The Puffer Forum

He doesn't appear interested in people at all anymore, he just hovers in the corner of the tank and he didn't even want to eat tonight.

What's worse is that I'm going to be leaving tomorrow morning and I'll be gone until Monday night. Is there anything I can do at this point?

He isn't "pacing" -- he's just hanging out in a corner of the tank or laying down in one spot. He'll get a little excited to eat (and he does eat) but he seems more lethargic than usual. Perhaps it's boredom, I mean that makes sense, but what do I do about it? I mean I thought I wasn't sup...

After an hour or so, and even with some more people over he seems really lethargic now. I'm actually worried at this point. Hopefully he still wants food, I'll try that in a bit.

1) Water parameters (picture is attached in case there is any question about liquid test kit color comparisons) pH 8.0 Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate looks like 10ppm, maybe a little more, not quite 20 ppm salinity 1.023 SG Temperature 78.4 F 2) Tank info: 20G high quarantine tank. This porcupine is th...

Video of the new guy, the audio doesn't really pertain to the forums, though.

I linked in my last post

I'm assuming you read my blog post about the move? That explains a lot about how I did it. The move is normally a two-hour drive, but there was a big snow storm that day so it took longer than that. I would have liked to get it all done in one day, but as I wrote in the post that didn't happen becau...

I don't have the puffer yet. I'd like to only feed frozen food but I can give live RCS if it becomes necessary.

I think I did a while ago, but not last night. It's been a week or so.

I took a couple of terrible pictures on my phone of the fish in the LFS that I'm probably going to get...

http://www.adamhorton.com/files/flog/puffer1.jpg

http://www.adamhorton.com/files/flog/puffer2.jpg

After reading these articles, I think I'll de-worm once I get the new puffer, by including it with food. I'd prefer a proactive treatment and it seems these aren't very harmful if they aren't necessary. I'm excited to get a puffer, but unfortunately it's taking two days for nitrites to get back to z...

Great, thanks for the links. I'll read these tonight when I get a bit more time. I've learned the hard way that if you don't do things right now, you end up paying for it later on. I frequent aquariumadvice.com for a lot of stuff but they really couldn't answer puffer-specific questions so I came he...

Thanks for your response. You said there's no reason to stress out a healthy puffer -- here's my reservation about that: I've QTed three tangs in my life, and the two times I waited until I saw signs of ich to start hyposalinity treatment, I lost a tang because of it and I wish I had just done a pre...

Hello. I have a 150G saltwater tank and I'm planning to add a puffer fish to it in the near future. If you have any questions about the tank, you can look at this page. The information here is up-to-date. http://www.adamhorton.com/flog/?page_id=153 I'm pretty sure I want to get a porcupine puffer, t...