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Dog Face has white dots, looks like goose bumps!
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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.
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.
Dog Face has white dots, looks like goose bumps!
What's your opinion of this thead, on the Aquarium Advice site? Would you agree that the white bumps are stress related? Or do you think it's ick, or worse? It's not sand, they don't rub off. Odd. He's eating and ok otherwise. Interesting site ... but thrust the 'word' of the folks here on The Puffer Forum!
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Re: Dog Face has white dots, looks like goose bumps!
mine has the same exact thing as yours, they started appearing 2 years ago and i thought it was ich, after performing treatments and hyposalinity I found out that they get them sometimes when they puff up. I can't remember where i heard or read about that but i saw him puff up and he had a new batch of those bumps afterwards so i called it case closed. I assume it has to do with the spines
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Re: Dog Face has white dots, looks like goose bumps!
Should post this one up to Puffer Queen at her forum in Marine Depot. I'd be interested in her opinion on this.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
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Re: Dog Face has white dots, looks like goose bumps!
They do get marking such as those after they puff. If those marking are there all the time then I would be investigating further.
Re: Dog Face has white dots, looks like goose bumps!
He hasn't blown up at all. I guess that's good. ? So I don't know.
Sandee | NJ
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Re: Dog Face has white dots, looks like goose bumps!
What you mean is that you havn't "seen" him puff, doesn't mean he hasn't done it.
Re: Dog Face has white dots, looks like goose bumps!
You're right - I should have stated it that way!
Sandee | NJ
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Re: Dog Face has white dots, looks like goose bumps!
Check out the 2nd pic of this puffer:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forum ... p?t=187994
Doesn't it seem to have the same spots on it's belly?
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forum ... p?t=187994
Doesn't it seem to have the same spots on it's belly?
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Re: Dog Face has white dots, looks like goose bumps!
Those markings: Most likely related to puffing and apparently harmless as already noted.
What it is exactly: IDK. Would have to look at it under the microscope.
I suppose it may be some material (old, alterated mucous with old skin cells?) that comes out when the spines come out while blowing up, but is left behind after the spines are back again.
What it is exactly: IDK. Would have to look at it under the microscope.
I suppose it may be some material (old, alterated mucous with old skin cells?) that comes out when the spines come out while blowing up, but is left behind after the spines are back again.
Come on PP... we had this puffer a few times in your very forum. It is a Marilyna pleurosticta. Brackish to marine, occasionally entering rivers, Northern Australia. Send them over here and tell them to make a search for Marilyna.Pufferpunk wrote:Check out the 2nd pic of this puffer:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forum ... p?t=187994
Doesn't it seem to have the same spots on it's belly?
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Re: Dog Face has white dots, looks like goose bumps!
Duh... Thanks Marco, I forgot. My memory is really crap!
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
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