Humpback puffer with a whitish fuzz..fungus or protozoa?
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:57 pm
Ok, normally i would feel confident with my ability to diagnose a fish related problem but lately i've been rusty at it. It also involves a fish my girlfriend and i are horribly attached too.
Our humpback puffer Fred has what appears to be a whitish fuzz forming on him, just behind the pectoral fish kinda on the shoulder region. We are trying to get a pic of it but its not showing up well in the digicam.
Normally i'd treat for fungus but i've been fighting the same appearing disease in my guppy tank, which irritatingly enough is right next to Freds tank.
I was at petsmart getting some meds for the guppies when a young lady there asked if i thought it was guppy disease on the females i have. We looked it up and sure enough the discription and symptoms were very similar. Down to the eroding of the flesh in a band around the mid body of the fish.
The only treatment i could find on the net for Tetrahymena was a formalin based ich remedy so i used it and it seems to be doing well for the guppies.
I know some puffers react differently to some meds, the proprietary meds that i have on hand and used on the guppies were Jungles Ich guard 2, and the parasite tank buddies. So far no more guppy losses.
Will any of those meds adversely affect Fred? the main ones appear to be Formalin the the ich medication and acriflavine in the antiparisitical.
I have had a heater/home heating problem and the tank too a bad chill for a couple days and i'm sure that didnt help anything.
I really really really dont want to loose this fish and i dont want to shot gun the disease and hope something works. All i've done so far is medicinal salt, 1 tablespoon for give gallons and a dose of antifungal....done this morning before i really thought about the idea of the "guppy plague" affecting puffers.
does anyone have any ideas on this, he's behaving normally, other than the fuzz on the body and tad bit on a fin all seems well. He's heated back up (done slowly, relatively) to 77 degrees. No ammonia, no nitrite, and less than 15 ppm nitrates, no other fish ( he likes to chew on them).
seems aquatronice ( i believe that was the company ) makes or used to make a product that was recomended for it but i havent been able to find it locally and not a lot of luck finding it available on the net....i'll look for the product again and try to post the info on here about.
Our humpback puffer Fred has what appears to be a whitish fuzz forming on him, just behind the pectoral fish kinda on the shoulder region. We are trying to get a pic of it but its not showing up well in the digicam.
Normally i'd treat for fungus but i've been fighting the same appearing disease in my guppy tank, which irritatingly enough is right next to Freds tank.
I was at petsmart getting some meds for the guppies when a young lady there asked if i thought it was guppy disease on the females i have. We looked it up and sure enough the discription and symptoms were very similar. Down to the eroding of the flesh in a band around the mid body of the fish.
The only treatment i could find on the net for Tetrahymena was a formalin based ich remedy so i used it and it seems to be doing well for the guppies.
I know some puffers react differently to some meds, the proprietary meds that i have on hand and used on the guppies were Jungles Ich guard 2, and the parasite tank buddies. So far no more guppy losses.
Will any of those meds adversely affect Fred? the main ones appear to be Formalin the the ich medication and acriflavine in the antiparisitical.
I have had a heater/home heating problem and the tank too a bad chill for a couple days and i'm sure that didnt help anything.
I really really really dont want to loose this fish and i dont want to shot gun the disease and hope something works. All i've done so far is medicinal salt, 1 tablespoon for give gallons and a dose of antifungal....done this morning before i really thought about the idea of the "guppy plague" affecting puffers.
does anyone have any ideas on this, he's behaving normally, other than the fuzz on the body and tad bit on a fin all seems well. He's heated back up (done slowly, relatively) to 77 degrees. No ammonia, no nitrite, and less than 15 ppm nitrates, no other fish ( he likes to chew on them).
seems aquatronice ( i believe that was the company ) makes or used to make a product that was recomended for it but i havent been able to find it locally and not a lot of luck finding it available on the net....i'll look for the product again and try to post the info on here about.