PH 7.8
Ammonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrate 0
sg 1.007
30 gal. bloodwarms, sy shrimp, krill ones a day. Tank runing for over a year
I'm writing to you again. My f8 is not eating I tried every suggestion that was given to me by you and still no results. My puff is not eating for about 6 days now it all started when I treated him for IP I soaked some bloodworm's in the med called gel-tek ultra cure px for internal parasites he did triad some and quit so now hes running away from food. I feed him with snails two, ones a week and bloodworm's, krill, shrimp every day.
What can I do ?
f8 not eating
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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.
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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Nick
- Former Staff Member
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- My Puffers: Mine:
GSPs - Shakespeare and Jillybean
F8 - Velvet
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DP - Emma Goldman
Narrow Lined Puffer - Ulrike - Location (country): Northeastern USA
- Location: Middletown, CT
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Re: f8 not eating
Try an earthworm, they spaz nicely, making them very tempting targets.
No matter how magnificent your successes or devastating your failures, the worlds' approximately 5 billion impoverished people could not possibly care less.
Re: f8 not eating
can I get this earthworm at lps ?
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Nick
- Former Staff Member
- Posts: 3231
- Joined: Sun Oct 22, 2006 8:47 pm
- My Puffers: Mine:
GSPs - Shakespeare and Jillybean
F8 - Velvet
My fiance:
DP - Emma Goldman
Narrow Lined Puffer - Ulrike - Location (country): Northeastern USA
- Location: Middletown, CT
- Contact:
Re: f8 not eating
LFS sometimes has them, bait shops are the best bet, and even walmart sells them for fishing in the sporting goods area, in season. you can use one from outside, _IF_ neither you nor any neighbors use fertilizers or pesticides.
No matter how magnificent your successes or devastating your failures, the worlds' approximately 5 billion impoverished people could not possibly care less.
Re: f8 not eating
OK Ive noticed that his teeth are too long. Tomorrow I will trim them, Ive read process in our library so I m ready
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Jase
- Mbu Puffer
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- Location: Montana
Re: f8 not eating
can you post pictures to make sure they need trimming. you don't want to put your puff through all that stress if it's not necessary. 
-Jase
edmlfc1 wrote:A house without a puffer is not a home.
Re: f8 not eating
hi, so our library states that for trimming procedure you need CLOVE OIL which I cant find. Ive been everywhere jewels pharmacy,CVS pharmacy,Walgreen's and mom & pap pharmacy no luck, what else can I use to colm him down
Re: f8 not eating
My friend got me clove oil that I was looking for and I did trim my puffers teeth I took about 1mm from upper and bottom jaw the whole process took me about 1min. The trimming was a success , he is well but I will see if hes able too eat again tomorrow. Now for it to not happened again I got couple Q. How many snails do you feed to the puffer? Now, when do you check your water parameters after or before water change?
, he is well but I will see if hes able too eat again tomorrow. Now for it to not happened again I got couple Q. How many snails do you feed to the puffer? Now, when do you check your water parameters after or before water change?