The Puffer Forum

Understood. What a shame. I appreciate that you are still here trying. The site still has loads of old info and chats that are extremely valuable. I do struggle with the Facebook sites though. It is tough to get good info, atleast that is my experience. I did come across an old string about a puffer...

Good lord. Please, ignore me.
My kit is expired. I took a sample to
LFS to talk with them and it came out perfectly normaI am doing a medication treatment of Furan-2, kanaplex and general cure for his slime coat disease and to deal with any bacterial infection that is happening right now.

My Fahaka is sick. Has been for a week. Slime coat disease and now a couple of patches below his mouth are raw and red, almost fuzzy. Treating with Kanaplex- day 3. Not much happening. Clamped gill. Not eating. Not good. Doing a water test today. The ph is higher than normal. Its always been steady....

Well, I spoke to you about it actually. Several times. It had to do with a lump in his mouth. He then stopped eating for 3 months. His mouth started actually deteriorating/getting eaten away. He was starving to death. But you were the only person to answer and you didn’t have any ideas. I didn’t thi...

Hi. He is 4.5 years old 125g tank. Ammonia-0 Nitrites-0 Nitrates-10-20 (its always hard to tell) Ph 7.2 80F I change 40% weekly. Yesterday he seemed a bit moody. Stayed buried. No begging for food. Came out after lights out but I didn’t get a good look at him. Today the same. Not much swimming. Trie...

Hi. I have a 15" Fahaka Puffer that I have been trying to save for the past 3 months and the time has come to let him go. He is suffering and deteriorating in a way that is not ok. I need to do what is best for him. In my efforts to help him get better I had to sedate him with Clove Oil once to...

Sorry, I kept checking in and wasn’t getting an updated response. I have a few sites with questions hoping someones seen something similar. He is big. Somewhere over 14-15”. I can pet him a little but have never needed to remove or handle him. There are no nets larger than 10” in town. I can see it ...

Wait, what? It will be easier if you refer back to the beginning of this post. My first one is quite thorough, we seem to have a miscommunication somewhere. Yes. Kanaplex. 3 doses. With safeguard. It is not broken teeth. You are not looking at teeth at all. It is a fleshy lump. His teeth are behind ...

3rd try. https://flic.kr/p/2ndDPNj https://flic.kr/p/2ndMJDJ Thats as good as it gets. It doesn’t look like a link to me but I can’t find anything else. My kids away at college. Im a baker. Not so much with computers. Honestly, Ive done the leg work. I don’t know what you can do to help here. Its a ...

It is beyond my computing capabilities apparently. I have tried once before and twice now with. Flickr and shutterfly to figure out how to upload and then link photos. It is frustrating and unfortunate that it is so difficult to post photos when they really are so needed. I have read that linked art...

Hi guys. A month ago my 4yo Fahaka injured its mouth on a snail shell. It is still no better and he now will not eat anything. I have done a round (3 doses) of Kanaplex with Stress Guard incase there is an infection or anything like that. But he does not look ill,the lump is not red, does not look i...

I did, but I got a lot of talk about it being missing teeth which, i have seen all 4 of his teeth when he has eating a little and they are all in tact. Just broadening my search for information. I couldn’t post a pic here

Hi guys. I have a just turned 4 year old Fahaka puffer who seems to have injured ? His mouth. He has a lump on the inside right up front I believe infront of where his teeth come out from on top, on one side. I fed him his large Mystery Snail, a few days ago. Its just about all his picky butt will e...