HELP! green spotted puffer?
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Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
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puffersir
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HELP! green spotted puffer?
Ok so heres the deal, i set up an aquarium for a green spotted puffer, but kept it freshwater ( i know that most petstores keep 'em in freshwater). i saw that petco carried them, and the one that they had looked starved. it was kept with the glofish, and they probably tried feeding it flakes. the tail had nipping signs and the ouffer was extremely shy. i bought it out of sorrow, and i wanted one anyway. so i brought it hone, acclimated it to the tank temp, and now, a day later, he is just sitting in the corner of the tank (30 gal) doing nothing. he does not look good. what do?
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Welch4
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Re: HELP! green spotted puffer?
I would get some live blackworms and soak in vitamins like vita chem this is to get something subtantial if they did have him on flake. After he has eaten I would follow the feeding guidlines in the library here.. You need to start bringing the salinity up in the tank. This needs to be done with marine salt not aquarium salt. The salinity cannot be raised more than .002 per week. Is the gsp the only inhabirant of the tank? How long has the tank been running, how was it cycled, do you have results of a recent water test?
This should really be in the hospital section. If a moderator could move this.
This should really be in the hospital section. If a moderator could move this.
Forget other advice about puffers you don't hear here - Pufferpunk
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bertie 83
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Re: HELP! green spotted puffer?
Welcome. Try soaking some food with crushed garlic. Puffers will often hunger strike for a week or so after being added to a new tank
It's amazing how easy maintenance is. If done regularly and thoroughly
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Welch4
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Re: HELP! green spotted puffer?
Didnt notice this was your first post. Welcome!
Forget other advice about puffers you don't hear here - Pufferpunk
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hadla
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Re: HELP! green spotted puffer?
What have you tried feeding him?
Never trust big puffers. The fingers you save may be your own. -RTR
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dma1976
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Re: HELP! green spotted puffer?
Get some small snails (LFS usually gives them away as they are nuisance snails). GSP's usually can't resist.
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Pufferpunk
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Re: HELP! green spotted puffer?
Please answer ALL the Qs above, in RED.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
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puffersir
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Re: HELP! green spotted puffer?
Ok i figured it out. the puffer died a few days after i had put him in. its a shame but it should have been expected. the tank had not been cycled. I admit i am at fault here.
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hadla
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Re: HELP! green spotted puffer?
sorry to hear that. Are you going to cycle it and try another puff?Never trust big puffers. The fingers you save may be your own. -RTR
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sgtmyers88
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Re: HELP! green spotted puffer?
For future reference check out this post I made. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=32416
WARNING: Puffers are mischievous little blimps with enchanting powers. You may not be content with having just one.
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puffersir
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Re: HELP! green spotted puffer?
i have been cycling my tank with mollies since my puffer died. now i have 2 mollies, a bunch of ghost shrimp, and 2 otocinclus catfish. ill be ordering 3 red eye puffers in about 2-3 days. the tank is now planted and well established. also, i have noticed that the petco that sold me the puffer now has a 5 gallon tank with about 8 1" GSPs... they are all suffering from fin nipping, one of them doesnt even have a scrap of tail!