Yes, the malachite green meds have been put sfely away in the cupboard and will not be used.
The remaining five puffers all ate well last night - I watched them to make sure they all ate rather than just played with the food (always entertaining when you have a DP attached to each end of bloodworm!), and they all had nice rounded tummys afterwards. I think I am just a bit paranoid at the moment.
If anyone in the UK point me in the right direction for suitable meds then I would be grateful.
Advice needed for dwarf puffer
Forum rules
Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
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.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
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.
Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
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.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
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.
-
bertie 83
- Moderator
- Posts: 5298
- Joined: Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:28 pm
- Gender: Male
- My Puffers: lineatus R.I.P, South American puffer. Valentini puffer, porcupine puffer.
Non puffer
Danios, Tetras, Redtail Rasporas,
Harlequins, CAE's, Yoyo
Loaches, Clown loaches ,Eels, various shrimp, tangs,wrasses, damsels, chromis - Location (country): Brighton, England
- Location: brighton , england
Re: Advice needed for dwarf puffer
I am also interested to find out what's available however if needed could we not pay our American friends to ship us some as it seems impossible to get here?
It's amazing how easy maintenance is. If done regularly and thoroughly
-
hadla
- Mbu Puffer
- Posts: 1626
- Joined: Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:33 pm
- Gender: Female
- My Puffers: 2 gsps and a big Stars and stripes
- Location (country): California
- Location: Sacramento, CA
- Contact:
Re: Advice needed for dwarf puffer
id be happy to help as long as i get paypalled for what the meds and shipping cost first lol since i dont have any money to buy anythingbertie 83 wrote:I am also interested to find out what's available however if needed could we not pay our American friends to ship us some as it seems impossible to get here?
Never trust big puffers. The fingers you save may be your own. -RTR
Re: Advice needed for dwarf puffer
Out of interest....how often do you guys feed your DPs? We normally give ours some kind of frozen food once every two days - usually a large bloodworm each or the equivalent in other frozen food. Is this often enough or should we really be feeding every day?
-
bertie 83
- Moderator
- Posts: 5298
- Joined: Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:28 pm
- Gender: Male
- My Puffers: lineatus R.I.P, South American puffer. Valentini puffer, porcupine puffer.
Non puffer
Danios, Tetras, Redtail Rasporas,
Harlequins, CAE's, Yoyo
Loaches, Clown loaches ,Eels, various shrimp, tangs,wrasses, damsels, chromis - Location (country): Brighton, England
- Location: brighton , england
Re: Advice needed for dwarf puffer
That sounds more than reasonable. Once again this is why this forum is so great. Do these meds have a shelf life as may get some incase my next puffer friend has ips lolhadla wrote:id be happy to help as long as i get paypalled for what the meds and shipping cost first lol since i dont have any money to buy anythingbertie 83 wrote:I am also interested to find out what's available however if needed could we not pay our American friends to ship us some as it seems impossible to get here?
It's amazing how easy maintenance is. If done regularly and thoroughly
-
hadla
- Mbu Puffer
- Posts: 1626
- Joined: Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:33 pm
- Gender: Female
- My Puffers: 2 gsps and a big Stars and stripes
- Location (country): California
- Location: Sacramento, CA
- Contact:
Re: Advice needed for dwarf puffer
i dont really know. all ive ever ordered online was geltek for internal parasites a few years ago. it says expires 1012 which im guessing is october of 2012... and ive hardly used it. over 3 ounces left in a 4 ounce bottle lol i highly doubt ill use any more of it before it expires
Never trust big puffers. The fingers you save may be your own. -RTR
-
bertie 83
- Moderator
- Posts: 5298
- Joined: Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:28 pm
- Gender: Male
- My Puffers: lineatus R.I.P, South American puffer. Valentini puffer, porcupine puffer.
Non puffer
Danios, Tetras, Redtail Rasporas,
Harlequins, CAE's, Yoyo
Loaches, Clown loaches ,Eels, various shrimp, tangs,wrasses, damsels, chromis - Location (country): Brighton, England
- Location: brighton , england
Re: Advice needed for dwarf puffer
Cool may well be in touch hadia. Re feeding every other day is fine as long as they maintaining round tummys, if looking a little skinny 2 days food 1 day off
It's amazing how easy maintenance is. If done regularly and thoroughly
-
Pufferpunk
- Queen Admin
- Posts: 32976
- Joined: Tue May 31, 2005 11:06 am
- Gender: Female
- My Puffers: Puffers I have kept:
T lineatus
T miurus
A modestus
T biocellatus
C valentini
C coranata
C papuan
C lorteti
DPs
suvattii
burrfish
T niphobles - Location (country): USA, Greenville, SC
- Location: Greenville, SC
- Contact:
Re: Advice needed for dwarf puffer
I think a small, active fish should be fed daily, skipping 1 day/week.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
Re: Advice needed for dwarf puffer
Of the five remaining DPs two of them seem generally to be a little less rotund than the others. Not in an unhealthy, skinny-looking way, but just a little slimmer. I paid more attention at the feeding time today and they all attempted to stuff themselves on the food available to them. I did notice that the two slimmers ones were harder to get the food to though because it kept getting snapped up by the porky ones, who I don't want to overfeed. If the problem continues then I shall try the isolation method of feeding that some of you guys mentioned. Do you just keep them in the breeder box long enough for the few minutes it takes to feed them?
I think we've been quite lucky as we can get our guys to take most kinds of frozen food that we offer them now. The only frozen food I've found that they won't eat is some kind of white wormy-looking stuff (I don't know what it is, its part of a quintet pack we have which doesn't actually tell me what is in it). The occupants of our two community tanks also turn their noses up at this stuff though so I'm guessing its not particularly appetising from a fishy point of view.
I think we've been quite lucky as we can get our guys to take most kinds of frozen food that we offer them now. The only frozen food I've found that they won't eat is some kind of white wormy-looking stuff (I don't know what it is, its part of a quintet pack we have which doesn't actually tell me what is in it). The occupants of our two community tanks also turn their noses up at this stuff though so I'm guessing its not particularly appetising from a fishy point of view.