The Puffer Forum

ph:8.2
amm:0
nitrite:0
nitrate: < 20
salinity 1.012

he is being kept in a 4 foot long 2 foot back 2.5 high i had made, with 2 mollies, tho recently there was 4 mollies but 2 died due to the salinity i beleive
(i was told by the aquarium dude that some mollies will do well in brackish but its pretty touch and go because alot wont)

he is fed daily on feeder yabbies and snails skipping 1 or 2 days a week and on occasion is fed christmas beetles, blood worms or squid for some variation
i use tetra marine salt, and do 50% water changes every thursday, with water changes i also add termin-ite bio booster
about 2 weeks ago the tank filled out with a brown alge on rocks and the glass, i assumed it was because the tank was getting a little bit of sun during the day
so i scrubbed it off the glass, and washed all of my rocks, and added some blue tint not thinking which was filtered out within 2 days i forgot i had recently added
activated carbon into my filter

i have 3 filters running, a 1000l per hr canisterfilter with 4 levels 1 level has a sponge another has activated carbon 2 layers have bio balls
the other 2 filters are small internal filters one has sponge and bio balls for media and the other has just a sponge

this tank has been set up for about 3 months now, i cycled it by moving all of my substrate, filters and rocks from his original tank with
a group of 4 fully grown mollies at the time (only 2 left now as stated before)

so heres the problem, about 2 months ago ziggy stopped growing i wasnt sure really untill now tho
and ontop of that this morning for christmas i woke up to ziggy with a cyst about the size of a matchhead
growing from his throat, i quickly checked all of his water parameters, all fine, parameters were as posted above
so i sit down and think about what im going to do when i notice that the matchead sized cyst is now atleast 15 times the size
it looks like he has swallowed a marble almost, i quickly grab a couple of snails to see if he'll eat and he does
infact theres nothing odd about his behaviour at all

Please help people
im in panic i dont want to lose ziggy

I'm assuming Ziggy is a GSP? I don't know what your LFS means by "some" mollies don't do well in BW. All mollies are BW fish & do fine in SW. Is there any way to post a pic of his giant zit?

I don't know what those enzymes are you are adding but they aren't necessary. Please stop adding it--you're wasting your $$$ & possibly adding unnecessary waste to the tank.

ziggy is a milk-spotted puffer
oh and thanks for that i'll be sure not to get that stuff anymore

i dont have a camera right now i'll get around to it as soon as possible tho

but somebody a while ago posted a pic of theyre puffer with what looked to be an identical cyst

Do you remember what they did about it? Try to find that thread. You might want to get his SG higher--they are really a SW fish.

yeah i will be moving him to full marine once i move to my new house it doesnt make too much sence to me that i set up a full marine tank and then have to take it down 2 weeks afterwards to move