didn't help. He also repeatedly swims into the glass.

I did my final water treatment last night. The yiddle guy seems happy, he's swimming up top. He still is skinny but I guess it'll take time for him to put some weight on. I've been feeding him medicated food which he ate a little so that helps. I just went out and bought one of his favorite meals........crabmeat. He seems okay now...........

Good to hear. You can feed him all he'll eat until he fattens.

Awesome, that's the first time I heard that.

After a bout of IPs is one time you can let them eat their fill, at least for a little while.

Monk after he ate a lot last night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEDp994Uro0

cuteyiddlepuff wrote: ↑Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:46 pm I'm still using the tabs to treat the water I just figured food will help kill this stubborn parasite!I did one round of the tabs today is the second round....hopefully this clears it up. I saw him poo, it's white and string-like.

Hi. Sorry it's know it's been a long time. I'm wondering if you could tell me how it went and how you would reccommend i treat my f8 puffer. I think i saw a worm handing out his but. If I did it was dead. Long stringy poop. Poop colored at bottom whitish at top. I'm so out of my comfort zone. I didnt know I had to treat the food and im scared as puffers are scaleless and more sensitive to chemicals. Was hoping you would tell me it went well and what you would reccommend after all you went thru.
Thank you!