The Puffer Forum

Yeah...now its been working again since my first post, so about an hour almost.

Ok so, my Stars and Stripes Puffer has yet another problem. He is still in QT and was about to be put back into the main display but I have noticed that he is only using one gill. Like he is only breathing from one side. He is not gasping or anything, he seems normal, except the one gill is just &qu...

He ate again today and seems "normal". His tail has no more black and the slight tear in the middle has already healed up. He is back to fanning that big beautiful tail of his again! I have been testing the water every morning before work, then doing a water change every evening around 6, ...

Well he is eating well again. It was two and a half days in which he only ate a little bit. The black on his tail is completely gone now. The water params are: Amm. undetectable Nitrite Small traces I think but not really able to match it up on the chart (very low) Nitrate 15 I have been doing 50-75...

Well I hope he eats at least a little each day and in a week I will begin to raise the SG again. So in a week and a half, he should be back up to marine.

I always soak their food in garlic, so I have tried that. He actually did eat tonight but not nearly as much as normal. I was happy to see him eat at all though.

Yes he is still in hypo for ich. He has another week to go. Is that maybe linked to the not eating?

I have not been able to get any answers in my other thread for over a week now. Im sure some of you have read the other one and know my puffer was QT'd and treated for a bacterial infection on his tail. He has been treated for over a week now and the black is almost gone. I stopped the treatment yes...

I guess thats a no to those questions then... Update, Its been another week and his tail is much better. It only has a slight but if black on the tip. Im surprised after this long though, that its still there at all. So he has been medicated for over a week and two days ago, he stopped eating at all...

I was talking to a friend tonight and mentioned what had been happening with my puffer. He had the same thing happen with his puffers tail on two different occasions, both times when the puffer was being treated with hypo. Is there any way that during hypo there could be a cause for this? Some diffe...

I will take pics tonight. His tail fin is once again looking much better. Just black on the very back edge now. I am going to do two water changes a day instead of one and see if that helps with the water quality. I think I will finish up this treatment in the QT and then if its not all better, do b...

The sponge was in the hang on filter Im using for QT now...it was used on the side of the refugium. I had it there for an emergency like this (friends told me it was a good idea). The current params: Ammonia 0 Nitrite 30 Nitrate 10 But I just did a 50% water change. Before that there were traces of ...

The filter (sponge) was cycled in the sump of my display. Its there just to be used if needed for QT. I guess its been in the sump about 3 months. Anyways, he has been in QT with the medication for 5 days now. His fin looked great until this morning. It looks even worse all of a sudden. The black is...

I have been doing twice daily water changes on the sick puffers QT tank because I was getting a little bit of ammonia. He is still very stressed in the little 33G and I think I should move him back to the 90G QT and do baths instead. Only problem then, is catching him everyday, he really freaks out ...

Yes salinity was lowered for Hypo and I assumed that most of the nitrifying bacteria would have died off the sponge from the main tank.

Anyone have any advice on how to do the baths? How many are usually needed? Ect.

Thanks!