The Puffer Forum

Hello again It's been a sad day but things were coming to a head. Over the last couple of days we had to make some tough decisions. We tried force feeding our porc but he got so stressed and was weak to begin with it was not working. After talking to a specialist vet at Tuft's medical center we took...

Wow Pufferpunk That's a crazy link! Great story... the amazing thing is I live in Boston near Tuft's, and I had no Idea about the Tuft's Vet clinic for fish . I'm going to call them tomorrow, see what they say. How do you go about force feeding porc puffs, with tubes? He's in his 75 gl hideing, I ha...

We're using Kent Marine Iodine, His mouth looks bad today, small white growths on one side . He is starving, he wasn't eaten anything substantial in three weeks . Last week he atleast expressed interest in food . He just hides in his cave now, with no interest in food. The growth on his mouth concer...

Well our poor porc puff doesn't look so good today. we put some iodine in the 75 gl today but when he came out to swim he had almost like little white growths on the side of his mouth. When he swim's he also seems to "cough" allot un related to any piece of food. We'll try more iodine tomo...

hi again- if our puffer has lockjaw and i treat him with iodine how much would you recomend using in the tank? i have him back in his normal 75 gallon now because his tail looks all better, but i do still have the hospital tank (30 gallons) up and running. would you suggest putting iodine in the hos...

what will iodine do if it's not truely lock jaw? i was under the impression that lock jaw was from feeding him an unvaried diet, or from only feeding him freeze dried crill, or is it just vitamin deficency?

That's my worry, given the fact he hasn't eaten in so long. I wouldn't know how to treat a porc puff with lockjaw. With there spikes and such, seems like it would be very difficult to handle, and given his rather fragile health at present.

It's tough to say. Sometimes he will try to bite food directly and it will sort of pop out of his mouth.Sometimes he will go after food and miss it altogether or give up on it as he approches. He was even spitting water at us last night but he did not eat when we placed food in the water. He did suf...

Hello So our porc puffs has been in his hospital tank seven days now. His tail has appeared to have cleared up completly. The edges are still frayed, and his tail hasn't grown back but he fans it, and it no longer appears to be sensitive or bothering him. Yet he still has not eaten. We tried krill, ...

Hello Again So our porc puffers been in his hospital tank treated with fugus eliminator for three and a half days now. I've been doing daily checks for ammonia, nitrates,nitites, etc. everythings cool on that front. I must say his tail is looking much better, the white growth and redness are gone. H...

So after a few days and many visits to the LFS, we've got meds ( jungle fungus eliminater, melafix) and a hospital tank with cycled water running. I got the jungle brand fungus eliminator after some searching and some questioning from the fish store owner who was dubious about it's use in SW. we jus...

Hey Thanks For your quick reply Jager Going to get jungle fungus eliminator this after noon. I was thinking I do have a 55 gallon that's been sitting empty the last two years. Could I avoid doing the slow teperature raise that I'd have to do with the old 30? if I clean out the 55 and use it as hospi...

First of all thank you for the valuable in formation on your site. I have porc puffer with tail rot, I read a previous posting about a porc puffer with no tail but it didn't answer all my questions. About 3 months ago while keeping a snow flake eel and porc puffer togther I noticed that the eel had ...