The Puffer Forum

Just wanted to make an update.

He is now fully recovered, and look healthy as ever:)

As I started raise the salinity he got better an better, also regular feeding did the trick.

No I mix it in the water, he said that is wasnt specific for internal parasites, but there would be a good chance that it could work on that to. anyway this shouldnt harm the fish even if it didnt cure him so thats why I decided to give it a test. The product is eSHa 2000. It is a 3 day cure and I a...

I got another cure for him that I got from another lfs. added it yesterday, and today he kept the food much longer than before, I have feed them with the red mosquito larva, frozen artemia, snails and some red cherry shrimps. But he almost scared me to death today, when i was given them some food th...

So I went back to my LFS and told them about the problem, he gave me a bottle of tetra medica general tonic. can I treat them with this?

http://uk.tetra.de/tetra/go/BCE17AF27E9 ... lang_id=20

Thanks for your answers. so the species sign at the LFS was wrong "again"... But when I compare the two species I clearly see the difference. So I will remove the barbs back to their FW tank. and slowly raise the salinity to abot 1.015. have to get me one of those Refractometers I fed them...

So I finally got myself some T.Fluviatilis. (2 of them) So far they live in freshwater as they did that at my LFS, I am going to drip-acclimate them in to brackish asap. With them I have 5 tiger barbs as i read that these two goes well togheter, and the barbs can be converted to brackish without any...