The Puffer Forum

How do I give it to them? Soak it in their food?

Ok, well let's say I was treating with metroplex or prazipro, and I fed them brine shrimp and snails (When they actually eat them). How would you combine the two for a medicated food source, and using what products to do so? My littlest one will eat nothing but snails. My fattest one will eat nothin...

I was told they will absorb it through their bodies because they don't have scales and that they are particularly sensitive to medication because of that.
Is that just flat out not true? There seems to be a lot of BS in various forums and I just want to care for my babies lol.

Well because she wouldn't eat I just treated the water and used the medication as a bath. I was told on another forum that because they are super sensitive to medication you can usually just treat their water and they should be fine. It has worked a few times before but had I known she was going to ...

I have four Dwarf Puffers in a 20 gallon tank, very full with decorations and they have lived peacefully together for about a year. I feed all of them brine shrimp, keep snails in the tank for feeding and change the tank twice a week. The levels are all just as normal as they have always been and I ...