The Puffer Forum

Well I asked about the teething wearing down issue and now I have noticed my Mbu not eating much of anything. My Fahaka has almost doubled it's size since I got it at the start of June. My Mbu is lucky if he even grew a 1/4 inch. I thought I would try Prazipro and see if that gets rid of anything internal and brings up his appetite. Anything anybody else can think of out there. If you need to know the Mbu is about 3 inches from head to tail.

Hmmm. Maybe the Hospital forum is a better spot for this... can you answer these Qs?



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.

Moved to Hospital forum.