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Unfortunately he passed about 30 minutes after posting. I really appreciate all your help trying to bring him back to good health. I am sad I was unable to help but I am glad he is no longer suffering. I wish I could walk away knowing what happened or what I could have done differently to help but t...

So I got him into a net and into a small container with tank water making sure it never was out of water. Dropped a bit of Melafix in and let him rest for about a minute. When I lowered him back into the tank, I thought it had killed him. He immediately sunk to the bottom, and was motionless for abo...

Yeah, not eating.. I've held some bloodworms in front with tweezers for about 4/5 minutes a few times with no success. Ended up just dropping them in front of him, the small one eventually finds them and eats them.

I haven't attempted that yet. How would you recommend I do it?

Hey PP, Just following up with an update. Temperature was lowered to 79F. Ich-X seems to have been effective over the weekend. I am no longer seeing any Ich on the puffer. I will continue dosing Ich-X for another 3/4 days as suggested on the bottle to make sure it's completely gone. Unfortunately, b...

Just turned the temp back down to 79. I was following what I saw in the Hospital section of the library and other things I had seen online. https://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/library/hospital/fwich/ I know they are BW but they were in FW when treatment began. Planning on doing a large water change...

It did finally eat today which could be a good sign of progress. It's hard to say if there has been improvement or not on the Ich side. I think I caught it fast enough before it's gotten bad so I don't have a "full body was covered and now it's less". It certainly hasn't gotten "worse...

SG is currently 1.002. Tank was fully FW before medication started. Is there any harm in mixing Melafix with the Ich X? Don't know if I should be attempting to fix the eye while also treating for Ich. Also, is there a reason for Ich-X over ParaGuard? I've been dosing for 6 of the 14 days so far. Jus...

I just grabbed this photo of it's tail: https://imgur.com/a/qUzcDrP Again, I REALLY appreciate the help, I don't mean to be annoying. I respect your opinion a lot. I suppose it could be sand, as it's white aragonite sand, but those have been there for a few days now. Just want to make sure I am not ...

There are a few spots on his tail fin. Were you able to see the Imgur images I posted?

Hi Pufferpunk, Do you think I should stop dosing with ParaGuard and just use higher temp and salt for the Ich? It doesn't seem like a severe case at this point and I am worried the severe eye cloudiness may be causing more stress in tandem with the ParaGuard than the Ich itself. I have raised the te...

I posted these to Imgur so you could see, I hope this helps: https://imgur.com/a/oH98FbT The spots look significantly worse in photos than they do in person. I can only see them when staring up close with lights turned on. I have been feeding live snails (Ramshorn), thawed frozen bloodworms, clams o...

Hello everyone, Hoping for some advice. I purchased 2 Figure 8 Puffers 8 days ago. They are in a 32g Fluval Flex that was setup as FW. This tank has been setup/cycled for a few months, originally was housing some smaller cichlids prior to moving them to my main tank and prepping for puffers. They ar...

After reading your reply and doing some more research. I think a single F8 might be the best bet. The conversion to SW sounds like fun but I agree a bigger tank would be better long term and I don't want to "expect" that I will be upgrading in the future (though I have been really digging ...

I am in the process of cycling a tank that was purchased with the intention of housing a single GSP for life. The tank is the Fluval Flex 32.5 (123L). It is the Freshwater version and currently cycled as a FW tank. I also have the 15 Gallon version next to it cycling to grow snails (Ramshorns) as we...