Green Spotted Puffer Fish

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One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.

Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
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tine
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Green Spotted Puffer Fish

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Hi All,

Im new to the forum and puffers did my research today because one of my puffers died.

got the 2 puffers for valentines day from my boyfriend.

Called the one valen and the other tine hehe :) but now valen is dead and I don't want tine to go the same way......

I bought a new tank but put them in one of my smaller gappy tanks that where already cycled in order to give the new tank some time to cycle but after 1 day of them in the small tank I noticed their colour fading to black so on the 3rd day of having them I put them in the new tank.

The same night one of the puffers started breathing heavy and then started to swim out of control and do backflips all over the tank. he was dead the next morning that was valen.

now I have tine left. I did a 50% water change this afternoon got drops that said it puts good bacteria in the tank and got a plant for the nitral.

I don't know what more I can do to keep this beauty alive. im going to get marine salt next week and start to change the fresh water to a salt water tank because apparently the green spotted puffer which is what I have are salt water fish.

any ideas on how to save this little guy. I have a heater at 28 c and filter and gravel and hiding places and a plant and a thermometer. plz help I don't have a testing kit so I don't know what is wrong. I thought it was the tank size but the other guy valen died anyway after moving him to the big uncycled tank.

thank you
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Re: Green Spotted Puffer Fish

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How large is this tank? See if you can get your water tested by the LFS. I'm not familiar with Quickstart--can you get Safestart in your country? Add it directly to his filter.

What size is this tank?
BW mixing: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=19348

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tine
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Re: Green Spotted Puffer Fish

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Hi My tank is 60 litres
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Re: Green Spotted Puffer Fish

Post by tine »

Good Morning,

Tine is doing much better I do 20/50% water changes daily with 1gram per litre marine salt mix and he's colour has regained to normal this morning and I think he ate too much hehe* belly nice and fat.
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