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I don't believe our brands are going to coincide, our packaging has to show ingredients.
API Aquarium Pharmaceuticals: General Cure
Tetra: Parasite Guard
Jungle: Fizz Tabs Parasite Treatment
Seachem: Metronidazole

Actually these brands look darn familiar. Going to go thru them again.

Thanks for all the help!

Btw, I have not seen his poop on the substrate since abt a week ago.. I used to vaccum them up everyday.. Yesterday I saw orange liquid like poop/pee from his anus.. sort of like peeing... He has been eating small portion of prawn for 3 days now. I cut into small chunks and drop one by one so that I know when he is full..

I have attach some pictures of him.. no, its not a hummingbird. I think he is much happier than before.

That poo your describing is classic internal parasites type poop, mustering and yellowish. I hope you can find the medicine. Remember don't go by the directions, it has to get inside him.

Your puffer if so super cute! Great photography!

mucusy*, not mustering, auto correct got me

ya i agree poop sounds like IP's but pictures look like he is nice and round.

Very nice photos, hard to get pics of a big excited water dog

Good-looking fella!

I have some pictures of his poop.. sorry I dun mean to be rude.. Just to verify that this is IP.

Btw I have gotten the API General cure. Hooray!! Just need to marinate the food in a bit of that for a while right? Any advice how long should I use it? The instruction says douse in to water too LOL!! and it states nothing about treating IP.. No wonder I missed that...

Btw the PURA NitrateLock is pretty effective.. 3 days without WC and it still kept my no3 below 10.. usually it would have climbed to at least 20 by now..

Btw the pics of him were selected after about 100 or so shots.. I just set the camera to burst and went trigger happy!

Really glad that he is alright now.. just to treat the IP...

Yeah, that mucus is typical for IP's.
Ok, you don't want to use too much medicine in your marinade, or they may not eat it. Crush some garlic to add to the mixture to help simulate your fish to eat it. It doesn't take much medicine to work, so if at first he doesn't eat it, try less next batch. Marinate at least 15 min to an hour, but longer than that, they tend to reject the food.
Try his favorite foods to increase the chances he will eat the medicated foods.
I used about maybe an 1/8 tsp in a small amount of tank water, in a small container, like a baby food bottle size, just enough water to cover the food, and about a half clove or whole clove of crushed garlic.

Oh, that's good that product is working, but please keep up the large weekly, if not twice weekly water changes, there are other things that build up in the water we can't test for that are also dangerous, such as growth hormones and so on.
Mbus are very prone to health issues, some leading to death when kept in smaller than optimum tanks. Until you can get him in a bigger tank, your best option is change that water out as often as you possibly can. I'd even suggest doing daily small water changes, if that something you can manage. Keep his water as fresh and clean as possible.

Hey thanks sevenyearnight, U have been a great help.

Erm, I meant to ask how long should the treatment last, 7 days? or something..

Will keep up with the bi weekly WC religiously no matter.

7 days is good, but a water change every 2 weeks is not good. FW puffers in optimally sized tanks need a minimum of 50% water changes every week.

I think you have enough posts now, you should enter the puffer of the month contest! It's open till the 20 th

oh.. sorry.. I mean to say twice weekly. @ 50%.

LOL, only at TPF does someone take 100 shots of poop & post the best ones!

Pufferpunk wrote:LOL, only at TPF does someone take 100 shots of poop & post the best ones!

LMAO!!!
If we had a poo of the month contest you'd be set!