The Puffer Forum

No he never has done it before. He killed the plants by laying in it so much. Well one is still alive but not strong enough to hold him. Now he just hangs out on a rock. Do you think I should build a cave for him? I was thinking to get more and putting so co2 in the tank so the new plants would be s...

He is starting it from me again. Also I saw him eating flask food from the rasboras left over lol. Thank you for helping me Pufferpunk. Below is him eating a worm. Sorry the video isn’t the greatest I am not a good cameraman.

https://imgur.com/gallery/79gTEGt

Yes. Sorry the earthworms are live. My plan is I am going to leave him alone for a week more and let him keep eating live fish. Then when he gets his strength back up I will try to get that last air bubble out. A guy at the lfs said I could try giving him a salt bath but it sounds dangerous and coul...

He will only eat live fish. He will show no other interest in anything else worms shrimp krill etc

Yes, I did get air out of him I could not get all of it. Every time he sees me now he seems is very stressed.

I think it is air it could be food. I haven’t been really scrubbing my tank lately because I don’t want him to be stressed even more then he is. The only think he is liking it eat now is live and I don’t like that for number of reasons. Is there another way to get the air out besides burping him?

I was able to get more air out of him. He seem very stressed after I did it. I left him alone for a couple of days. Two days ago he ate the danio in there. He still can’t can’t the rasboras. I also put a golden shiner in there yesterday and he just ate it today. He left the head and I am surprise th...

I am posting a update I though he was doing better I did managed to get some air out. He still hasn’t got better actually seems a little worst. I don’t know what to do I really care for this guy. He has a weird bump in his stomach I don’t understand why he has it because he hasn’t ate in a month. Co...

I didn’t see anything out but after I did it. He moved around slowly around the tank then back on the plants where he likes to sit. I have fed him a worm in the past and heaped that sucker up. I will try tomorrow and give him some to see if he will eat it. If not I can try to do the air bubbles agai...

What kind of gloves should I use to pick him up with?

I am using the api freshwater master test kit.

He was on frozen krill when I first got him. From the lfs I guess he could have air in him. Maybe I will try the get air out of him. He does look kinda bloated. For not eating for a 3 weeks.

How would I know if you swallowed air? Last thing he ate was a minnow fish. He seems very stressed out and has been breathing heavy. My water change day is today so maybe that is a reason why it is up. I am not that good with colors when reading the test so I could o misread it.

I am sorry I looked back and it would be .1 ppm. It was late last me night

The tank has been running for a couple of years. Here of some pictures of him recently.

https://imgur.com/gallery/z0ZJewy

I have a hairy puffer that I got about 5 months ago. He has been acting strange. He hasn’t been eating I try to put food in and he won’t even look at it. I also try to get him to eat love fish and he won’t eat them either. So I have a couple of danios, rasboras and ghost shrimp In there and they hav...