CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What should I do if my pet pufferfish gets sick?

1. What should I do if my pet puffer fish gets sick?

Pufferfish Diseases and Prevention

) Mutual cannibalism is a unique habit of pufferfish from the age of 5mm to adult stage. It is caused by different sizes of fish, empty stomach, insufficient feeding, contact with different bodies, separation, transportation vibration, careless stocking operation and drastic changes in the environment. The tail fin is mainly bitten, mainly the tail fin rays. Especially from 15-20mm, the tail fin cannibalism is particularly serious. The eaten part can regenerate. In the experiment, 1/2 of the tail fin of a 30mm pufferfish was removed, and it can recover 20-30% after half a month. It is estimated that it can return to normal after 2 months. The prevention method is to try to make the stocking of fry uniform, feed with high quality, sufficient and timely, insist on feeding in the early morning, feed well, sort and raise in time to avoid excessive density, etc.

(ii) Bubble disease is caused by the overgrowth of single-cell algae, and will occur when the dissolved oxygen saturation reaches 200% or above. On weekdays, you should use a shade screen to control the illumination, or use seawater with a little algae to raise pufferfish fry. Once you find signs of bubble disease, you should immediately change the water and adjust the dissolved oxygen.

(III) Melanosis is generally caused by improper feed (especially changing feed), nutritional disorders (malnutrition) or high transparency of the breeding pond. Most of them are caused by physiological disorders caused by insufficient feeding. The prevention method is to feed appropriate feed and reduce the illumination.

(IV) Ulcers This disease is a secondary disease after melanosis. Initially, white cloud-like round spots appear on the fish's head and back. If it develops gradually, the skin will ulcerate and peel off, the fish will become thin, and gradually become weak and die. Because this disease usually occurs after the fish is fed with mysid shrimp alone until it is 1.0 cm, if it is mixed with some fish meat and other baits, the symptoms will gradually disappear.

(V) Red tide poisoning When fish fry are moved from indoors to outdoors for breeding, if rotifers are bred in large quantities in the pond beforehand, the breeding water will appear light red or pink. This is the result of excessive breeding of toxic algae and Noctiluca. If the fry are released into the pond under such water conditions and raised in still water, the released pufferfish will die within a few days along with the bred rotifers. Therefore, it is very important to carefully check the water quality in the pond before stocking.

It may be bubble disease, I hope it can help you

2. What are the characteristics of pufferfish poisoning? What is the cause of pufferfish poisoning?

Pufferfish is a kind of fish that many of us are familiar with. Many people have eaten pufferfish and they all know that pufferfish is poisonous. So we need to understand the characteristics of pufferfish poisoning and what causes pufferfish poisoning?

What are the characteristics of pufferfish poisoning?

In terms of clinical manifestations, patients often present with digestive tract symptoms as the first manifestation. The main symptoms are skin tingling, numbness, muscle paralysis, as well as digestive tract symptoms such as nausea and vomiting. In addition, there is a certain degree of muscle paralysis, skin numbness, skin tingling, and skin fever. Patients usually have mild numbness and paresthesias in the lips and tip of the tongue. For patients with pufferfish poisoning, generally mild patients are conscious. You can ask the patient whether they have muscle paralysis, skin numbness, pain, etc. If the poisoning worsens further, the patient may eventually die due to respiratory and circulatory failure. If breathing and heartbeat stop, cardiopulmonary resuscitation may be required immediately, and an emergency call should be made.

What causes pufferfish poisoning?

Tetrodotoxin poisoning is mainly caused by people accidentally eating water or food contaminated by tetrodotoxin or eating pufferfish meat. Tetrodotoxin was once considered the most toxic non-protein toxin in nature. Because tetrodotoxin poisoning is a highly selective fast Na+ channel blocker, it can prevent nerves and muscles from producing excitatory activities, leading to nerve paralysis. After pufferfish poisoning, the main symptoms are paralysis of the central and peripheral nerves, first sensory nerve paralysis, followed by motor nerve paralysis, which can lead to paralysis, coma, and respiratory muscle paralysis leading to respiratory failure. Generally speaking, tetrodotoxin is completely destroyed when treated below 100 degrees for more than 24 hours or below 120 degrees for 20 to 60 minutes. If it is in the process of cooking food, tetrodotoxin is difficult to remove. Therefore, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain are easy to occur, the tip of the tongue may be numb, and the limbs may walk unsteadily and have ataxia.

What does pufferfish poisoning feel like?

According to the investigation of the poisoned, if there is still a warm feeling after eating, the main symptoms of pufferfish poisoning are skin tingling, numbness, muscle paralysis, and digestive tract symptoms such as nausea and vomiting. After the occurrence of pufferfish poisoning, the earliest symptom of the patient is slight numbness in the lips and tongue tip, and a numb feeling will appear about 20 minutes after eating. For patients with pufferfish poisoning, generally mild patients are conscious. You can ask the patient whether there are muscle paralysis, skin numbness, pain and other manifestations. The patient may walk like a drunk, and then vomiting occurs, which is very serious. After eating pufferfish, there are also cases where the poisoning is not noticed until 4 hours after going to bed immediately. In this case, the symptoms of poisoning are quite serious and there are few cases of recovery.

Does pufferfish poisoning kill you in a few minutes?

Death from pufferfish poisoning may occur in as little as 10 minutes, and its incubation period is mostly 0.5-3 hours. In severe cases, death may occur in about ten minutes. Pufferfish toxin is a neurotoxin with strong toxicity and rapid onset, requiring timely vomiting, gastric lavage, and rehydration. If there is no reaction for more than 4-7 hours, the prognosis is relatively good. If there are symptoms such as numbness of the lips, nausea, and body swaying, vomiting needs to be relieved, and then go to the hospital for treatment. It is recommended to avoid eating pufferfish in life. If related symptoms occur after eating, vomiting needs to be induced in time, and go to the emergency department of the hospital for symptomatic treatment, gastric lavage, catharsis, and large amounts of rehydration to relieve the symptoms of poisoning.

3. Is my pufferfish sick?

Normally, if you touch a pufferfish, it will sting you. If it doesn't sting you, it doesn't mean it doesn't want to defend itself, it just means it doesn't have the ability to sting you anymore. So it's sick.

4. What should I do if I pick up a domestic pufferfish with my hands?

The toxin is in the pufferfish's body and it's fine if you don't eat it.