New Porcupine Puffer
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Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
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.
Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
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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crazedpuffer
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Re: New Porcupine Puffer
Aww I'm sorry!
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Sooner_Reefer
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Re: New Porcupine Puffer
Here are some pics of the happy healthy porcupine pufferfish. I'm going to move him to the 125g next weekend when I do the water changes. 
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Thank you. I was quite amazed at his color afterwards myself. Doing great, comes and greet me to get his mysis shrimp every morning and evening.yunachin wrote:He looks amazing!
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Re: New Porcupine Puffer
Looking good!
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Re: New Porcupine Puffer
That is excellent.Sooner_Reefer wrote:Thank you. I was quite amazed at his color afterwards myself. Doing great, comes and greet me to get his mysis shrimp every morning and evening.yunachin wrote:He looks amazing!
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Thanks for the compliments everyone. I'm very proud and glad of such a good recovery. Seems to be doing excellent and I think I hope he is this happy and healthy for many years to come. Now I just got to see how the 125g inhabitants are going to react to him. Well the king of the tank, the sailfin is going into QT so hopefuly the puffer will be accepted nicely.
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Re: New Porcupine Puffer
Who are his tankmates?Sooner_Reefer wrote:Thanks for the compliments everyone. I'm very proud and glad of such a good recovery. Seems to be doing excellent and I think I hope he is this happy and healthy for many years to come. Now I just got to see how the 125g inhabitants are going to react to him. Well the king of the tank, the sailfin is going into QT so hopefuly the puffer will be accepted nicely.
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Re: New Porcupine Puffer
Well my only concern is the sailfin tang.yunachin wrote:Who are his tankmates?Sooner_Reefer wrote:Thanks for the compliments everyone. I'm very proud and glad of such a good recovery. Seems to be doing excellent and I think I hope he is this happy and healthy for many years to come. Now I just got to see how the 125g inhabitants are going to react to him. Well the king of the tank, the sailfin is going into QT so hopefuly the puffer will be accepted nicely.
But here's my fish:
Porcupine Puffer
Foxface
Sailfin Tang
Juvinille Emperor Angelfish
2xClarkii Clownfish
2xGreen Chromises
Lawnmower Blenny
Coral Beauty Angelfish
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Re: New Porcupine Puffer
Nice variety. I had a problem with my Mata Tang being aggressive towards my Hawaiian Spotted Puffer but it subsided in time. Are your clownfish a breeding pair?
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Re: New Porcupine Puffer
Is that your QT?
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
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Re: New Porcupine Puffer
My sailfin became very mean towards my old porc. I had to give her away she was so bad to all my fish, sadly my porc died 3 days later.
Good to hear your puffer's got a healthy appetite!
Shelby won't touch anything that's not prawn, bloodworms or peas.
Good to hear your puffer's got a healthy appetite!
Shelby won't touch anything that's not prawn, bloodworms or peas.
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yunachin: I bought them to be a breeding pair but it usualy takes a couple years before they get on to breeding. They aren't realy a pair, but one definetly became the dominant female and the other is a male.
pufferpunk: Yeah that's my 20g high QT
flamesofifreet: We're going to be monitoring my sailfin tang. It used to be aggressive to my juv. emperor angel, but now it leaves it alone. So we'll see. If the tang gets out of control then it's out of there.
pufferpunk: Yeah that's my 20g high QT
flamesofifreet: We're going to be monitoring my sailfin tang. It used to be aggressive to my juv. emperor angel, but now it leaves it alone. So we'll see. If the tang gets out of control then it's out of there.
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My emp broke up all the fights that happened in the tank between my sailfin and others.
I have heard of quite a few people on RC who have the same problem with aggressive sailfins.
I have heard of quite a few people on RC who have the same problem with aggressive sailfins.
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Yeah they seem to be pretty aggressive. It used to be victim of my purple tang, and no it's gone so the Sailfin rules the tank. Hopefuly that'll change soon.flamesofifreet wrote:My emp broke up all the fights that happened in the tank between my sailfin and others.
I have heard of quite a few people on RC who have the same problem with aggressive sailfins.