The Puffer Forum

I'm currently treating my tank for whitespot (fluctuating temp i think, now fixed) with Waterlife Protozin. It's a 6 day treatment well days 1, 2 ,3 and 6.
My question is......... should i do my normal 30% weekly water change whilst doing the treatment?
Cheers in advance.

I suggest against treating scaleless fish with meds. Read the Ich article in the Hosp section of our Library.

Thanks for reply!
Help..................already treated tank 3 times with 1 treatment to go.
My puffers are in a community tank.
So do I continue treatment i've started or stop it altogether?
Will check library FIRST from now on. A lesson learned methinks................................Puffers are specialist fish with different needs.

I'm assuming they are SAPs? This species will almost always get ich when moved. Another protozoan they seem to get a lot is velvet. Are you sure it's not that?

If they are responding well to the treatments & don't look stressed at all, go ahead with the last treatment. Be sure to do a 50% WC afterwards & add fresh carbon to your filter to remove remaining meds. You still should follow the article after that, as the parasite has a longer lifespan than the threatment you are doing now.

They are SAPs and i'm pretty sure it's ich, they only moved into the tank 3-4 weeks ago and they were showing signs before any other fish, so it seems to add up.
50% water change now done and i'll do last treatment on thursday.
Thanks VERY MUCH for the help.