Parisite Treatment

[Marine/Freshwater?]

My Takifugu ocellatus is doing well however I see it scratch every once and a while. There are little black dots the size of grains of sand were it is scratching. What is it? How do I get rid of it?

 

[jennybugs]

It sounds like Ich (whitespot) to me. I've never had an incident of whitespot with any of my fish least of all the puffers so I'll let someone else give advice on how to treat. I might be right in thinking that with puffers, sometimes the treatment of various things differs slightly to other scaley fish.

Hope you get it sorted though

 

[Hayleamorgan]

I have heard that as well. Puffers are very sensitive and cannot handle the full doseage. I have heard to half the dose.

 

[andywg]

Treating pathogens on brackish fish has one easy solution; just shunt the salinity up or down a few notches. The fish will be fine while the pathogen (usually) will not.

 

[Marine/Freshwater?]

Fish will be fine? I would normally change the salinity. Don't you know what puffer I have? Takifugu ocellatus. I am not screwing with water conditions at all. It is actually comfortable, which is unheard of. Whatever it has it looks like freshwater fish lice. I am using Primafix. Melafix blows with tetradontids, lost all my filefish. They seem to be adversly affected. I also obviously cannot quarentine my fish either. I might pull the carbon out this weekend and turn of the skimmer. The stupid skimmer foams ridculously when I add meds, they are like soap.

 

[DarkEntity]

Fish will be fine? I would normally change the salinity. Don't you know what puffer I have? Takifugu ocellatus. I am not screwing with water conditions at all. It is actually comfortable, which is unheard of. Whatever it has it looks like freshwater fish lice. I am using Primafix. Melafix blows with tetradontids, lost all my filefish. They seem to be adversly affected. I also obviously cannot quarentine my fish either. I might pull the carbon out this weekend and turn of the skimmer. The stupid skimmer foams ridculously when I add meds, they are like soap.

Most bugs like Ich survive within a specific band, if you change that band, ie raise or lower the SG they wont generally survive. Thats why raising the water temp and adding salt to freshwater fish kills the bug.

 

[Marine/Freshwater?]

I cannot alter the water! I am to afraid of upsetting such a gentle fragile fish. I have not seen it scratch in quite a while.

 

[Fella]

I cannot alter the water! I am to afraid of upsetting such a gentle fragile fish. I have not seen it scratch in quite a while.

A brackish fish would naturally have to be used to changes in salinity in the wild. It will be fine if you do it slowly.

 

[Marine/Freshwater?]

Not screwing with this fishe's water. A marine GSP can practically be dunked in freshwater. However my puffer is way to fragile! He seems to be doing better anyway. I really need to get him sand though.

 

[andywg]

Not screwing with this fishe's water. A marine GSP can practically be dunked in freshwater. However my puffer is way to fragile! He seems to be doing better anyway. I really need to get him sand though.

You do realise that your fish is a truly euryhaline fish that is perfectly capable of moving from one region of salinity to another, yes?

The Takifugu genus is hardy enough to be repeatedly used in scientific studies, in particular because of their adaptive osmoregulatory system. The main issue of keeping T. ocellatus in the hobby is being able to keep the water cool enough.

 

[Marine/Freshwater?]

Of course I realize that. But if even a few microrganisms die, it could screw up the tank. The fish is surviving in its current conditions I am not changing them.