A few questions

[Pufferpunk]

Discomed won't help with internal parasites? What's the difference between gut & internal parasites?

 

[RTR]

Camallanus is the typical gut roundworm, tapeworms are also gut inhabitants. They live inside the gut, and are generally treatable.

The sort of roundworms seen in the recent thread on the puffer list, or the thread at Tom's Place with the pics, are a different matter. I don't think they can be treated without killing the fish. They do not live insdie the gut, but in the body cavity, under the skin, around/in/between the muscles. If you do kill them, the dead worms will kill the fish by toxicity.

 

[Shikkapow]

Originally posted by Pufferpunk
Why is it that Shikkapow's fish is growing so much slower than mine? Could it be a "runt"? She seems to be feeding it well.

SHE??!! wow do I really sound like a chick?? lol

*()(*^$$_ i had a whole long post and my comp dumped it..

anyways short and sweet.. im still confused on what puffer i have ( i now realize its not a ceylon, my mistake, but didnt understand when I posted b4)
I still am all mixed up and from what I am reading from you guys t. nigroviridis= GSP and t. fluviatilis is Ceylon?... fluviatilis looks like a figure 8 not a "spotted green, green spotted, green" (should be named "commonly confused puffer") ...correct?

I was going to link a site with pictures that might help ID my fish, but It has the t. nigroviridis looking just like the t. fluviatilis, justa slightly differ looking body shape (torpedo vs baloon) but identical markings.

going by what you guys a re telling me, I have a t. nigroviridis.. I have no way of confirming this because like you said every website is diffferent. different pictures, different sizes, and different markings. on that note.... who is Ebert, and where can I get his/her book?

heres the link anyways.. ignore the sceintific names, and look at the pics. mine looks like the bottom pair of fish.. only due to the rounder body, and not the torpedo body but as you see the markings are identical.....
http://puffernet.tripod.com/confusion.html

 

[Pufferpunk]

Dear Sir, sorry for the mistaken gender & for confusing you on puffer identification. I should have looked in Dr Ebert's book 1st, before misinforming you through a website with faulty info. Both of those photos are of the same puffer, t nigroviridis. It doesn't matter what shape it is. T fluviatis is a ceylon puffer.

Dr Klaus Ebert's book is: The Puffers of Fresh and Brackish Waters. The book regularly sells for over $50. I think I paid about $36. I can't remember where.

http://www.tomgriffin.com/aquasource/pufferreview.shtml

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?

Here I found it for $30 http://www.fishpost.com/drystock.html

 

[Pufferpunk]

Shikkapow, I was just reading Robert's review of Dr Ebert's book & came across a possible explination of your puffers slow growth:

the author describes the Common Spotted Puffer, Tetraodon nigroviridis, (which he calls the Green Puffer) kept in freshwater as being only half the size as the same species kept in brackish or marine water.

Is your puffer in BW?

 

[Shikkapow]

Originally posted by Pufferpunk
Dear Sir, sorry for the mistaken gender

Sir??? thats as bad as the other thing lol..
don worry about it just busting your chops

yeah the pics were confusing.. didnt really make sense
thanks for the links to the book, ill make it an after xmas gift(along with the new 45 gal, hood and new fish, a filter and umm all sorts of other stuff for me )

The puff is in brackish water kept between .002 and .008 but usually between .4 and .6 I bought it out of a brackish tank at the LFS which is kept at .004...

thanks for the info