The Puffer Forum

thanks for the help. so far he is still able to eat if i cut the pieces small enough so hopefully i wont have to force feed

while feeding my fish today i noticed that my puffer wasnt eating normally. he wanted the food but could not fit it in his mouth. he ate a normal amout but it seemed very difficult for him. He gets fed every other day. i know its not an overgrown beak. his beak looks normal and it definitely seemed ...

ammonia: 0ppm
nitrite:0ppm
nitrate:5ppm
ph:8.4ppm
salinity:1.023

he is a porcupine puffer about 7 inches in a 120 gallon tank with 65 gallon sump. I think he has lock jaw because i just fed the tank today and he wanted to eat but it seemed like he couldnt open his mouth like he usually does. he did eat a normal amount of food but it was obviously difficult for hi...

I just finished feeding my tank and am pretty convinced that my puffer has lock jaw. im FREAKIN OUT!!!! :crying2: this puffer means the world to me and i will do anything to help him get better. i know this is not an overgrown beak. his beak looks normal and i can tell when he tries to eat that it i...

well i dont have experience with your specific puffers but my porcupine puffer lives happily with a carpet and long tentacle anemone. he never goes near them let alone try to eat them. he did get stung by my carpet once and he was fine but now he is much more careful when swimming near it lol. the o...

my puffers eyes started to get cloudy about 4 days ago. at first i thought he had ich due to a tang that died from it a few days before but now it looks like fungus. it is only on the eyes and a tiny bit just started to appear on his fins. my clown also died due to what seemed like a fungus. i broug...