The Puffer Forum

i did a waterchange on my tank and noticed my fahaka just laying on the substrate not moving. last day or two he hasn' t really been eating. i soaked some bloodworms in garlic guard and dropped it in the tank. he bagan to swim and i noticed he has a poop coming out that is white and has little bubles in it.. i dont know what it is or cant really find anything about it. does anyone know what it is and how i should treat it? i dosed melafix. hopefully someone here can tell me.
here is a pic of it.

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Has he been treated for IPs?
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no not yet. some people said do it as soon as you get it, others said wait till you see symptoms. of course this had to happen on christmas eve and christmas as to where i cant find an open pet store, so now i have to wait till tomorrow.... its bugging the crap out of me that i cant get it now... i really dont want him to die. i wont be able to dose him till tomorrow evening. i have a 10 gallon i can quarantine him into for treatment.he is still tiny enough to put in there for a couple of days of treatment

Fish can live months with IPs. He looks great--not to worry.

thank you p.p. i was gettin stressed out.

Yea just grab some meds as soon as you can, remember they must be treated internally.

Well, at this point he is not eating. I am gonna have to treat the water first to see if it peps up his appetite. I Am still gonna soak his food in it and hopefully he eats it. The 10 gallon tank will be easier to feed him in cause its so hard in the 150 gallon with him being so small in such a large tank.

Soak the food in garlic, too.

Yea don't waste your money treating the water, it won't do anything

I just got that garlic guard seacham makes. i soaked some bloodworms in it lastnight but he didnt even think about eating them. I hope he eats now. after that white string which i think might have been a worm came out of him, he has been swimming around now. hopefully his appetite picks up also.

Try live earthworms. You can inject them with the meds.

I picked up some seachem metronidazole from a l.f.s. I am gonna transfer the little guy into the 10 gallon and garlic guard, and med soak some bloodworms to see if he will eat this. if not i will go and get some worms and inject them with this medication. hopefully this works or i will be ordering prazi pro for him.

off topic, and my eyes could be playing tricks on me, but that seems like a lot of substrate.

I hope the little fella gets better, he does not look to be in too bad a condition.

He is in a planted tank. I have 120lbs of eco-complete in my 150 gallon. Its about 2 inches thick.
I drained all the water out of the 10 gallon and transfer water from his 150 into it. That way i could put him right in and he wont get stressed from different parameters. I am soaking bloodworms in garlic guard and med right now. I will see if he eats it. He is small enough that he has a decent amount of space in the tank. He is still expelling white string from him. Hopefully he eats and this works.

Water is not all that Important, bacteria does not metabolize in it either way. Only on surfaces of glass, decor, subtrate and the filter media. You could have just added your current subtrate, sponge from the filter and thats it. Tap water with primes better than old tankwater