Please help me with my dogface puffer

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DreamCatcher1987

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Ok, I have asked around and it has lead to no answers.:nilly:

I have a dogface puffer named cujo as well as a yellow tang, a tomato clown, and a black yellowtail chromis. I traded tangs less than a week ago because my tang was WAY too big for my tank. I got a smaller one who is about an inch and a half long.

When i first introduced the original yellow tang (a friend of mine told me not to quarantine fish if they looked fine), he infected my dogface with ich. Since then, the dogface has been struggling with it

Everytime i feed him, he goes back into his little clam shell and hides and turns really dark colored. He still eats fine and well though.

I can tell he has ich though becuase he struggles relentlessly trying to get the ich off.

here is the url of the fish scratching in case there are any questions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW42Sac2BD8

its a sad video to watch because he scratches to no avail.:cry:

Please someone tell me what i can do

I have heard to try either melafix or hyposalinity. My newer yellow tang has began to show signs of ich as well. what should i try in order to treat them, I dont want to lose my fish and I will not probably be able to upgrade tanks until my birthday in late June if my mom can afford it.

any help will be greatly appreciated
 
hyposalinity is the way to go


drop the salinity down to .0010

keep it there for about 10 days and the ich should go away

you need to drop the salinity over a period of three days, so you don't stress the fish, most puffers can beat ich easily, they don't usually get totally covered with it, the yellow tang is in more trouble than the puffer,

you def want to start qt your fish to prevent this in the future


bob
 
ok so drop the salinity by removing water and putting fresh water in there? also do i need to put my live rock and inverts and things into my 5 gallon quarantine until the hyposalinity time is up?

from now on qt is the way to go lol ive learned and i dont want to make them suffer any more
 
inverts def need to move to another tnk during hypo, the rock should be ok


drop the salinity by adding fresh water

bob
 
ok i have taken out the live rock and am i wondering, will hyposalinity kill the bacteria in my tank???? i have a friend of mine who is saying it is stupid for me to treat my main tank in this fashion just for ich... i will be lowering some salinity in a moment, it is a 29 gallon tank, how much water should i remove and replace with freshwater?
 
it will kill the bacteria, in your tank, but it will be reintroduced when you put the live rock back in, if you use any type of bio filtration, sponges floss etc..

you can move them to your tank with the inverts in it

hypo will kill ich faster than removing the fish to a qt

ich can live in your main tank for 30 days without a host

hypo- 10-14 days

moving fish to qt- 30 days + added stress of moving them twice


i would try to maybe due 3 gallon changes, but check your salinity constantly, and take it slow. only move a few points a day for three days

bob
 
ok would it be a good or bad idea to cover the tank? i have heard it reduces stress on the fish...

also on the 12th i get aquarium supplies for my tank, would it be a bad idea to invest in more live rock to put in the 29 once the hyposalinitation is done, as well as live sand to help boost back the bacteria in the system? would that be bad or a very good idea?

i'm sorry for bugging you, im just trying to figure this out to save my babies.
 
i don't think you need to cover the tank,

as far as the rock and sand, the sand and rock might create a mini cycle and raise the amonia levels streesing out the fish even more, if you can get the rock before hypo is over, mix it with the rock you have and wait a week and it should be cycled. then add it in with no fear of a mini cycle


bob
 
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