The Puffer Forum

In cases like this, I always add Melafix immediately. Not only is it good for skin irritations and wounds, but it seems to help fish that have been under stress quite a bit. I would imagine 5 hours of laying on a carpet would stress any fish! Glad to hear he's doing well, that's pretty impressive o...

It's now been 23 hours since i found it on the carpet yesterday, it seems very active and responsive. Eats his food like theres no tomorrow, darts away when i put my hand near the glass and chases my finger around when i put it in the water. I can't beleive how well he's doing after having been out ...

I've since removed the net and allowed the fish to move freely thinking it would settle at the bottom to rest but it hasn't. Instead it stays near the top of one corner, about a cm below the surface, totally still occasionally swimming towards the middle and then returing to the corner. It just stay...

groovitudedude wrote:It's a good thing you found him. Try to keep the puffer top-up (like he normally is) and IN THE TANK at all times during the process. Hope he survives.

Yeah, whenever i move the net around, he manages to stay upright and not turn upside down or on his side. Thats gotta be a good sign...

I woke up at about 11 this morning unable to find my fish. As the tank is in a dimly lit area, i turned on the light and found it motionless on the carpet. It took me a few moments to register what i was seeing and i immediately ran to the bathroom to locate my net. Still a bit groggy, i tried to pi...

Shakespeare definately does that - I think he is trying to get "over" the reflections into the rest of the room. More so than any other puffer in the tank, he makes a go every now and then of trying to explore the regions beyond the glass wall. Yeah, mine tries to jump up in the air as we...

That is very strange... Part of Shakespeare's "rounds" of his tank do include occasional breaches of the surface in his two favorite corners, but not as a continual behavior. Could he be bored with this tank? Yeah, i forgot to add, he would only do this when he was up against the glass or...

Last week i noticed my gsp going up and down the side of the tank and sticking his beak up above the water. My tank has been fully cycled for a long time so I didn't think much of it but after a while i did a water test, and the nitrates were a bit high. I did a water change to get all the parameter...

I'm sure they could. Just take the crayfish out if it hurts the fish or if the puffers look like they are eating too much.

I usually feed my fish freeze dried blood worms and the color changes still happen.

Does the color indicate anything? My puffer usually has pellet sized dark poo but sometimes its red.

I got the ectoparasite med because from what i understood at the time, they are good for the ilnesses which are superficial. Also, i wasn't sure about their antibacterial treatment since i know some do mess up the cycle. It seems to be working, six hours after i added some to the tank, i noticed tha...

yeah, it's probably got other chemicals in it that could harm my fish. Anyway i went out to get some metafix but there isn't a lot of places that have it here in hong kong so i went out and got this AZOO ectoparasite treatment but i don't think this is what i need...

If it contains tea tree oil, can't i just add tea tree oil directly in my tank? I have some lying around somewhere....

What do you use and why do some poeple say not to use carbon in a brackish tank? I hate carbon and never use it anyway but i was just wondering why it's not good for a brackish tank.