Hello from Singapore
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 2:13 am
Hello all,
I am from Singapore and for the first time keeping a predatory carnivorous fish. Two tiny Indian dwarf puffers in this case. I will have to start my first post also with few questions
I had got my first dwarf puffer roughly 2+ weeks ago. And I made a rookie mistake. I put it in my 20G tank with Angel fish and GBRs for 2 days before moving it to a cycled 3G tank(it was instant cycled as I had media and filter running on another tank, just had to seed it, I use sand substrate also from my established tank), where it stayed for a week and a half and this Sunday I moved it to a 7G tank along with one more dwarf puffer, I got over the weekend.
Both my dwarf puffers are active. The one I got first is slightly smaller in size to the new one. Now here are the problems
1) I have never seen any of them eat, Do you think, the first one could have lasted without eating anything for 2weeks or more? I have tried Tubifex worms and did not see them eating. I left it there and taken out what was not spread out after 30minutes or so. I also added a ramshorn snail 2weeks ago. Now that snail has become quite big and still is not eaten. I did put small amount of dried blood worms also once in a while. Not sure they have been eating when i was not around. My tank parameters are Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate a color between 10 and 20, PH 7.4.
2) I did not know about the massive issue with internal parasites in dwarf puffers. The fish came from a LFS store which I know very well. But not sure about the sources of their dwarf puffers. As I have seen these fishes never eat, they could be probably having internal parasites too right? If so, Would I have introduced them to my 20G tank also already? I do not even know what medicines we here in Singapore for treating IP. My puffers are still very active comes to the front of the glass then swims in some kind of wave motions. Both of them swim 3-inches apart most of the time.
3) I have seen posts to look for sunken belly to diagnose IP. But I do not even know what is considered as sunken. I also used my fish net across my 3 tanks, which I used to handle the these DPs. Now I am really worried that, i would have passed something to other fishes in the other two tanks. What to look out for? If I introduced IPs to my angel fish-GBR tank, how long before I see fish sick?
I am from Singapore and for the first time keeping a predatory carnivorous fish. Two tiny Indian dwarf puffers in this case. I will have to start my first post also with few questions
I had got my first dwarf puffer roughly 2+ weeks ago. And I made a rookie mistake. I put it in my 20G tank with Angel fish and GBRs for 2 days before moving it to a cycled 3G tank(it was instant cycled as I had media and filter running on another tank, just had to seed it, I use sand substrate also from my established tank), where it stayed for a week and a half and this Sunday I moved it to a 7G tank along with one more dwarf puffer, I got over the weekend.
Both my dwarf puffers are active. The one I got first is slightly smaller in size to the new one. Now here are the problems
1) I have never seen any of them eat, Do you think, the first one could have lasted without eating anything for 2weeks or more? I have tried Tubifex worms and did not see them eating. I left it there and taken out what was not spread out after 30minutes or so. I also added a ramshorn snail 2weeks ago. Now that snail has become quite big and still is not eaten. I did put small amount of dried blood worms also once in a while. Not sure they have been eating when i was not around. My tank parameters are Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate a color between 10 and 20, PH 7.4.
2) I did not know about the massive issue with internal parasites in dwarf puffers. The fish came from a LFS store which I know very well. But not sure about the sources of their dwarf puffers. As I have seen these fishes never eat, they could be probably having internal parasites too right? If so, Would I have introduced them to my 20G tank also already? I do not even know what medicines we here in Singapore for treating IP. My puffers are still very active comes to the front of the glass then swims in some kind of wave motions. Both of them swim 3-inches apart most of the time.
3) I have seen posts to look for sunken belly to diagnose IP. But I do not even know what is considered as sunken. I also used my fish net across my 3 tanks, which I used to handle the these DPs. Now I am really worried that, i would have passed something to other fishes in the other two tanks. What to look out for? If I introduced IPs to my angel fish-GBR tank, how long before I see fish sick?