mbu with what looks like a prolapsed gut!!!

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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.

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We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.

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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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mikweg
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My Puffers: 1 unknown age tetraodon mbu 6.5" long from mouth to tail
Location: Lingfield Surrey

Re: mbu with what looks like a prolapsed gut!!!

Post by mikweg »

Thanks all,

I would consider keeping another puffer - an mbu would be amazing but seeing as I fell into mbu ownership without knowing about their potential size, this time I would opt for something a little smaller. However finding a smaller puffer with the same amount of personallity will be difficult.
At the moment I wont be getting any more, because I had to shift barry into isolation quick, all the fish I couldn't keep with Barry normally had to go into the big tank which is now at full stocking capacity I reckon. I will also take this opportunity to reclaim some of my kitchen where the small tank was kept!

However should some space arise in the large tank I would consider two or three SAPS. but at the current stocking level I wont be getting any more fish in a hurry:
5 clown loaches 2-3"
2 bala sharks 7" & 5"(trying to get rid of them - I inherited them from people with tiny tanks! but the longer I keep them the more I am of the belief that they are possibly the most ill advisedly sold fish available!)
1 gibbiceps plec 9"
1 polypterus ornatipinnis 6"
1 polypterus senegalus 6"
3 moonlight gouramis 3"
the tank is 490 litre capacity so I'm sure you agree it probably wouldn't be a good idea even with both 1000l/h filters running (I put in the other one for Barry)

I'll keep checking back here though cos I like puffers :D
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