Green Spotted Puffer HELP!!!!

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1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.

2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.

3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)

4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.

5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.

We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.

While you wait for assistance:
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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Greenspot
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Green Spotted Puffer HELP!!!!

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Hi

Please please please can someone help me I have four Green Spotted Puffers that I have had now for 6 - 7 years. They have been cheeky and lively and so much fun. They are in a tank on their own as they always have been since I got them. The tank is 150 gallons and I have been slowly increasing the salinity as they age as I have read that they travel to saltier waters as they age. The salinity is at 1.015. And the temperature has been maintained at
26.5C. The ammonia, nitrites and nitrates are 0, and I do a weekly water change as I always have. They also have a varied diet of snails to help keep their beaks in check they also have bloodworm and mussels. Just lately one of them has been sinking to the bottom on its side with its tail curled around I am thinking it could be swim bladder but I am unsure and can only hope it’s not more serious. I love these little guys so much and I would do anything to help it. Please can you advise me. I am so worried about the little dude.
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Thanks in advance

Amanda
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Re: Green Spotted Puffer HELP!!!!

Post by Pufferpunk »

Is he always dark like this? What test kits are you using? You should definitely be showing some nitrate.
It seems they all should be adults by this age. Full SW is recommended for them.
Puffers don't have a swim bladder.
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