The Puffer Forum

I think my puffer has IP's so today I started him on krill soaked with garlic guard and Gel Tek for IP's. How does that sound? I think he would eat the krill without the GG on it, should I leave that out? I just wanted to make sure he took his medicine . He doesn't eat anything other than krill yet but I wanted to get him treated for IP's first before I worry too much getting him to eat something else. All they fed him at lfs was krill so he's a krill-head lol.

Anything else I should be doing?

I would stick to the garlic for now, supposedly it makes it taste better and it is a natural antiparasitic, so no harm, no foul.

If he's eating it, that's the hardest part! Make sure you do water changes with good gravel vaccumings 24 hours after dosing, and preferably again after that. You want to remove any purged parasites, just incase some aren't completely dead, so they don't reinfect the fish.

You can also treat with those parasite tabs that you drop into the water to kill the expelled parasites in addition to the things you're doing and what Myaj suggested.

I've found the tabs to work very well in fact.