The Puffer Forum

I am not an expert in this area, but I'll hazard an answer based on experience with two fish I had. New fahakas tend to be stressed when they are first brought home. It took mine about 3 days at least before they ate anything. Sometimes they would give up chasing something if they couldn't get it in...

Thanks, rocco. But that's assuming the next fish to be housed in there will be brackish. I suppose I can still make periodic water change in the meantime to reduce the salt content, right?

I will like to thank everybody here for the help and concern this past week. My ceylon puffer just died a while ago and everyone in the family is really heaving a sigh of relief because we really can't see how it was going to make it anyway. Staying alive the way it did was really painful to watch. ...

Sure, we have vets :) Not sure if they have experience with fish though. I am tempted to order antibiotics off eBay, though I wonder if they will come on time. Honestly speaking, I am pretty impressed with the resilience of this fish. Man, I am not sure I would hold up as well if I were as sick as i...

Thanks. But oh bother. I just found out that LFS here in Singapore are forbidden by law to sell fish antiobiotics ... Good grief ... now I have to find another solution for this problem if it exists. Melafix was working quite well for the first couple of days btw. It did save some of the tail fin fr...

Yes, that's right, the skin is peeling off. There were what looked like blisters, and then, when they burst, there was broken skin. Did I add anything with copper? Probably not ... unless it was in the Ich med that I added before but didn't know it.

What antibiotics should I use, rocco?

Sigh ... more problems now .... With Melafix, the fin rot seems under control. But then there is this whitish band that is spreading from the base of the tail up. I thought it might be fungus, so I added Pimafix too. But that hasn't helped. The poor guy has stopped eating. Any ideas? http://i15.phot...

Thanks, guys So it really isn't much different from what I am doing now already. I just wasn't aware how much salt you can dissolve in water before it hits saturation point.

I am sorry if this seems like a dumb question. How do you guys prepare the brackish water for water change? How do you keep all that water aside to do the water change? We can't just add the salt undissolved into the tanks, can we? So what's the method?

Okay, I asked the lady at the LFS about aragonite sand and she had no idea what I was talking about. They do have what they call "coral sand" though, which they use for their marine tanks. Would that work?

Thanks, Rocco.

The SG is still 1.002. It hasn't been pass the one week mark since I last upped the SG so I haven't increased it any further yet. I'll up it by another 0.002 the next time.

Thank you. Actually, some of his buddies are stll in the LFS now and they all seem to have this sunken belly thing. I picked this guy because he was the most responsive. He tried to bite my finger when I teased him :) Anyway, his tail fin is not looking any better today. I would really like to scoop...

Ok, I'll remember that and wait till he grows bigger. So far none of my puffers have survived beyond their current tanks. Oh yeah, he doesn't look thin here. I stuffed it just a little while (and the two days preceding that) before taking that picture. He did look thinner in that pic with the sunken...

Thanks for the input. The tank is 2 feet by 1 1/2 by 1 1/2. As far as available space in the house in concerned, that's all I can do for it for the time being. I think according to the care sheet, volume-wise the tank is just about ok.

Thanks, rocco.
Here's a shot of the tank:



So how deep should the sand be?