The Puffer Forum

Hi i living in south korea and i keeping wild congo schoutedeni puffer.
I have some question about this fish.
i have some problem with my fish.
He came to my tank in 5 days ago.
He didnt it anything
I tried to feed something like that frozen blood warm, live shrimp, ramshorn snail.
But he didnt eat anything.
And he became skinny every day.
Can you help me?

How big is the tank? Is it just the 1 puffer? What are the water parameters?

Size-60.45.45
Filter-eheim2217+2215/eheim bottom filter
26℃
6 schoutedeni puffers in similer size
7 baby coridoras
3plecos(L121)
Ph : 7.2
TDS : 110

Another puffers are eat very well!

Oh gosh, that makes your tank around 30 gallons. Only barely big enough for 2 puffers ONLY (no other fish). My guess is the overstocking is seriously stressing them out.

What are your water parameters as far as ammonia, nitrite & nitrate?
How EXACTLY did you cycle this tank?
What order were the fish added?

Along with the suggestions above, if they are wild caught it may have parasites.
I agree with pufferpunk, you should look into a larger tank for the fish. The puffers get to be 4 inches in length and are very messy, which will be awful for your water quality.

Realize that this is an older thread, but in case this helps, I have 6 schoutedeni in a 125g, and now that I've has them for awhile, would go even bigger if I could on tank size.

I have a 46 gallon bowfront with one schoutedeni and a handful of tetras,,i was wanting to put another schoutedeni in there
maybe I better just stick with one