The Puffer Forum

My porc, Juke has swelling under a spine still. It is now 3x the size it was. I called my vet and luckily he has some experience with fish. I spoke to him about symptoms and looked over the pics. He thinks it's a tumor of some sort. And he thinks it will continue to grow until it kills him or he is put down. I did a little research and he's willing to try and remove it. I read multiple articles about people putting their fish under with finquil. My vet wants me to get a bottle, they don't carry it. I have looked at fosters and Smith and other places and I cannot find it. Where do you guys who trim your puffs teeth get it? It can be found as finquil, tranquil, ms222 or tricaine methanesulfonate. Can anyone help?

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I finally found and ordered some. Thank you. His surgery is next week. Have you ever heard of something like this? I wouldn't do it if he could live with the growth but the vet thinks can't.

It's cool your vet wants to do this!

How much is the vet charging you?

I thought it was cool too. He is also an aquarist. I'm gonna ask him if I can video tape the procedure. Not sure the price but I'm supplying the medication so I hope not too much. It will be worth it if it saves his life.

I was gonna ask to at least take pics, vid is even better!

I just got the appointment time for Jukes surgery, Friday at 11:30. Hopefully Friday is not the last time I see my puffer friend. What should I treat his tank with while he is recovering afterwards? I was not planning on putting him in a hospital tank since there aren't other fish that will bug him. I figured it would be less stressful for him to recover in his home instead of a small bare tank. It that ok?

Wishing Juke a speedy recovery on Friday x