The Puffer Forum

this is how my puffer looks today...

In the link it sais: "The following day, you may notice your fish purging dead or dying “worms” from their anus. They may not eat right away, as the dying parasites will likely be affecting their digestive system. However, they will likely recover quickly and be back to their normal selves with...

Went to put some Epsom salts in the tank a lil while ago and puffer still had the red blob out of his anus, then all of a sudden a bit white stringy thing came out of its buttocks and broke off, but stil some attached to it but very bitty, is this normal? All the other fish are nibbling on the white...

Thanks. Am now going to add some Epsom salt to my tank, seems like a lot to add as I have a 150 gallon tank, just hope it works:) and will mix a little bit in with food and leave it soaking for a while, will treat for internal parasites aswell. But will have to treat the whole tank as no QT but I'd ...

Argh ok then well I better treat him then, is it better to treat him or is it possible he could of infected the rest of tank mates? Can Epsom salt be put straight into the display tank? And how much are you supposed to put in? ??

he keeps pointing his tail fin either left or right, it is there, just the angle he was at when I took the picture, and he may look thin, but I have only had him 2 days and he has been feeding fine, until today when I noticed this red thing coming out of his anus, how much Epsom salt shall I give, a...

I hope this picture is clear enough to see what is wrong with my puffer? am very concerned as to what this is and why it has happened?

Hi I have just recently bought a porcupine puffer fish from my LFS, and have had it for only 2 days, it has been swimming around fine and eating normally, he is about 3 inches long and a right little character. however just as I was looking at my tank, one minute everything was fine, then I noticed ...