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- Tue Dec 15, 2020 5:41 pm
- Forum: Hospital
- Topic: Dwarf Puffer with swollen chin
- Replies: 5
- Views: 862
Re: Dwarf Puffer with swollen chin
https://imgur.com/a/L9d74Ar I just took these pictures today morning. Forgive the quality, I had to do it from somewhat further away as she always hides if I bring the camera too close to the tank. Wouldn't a tumor be less... well, see-through? You can pretty much see through the lump and it is redd...
- Sat Dec 12, 2020 10:29 pm
- Forum: Hospital
- Topic: Pea puffer lump
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2444
Re: Pea puffer lump
Did you ever resolve this issue? My puffer started out looking like that too but now the lump is so much larger that it scares me.
- Sat Dec 12, 2020 9:51 pm
- Forum: Hospital
- Topic: Dwarf Puffer with swollen chin
- Replies: 5
- Views: 862
Re: Dwarf Puffer with swollen chin
Poor guy! I think it's either a cyst or tumor. Not much you can do but keep him coomfortable. Is it possible that it could be somatic nematodes? That's something I read about in another forum post where someone else had a lump on their pufferfish's back. It's just that this bump didn't use to be th...
- Sat Dec 12, 2020 4:43 am
- Forum: Hospital
- Topic: Dwarf Puffer with swollen chin
- Replies: 5
- Views: 862
Dwarf Puffer with swollen chin
Hello, this has been an issue on my DP for a while now, many months but lately I noticed this growth on its chin has gotten bigger and it really worries me. Any information would be much appreciated. She still eats, though not as much, and is definitely more shy around me than she used to be. I've t...
- Sun Jun 02, 2019 9:46 am
- Forum: Brackish Puffers
- Topic: Where does your puffer sleep?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 12482
Re: Where does your puffer sleep?
My dwarf puffer slept in different places for a while when I first got it but it soon settled on sleeping on a cabomba leaf. It looks so adorable just nestled in the leaf haha. Unfortunately I broke my lily pipe a few days ago while cleaning it and had to replace it with the intake from a hob filter...
- Sun Jun 02, 2019 9:22 am
- Forum: Puffer Breeding
- Topic: male dwarf puffer behavior
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2548
Re: male dwarf puffer behavior
I don't know if we would be able to tell you exactly if that's what happening, though I just noticed this post was from sometime last year... did you ever find out if it was guarding eggs?
- Sun Jun 02, 2019 9:21 am
- Forum: Puffer Breeding
- Topic: Breeding Dwarf Puffers
- Replies: 20
- Views: 22151
Re: Breeding Dwarf Puffers
i'd like to breed as well but I am wondering how big of a tank I would need and how many puffers I would need as well. I read that having more than one female for one male is ideal so the female does not get tired out, but how true would this be if say I had one male and one female in a 15 or 20 gal...
- Sun Jun 02, 2019 5:56 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: All my puffer wants to do is eat...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 944
All my puffer wants to do is eat...
If it sees me looking at it it comes up to the glass and looks at me hoping I will feed it. If I am doing maintenance on the tank it will follow my tools hoping there is food. If I watch it just doing its thing in the tank it is observing the environment looking for food. I get that there isn't much...
- Sat Jun 01, 2019 7:32 pm
- Forum: Freshwater Puffers
- Topic: Does a lumpy stomach always mean internal parasites?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 711
Re: Does a lumpy stomach always mean internal parasites?
But up until a few days ago its stomach was never lumpy even after I'd fed it. It was always a smooth round shape even if I overfed it and it looked like it was about to balloon up (which only happened once lol)
- Sat Jun 01, 2019 8:34 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Overfeeding Puffers
- Replies: 198
- Views: 63511
Re: Overfeeding Puffers
My dwarf puffer eats a few frozen bloodworms (like seriously just 2 or 3) and its stomach bloats up like it is pregnant lol. I do feed it every day despite online articles saying only to feed it once every few days though just because it started out always fat and eating snails in my tank then about...
- Sat Jun 01, 2019 8:32 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Keeping GSP's entertained safely
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1132
Re: Keeping GSP's entertained safely
I had the same thought for my dwarf puffer. It's so inquisitive and always looking around the tank and the tank isn't some neverending river so I felt really bad... once I did put in a clear dish with some bloodworms at the bottom for it to kind of figure out how to eat it. The thing is you can't re...
- Sat Jun 01, 2019 8:30 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Dynamic Environments Help Fish
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15237
Re: Dynamic Environments Help Fish
You guys would be surprised at all the bare tanks shown in facebook groups... I really want to ask people why they would get a fish for a tank that's just all bare with just sand/gravel and like one little decoration in there.
- Sat Jun 01, 2019 7:03 am
- Forum: Freshwater Puffers
- Topic: Does a lumpy stomach always mean internal parasites?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 711
Does a lumpy stomach always mean internal parasites?
Hey guys, so I've had my dwarf puffer for about 3 weeks now and I noticed yesterday after feeding it that the right side of its stomach is actually a bit lumpy and weird looking. I was a bit paranoid when I first got it about it having parasites or even ich and monitored it closely. I even had a sca...
- Sat Jun 01, 2019 6:50 am
- Forum: Freshwater Puffers
- Topic: Can API general cure kill Nematodes and Detritus wiggly white worms?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1279
Re: Can API general cure kill Nematodes and Detritus wiggly white worms?
What exactly does API general cure get rid of? parasites?
- Wed May 15, 2019 9:08 am
- Forum: Hospital
- Topic: Is this ICH? How do I treat it?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 317
Is this ICH? How do I treat it?
Tank What is the water volume of the tank? 5 gallons How long has the tank been running? Since Feb 1, 2019 Does it have a filter? Yes Does it have a heater? No, but temperature is always between 25C and 30C What is the water temperature? Currently 26C What is the entire stocking of this tank? (Pleas...