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HOOTIE!!From "Hootie and the Blowfish" band

Thought I would let y'all know that Hootie is doing great! His colour is back, the fungus on his eye is almost gone now and he is hungry hungry hungry.
So good to have him greet me again.
YaY

Ciao!

Guess I'm gonna go ahead and use Melafix.
At least it's natural and safe.
Hope it works.
I'm sure the salt is helping too.
Ciao!

Hi, Hootie is doing much better. Swimming much better. Staying upright all the time now. Water parameters: PH 8.4 Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 10 I'm going ahead with another water change and add more instant ocean. I only added 3/4 c. last time to 30gal. tank. So no salinity even measures. I'm going...

My puffer is actually doing better this evening. I just checked on him and tossed in a couple snails, he didn't go for the snails but he did show interest in me, was able to swim upright and stay that way. He's at the bottom but still upright! Got new test kits and will do that right away and post t...

ok, 3:37 am and he is still kickin' (thank-you) I'm out of town today and I'll be picking up some new test kits while i'm out. About his eye, could it be pop eye and it just looks different to me because of what their eyes look like to begin with. I mean with it looking like there is a film over it....

Hey everyone, He's still sick. Finally noticed something ON him. Looks like his one eye has like a film over it? Also white spots on body but they have been there for a long time. I just assumed that they were a part of his appearance. These appeared while he was growing. They are very uniform over ...

Will check out the article. The tests are Nutrafin for the ph, nitrite, nitrate. PH is good till the end of 2008 and the other two till end of 07. Ammonia test is Tetratest, would have bought at the same time as others but do not see a exp. date on it. Do not remember when I bought them? Last year? ...

Hi, new to the forum. Need help. I have a green puffer. He is in a 30 gal. tank by himself. Has labored breathing, upside down right now. The water WAS totally bad. The nitrates were as high as the test indicates (110). The nitrites were 0, and the PH was 8. I admit that I have neglected him. I don'...