The Puffer Forum

Nothing of that sort can be seen. His mouth looks normal, it's not inflamed to the point where I can't see the inside of his mouth [but I don't see anything moving in there]. It looks like the base of his bottom fin [I don't know the technical term for it :oops:] is kinda opaque, not completely tran...

I've checked and rechecked- he's showing no signs that anything is wrong except for the skinniness and swollen lower lip [it looks like he's not breathing because of the inflammation, but he is by watching his gills]. Staring at him for about 10 minutes, I've noticed he doesn't use his tailfin at al...

Yup, I did! I was considering to just switch filters altogether but I thought against that. But now it seems I'll have to hunt for a new tank... For the first 6 months I was using some sort of liquid to create brackish water conditions [it specified for cichlids and other brackish water fish] but af...

Yes, I'm afraid I just did that in an act of being paranoid. Unfortunately I'm limited to space, so I took an available tank and placed him in there. He seems to be more active though, though still not eating, so I'm happy it didn't affect him negatively. As for the tank, before I had bought these F...

Hm.. I'm not a new member but I had to re-sign up... interesting. Anyway... I have 3 F8 puffers. One of them however, seems to be acting sickly; with that said, I'm not sure if I'm just being paranoid. I noticed a complete change in behavior yesterday. I've had these guys for a little over a year. H...