The Puffer Forum

well after I got home from work yesterday most of the little spots have fallen off, the little guys came from freshwater so I really hope that the life cycle of the ich is stopped due to the salinity before they can reproduce and infect everything in the tank. From the research I've done if it is fo...

hi and thank you for the reply, I tried to get a picture but it they didn't come out good enough to post, I think its ich just because they look like little specs of salt, I'm not sure how to tell the difference yet since I've had them for so short a time (and they're delightful btw).

Hello I got two figure 8 puffers for my 55 gallon brackish water tank (currently sg is reading 1.009) they were in freshwater before I got them and somehow I didn't see the few tiny salt like specs on them maybe 5 or 6 per fish, used the drip method to acclimate them to the salinity in the tank and ...