The Puffer Forum

Just had another good look at him. The pinkness has gone but his skin appears bobbly for want of a better word, it's not as smooth as it should be. He is still lethargic and no longer comes to me when I go near the glass, in fact he seems scared and swims away if I put my hands near.

Still looking lethargic but no worse. I'm not feeding today to keep ammonia down, tested this morning and it looks to be at 0 but I'm doing another 25% anyway. I'm beginning to think my other half did something wrong as he's evasive when I'm questioning but I'm not going to push it, could just be a ...

Thanks for that, I will do in future.

He's actually resting at the bottom now. I'm not going to feed him for a day or two to allow the bacteria time to catch up.

My other half said he did a 25% water change while I was away. God knows what happened but I have plenty of tests now

I hope not, I'm really scared how much it went to while I was away. I'll do another 25% tomorrow

Do you think this is an ammonia issue or could it be anything else?

God I hope so, he's definitely got a pink tinge. Do you think I can save him?

Oh yes I've thrown another bottle of quick start in to try and help the bacteria build up and obviously I gave the sand a good vac and picked up any plant debris when I did the water change.

My god I'm so upset right now. Maurice my little Figure 8 had been doing so well, the tank water was testing well. Completely clear for ammonia and nitrite using a liquid test kit. However the ammonia test kit ran out 3 days ago because I've been using it everyday I burned through it. Anyway fast fo...

Thanks, he's a little cutie!

I'll try get some more pics when there's better lighting.

As you can see, he sports a lot of 8s!

Hopefully this works OK, I just took them on my phone

I'm seriously considering getting a large tank for SAP too one day if I get on well with my Figure 8. Something about them all bombing about together is pretty cute and I like their hyper nature (although I think my F8 could probably give them a run for their money in the adhd department).