The Puffer Forum

he's not gone, yet. he's in for recoveriery. if he gets better he hopefully coming home

i did search and came up with minimal info. we brought him to the closest thing the fish store. his tank mates were a little too eager to try and eat him. they munched on his tail and dorsel fins already, so if he transitions back into the stores h2o then stess wise he'll be better off and if the un...

ok tonight he's not looking good at all! nothing is helping this poor fish. his breathing is labored and he has positioned himslef ontop of a loose rock on the bottom of the tank, with pain in his eyes. help!

2 triggers (niegger, rectagulas) and a tomato clown, and a crab.

we are not sure. before he got the bump he would beg at the surface of the tank. we are hopping he will be able to expell the air. and with him puffing twice (that we saw) in two days, maybe he's trying to expell the air himself but each time he has puffed he has pointed him head down. today he's pu...

hes been bobbing around at the serface. but yesterday after he puffed he was lying on the bottom of the tank and today he's moved himself into a hole in the rocks.

we are going to do it tomorrow only b/c the porc has puffed today and yesterday. should we worry about ourselves getting poked with his spikes?

he has actually already puffed since the hump has appeared. he is not acting as he usually does and is not eating. I add vitamins in my tank anyway so he is getting some (though not enough) nutrition. He is in a ninety gallon tank and is only about 5 inches long.

we have a porccupine puffer that has a promanate hump on the right side of his bak. we do not know what it is, we have tryed antibiotics with no results. any help in what the hump is and what we can do we don't want to be inhumane but he is our pet and we want to make him better if possible. -90 gal...