The Puffer Forum

I'm not at home anymore but I'm weirded out. My grandma fed puffy a worm over a month ago....I don't think a worm would live that long under water? Also the blood worms were frozen....so I'm really confused. I'm not going anywhere near the tank.... I think I might just get my grandma to empty the ta...

So my puffer died over a month ago RIP PUFFY from what appeared to be parasites. I had put two snails in there for him to eat and he never ate them before he died. I haven't been at home much (been at my boyfriends) and came home a few days ago. The snails are still alive, but right next to the snai...

Hi guys, Recently my beloved Puffer passed away after being very sick with parasites. He died Friday and was removed from the tank tonight. There only two snails in the tank right now. I want to give the tank a good cleaning before I put gold fish in it (I don't have it in me to lose another Puffer ...

When I got him out of my boyfriends tank he was very sick and skinny. I tried so hard to keep him alive, but he just would not eat. I'm so mad at myself.

I did a 50% water change last night and he was swimming around a bit so I thought that he was for sure getting better because he spent so much time swimming around. The water was off a degree at first so I was so mad at myself when I put it in- but it heated up within a few minutes because of the ta...

Okay. I will go again with distilled water for now. He was up earlier and was swimming around for 20 minutes so I think that is a good thing??? I got a syphon and everything I'm ready to get Puffy better. The guy said the copper content was high and it was a bad thing- he was the guy at the store wh...

Or maybe I'll do a 60 or 70% water change tonight since I didn't do one earlier today. Oh my god this is so stressful. I have you guys telling me to do two a day and I have other people telling me to do one every three days. So many people are telling me different things but I trust you guys more so...

Okay so what do I do then? If my tap water has lots of copper and distilled water doesn't have the proper elements in it, which is the better pick??? I asked for used sponges, they didn't have any. I'm in a huge rush but I'll do a 50% water change tonight. Do you guys have any suggestions for good b...

I've just been getting bottled distiled water...is that the right choice? And then water conditioner. Because of the copper content I really did not want to test it and make him more sick. Please tell me I made the right decision? I also got some bacteria stuff to put in the tank to get it cycled. I...

It is raining today, so maybe I'll get my grandma to feed him one while I am out (way too scared of them) I haven't done a water change yet today I have to go get some water conditioner for him. I didn't want to even risk the tap water so I bought Puffy Jugs and jugs of bottled water (he is very spo...

So puffy is still alive this morning. I just found him swimming around trying to scratch himself. I put some more medicine in the water. But his stomach looks severely sunken in. Apparently he did eat a worm yesterday as one was put in the tank and was nowhere to be found an hour later. Should I try...

I called home again. Apparently the worm is nowhere to be found in the tank. I have to do a water change tonight and I hope to god he ate the worm. If he didn't and I run into that worm I'm going to have a panic attack. I hope he ate it. He looks super anorexic. I'm going to spoil him so much if he ...

I'm at work right now so I can't. But I bought him a cave and I saw a bunch of white stringy things flaoting off of it and some dancing in the water like you described.
I washed off the cave properly yesterday too before putting it in....

I read about IP's and apparently when your puffer poops you'll see the parasites coming out of his bum. I saw a bunch of clear stringy things floating in the water. Does that mean maybe the medication is working?!?!!?!?!!? I did my last water change last night at 3am and will do one tonight around 1...

Anyways if he is still around on Friday I'll get him a 29 gallon for the meantime...and I'll keep medicating. I'll get some used filter/media sponges and maybe I'll see if there is some drift wood or plants tehy can sell me from a healthy tank and I can put those in my tank? I've been doing water ch...