Hi everyone,
Unfortunately, a pea puffer I had around 3-4 years is now very sick. Facing down the hospital tank she’s spinning, and doesnt seen like can float up. At least I havent seen her go up. I have put her in the hospital tank yesterday because I suspected she had parasites as she was eating but wasn’t gaining weight fast enough, was swimming awkwardly, and had a lump.
Also unfortunately, the hospital tank isn’t cycled because I had to transfer her immediately after consulting online about potential disease and I wanted to treat her using API General Cure that was recommended by my LFS and online sources. But now she’s spinning on the bottom of the tank.
Pictures attached.
To the hospital tank, I added newly bought driftwood and fake plant. I have a filter and heater. I also added half of general cure because the tank is 5.5 gallons. I added 75% water from her usual tank and 25% new.
Tank: 5.5 gallons
Ammonia/nitrate/nitrite should be at zero due to the main tank water having been changed two days ago (rummynoses in same tank all had red noses, so everything seems fine there)
Temp: using those regular aqua thermometers, the temp’s in the green, around 75.
The new driftwood has added the brown coloring, and there is some ditritutus (?) from the main water tank (I siphoned from the bottom stupidly).
Tank mates: 6 rummynose tetras, and another pea puffer (she’s puffy and acting normally)
Regular, main tank: 29 gal
Regular food: frozen bloodworms and pond-snails (?) that sometimes show up in aquariums like the annoying hitchhikers they are after buying aquarium plants
Please help. I dont want her to die. Sadly in my case so far any fish that was put in the hospital tank died…so I am not optimistic.
Spinning deformed Dwarf Puffer
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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.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
Read this before posting!!
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.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
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Re: Spinning deformed Dwarf Puffer
I'm really sorry but she is just too far gone. I would euthanize with clove oil.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
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