a little Mbu help

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His eyes are far too big for his body...he is stunted.

If you have had 2 stunted fahakas as well, this situation is odd.

What size tank? What is your water change schedule?

I am very inclined to believe this is a nutrition issue. What are you feeding and how often?
 
ride1226 said:
At what kind of ratio? I am pretty sure I can get that from my moms vet hospital but the last thing I would want is an over dosage. What frequency of feedings and how potent of a soaking solution? Thanks.
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I don't remember what specific dosage he used. It was a four week cycle. First remove any carbon and then add the powder directly to the tank water. After 24 hrs put carbon in your filter and do an awesome gravel vac job. You do this four times spread out to once a week because of the life cycle of the critters in your fish. The levimasole actually paralyzes the ip and they get passed through the digestive tract. You have to do a good clean up job to make sure you get any possible eggs or paralyzed critters.

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Go up to the puffer media lounge and look at kevinfleming21's thread "meet jackson". You will see that mbu is not stunted and his eyes are much more in proportion to his body. Look through the whole thread, there are multiple pictures.
 
For puffers especially you have to treat the food, not the tank.

Tank a fuzzing tank buddy (jungle tabs). Put some tank water in a cup..1/2 cup. Put food in that cup. Take 1/4 of a piece of that tab, put it in the cup. Let food stay in cup with medicine for 30 minutes, soaking up medicine. Then feed food to puffer.

If the puffer won't eat it, repeat steps above, but add garlic juice.
 
Million Dollar Question: What exactly does this fish's daily diet consist of? May or may not be parasites but if you are trying to raise an Mbu on krill or bloodworms, that would explain a lot.
 
I appreciate your help jenerik. She has had eyes like that since I bought her. Both of my fahakas had similar faces aswell ssince the day they arrived at my house and were put in the tank. Maybe the seller lied about how long he had the fish before I got them. All of my puffers had had a diet of half shelled clams, shell on uncooked shrimp, cray fish, occasional mussel, and occasional night crawler. They have all been excellent eaters. I kept each fish a year and saw no growth from any of them. My tank is spotless, fx5 with matrix and a fluval 305 with matrix, water is always clear and I do 25-50% water changes and thorough vacuuming weekly. Each one of my 3 "large breed" puffers were exactly the same size a year later than when they arrived. It should be noted I suppose that all of my fish were air shipped to me. I have never seen a baby mbu or fahaka in any of my local fish shops. I do not neglect my tank, my fish, their diets, or shove them in 10 gallon tanks then wonder what happened.
 
purplecandle said:
For puffers especially you have to treat the food, not the tank.

Tank a fuzzing tank buddy (jungle tabs). Put some tank water in a cup..1/2 cup. Put food in that cup. Take 1/4 of a piece of that tab, put it in the cup. Let food stay in cup with medicine for 30 minutes, soaking up medicine. Then feed food to puffer.

If the puffer won't eat it, repeat steps above, but add garlic juice.
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I did this with tetra tabs, and API tabs. No luck. I did this months ago and physically saw that worm come out two weeks ago.
 
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