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I have not fed him Krill, because I have readt that about puffers.
I feed him blood worms and FD baby shrimp and Live gost shrimp.

I could not get a good pic and the videos I took would not load.
So I put them on You Tube.

http://youtu.be/MJ22GuqT0F8

http://youtu.be/5mcQZCqpVDo

I hope you can see the discoloration on the left side of his face. It's kinda pink and maybe swollen.

That's a figure 8 you don't need to trim his teeth, just give him snails a few times a month no need to put him through the stress of clipping them. Also did you ever treat him for internal parasites he looks pretty skinny.

I'm sorry, I had you mixed up with another poster, who fed their puffer krill.
I'd start using marine salt for the BW & use Melafix for his swollen mouth.

I never fed him krill. I had read that it could be harmful.
He ate Freeze dried blood worms and live ghost shrimp.

Update: He has passed. And I did discover that his jaw was broken. I have no idea how that hapened.

MAB wrote:I never fed him krill. I had read that it could be harmful.
He ate Freeze dried blood worms and live ghost shrimp.

Update: He has passed. And I did discover that his jaw was broken. I have no idea how that hapened.

Sorry for your loss

I've seen my puffer freak out before...and run full speed repeatedly into the glass. I had turned off his light at an odd time of the day.

Thankfully, he was ok. That is probably what happened. Something must have spooked him.

I've heard if an Oscar doing something similar, except his injury was that his insides came out of his anus.

Poor fella...

So sorry you lost him