I just have a quick question about my new Baileyi puffer.
As you know, He/She has been in his/her new home since yesterday.
He/she is just lying on the bottom of the tank (normal i know) but seems to be breathing really heavily with a dark belly. Yesterday he/she was semi active swimming round the tank and then resting on the bottom with a light belly.
Ive tested the water:
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrate - not tested
he/she is in a 25 gallon tank.
The tank should be a fully cyled tank as i got it from my bro who has jsut moved the fish out, altho i did add bactinettes just in case (uk version of bio spira)
Is this normal? should i be worrying? is it just settling in to a new tank? He/she hasnt eaten anything yet.
baileyi breathing heavy
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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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plurmaster
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Re: baileyi breathing heavy
Some puffers tend to change colors depends on mood and substrates. My arrowhead changes color all the time. SOme of my puffers breath heavily right after they eat. They would just lay down for awhile but next day back in action again. Did you just feed him/her? And please check nitrates
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messy_da_legend
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Re: baileyi breathing heavy
Mine has a light belly, but does breathe heavily when out swimming. When he goes back and lies down his breathing slows again. I haven't ever seen mine with a dark belly though :S
Tom
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Redspotter
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Re: baileyi breathing heavy
Mine has make be believe for several times he's dead. Sometimes by hanging in a plant breathing heavily, sometimes for lying on his side with no move at all not even his gills.
It happened to me that I panicked and started with a water change right away, as soon as I put the hose in his tank you became active again, splashing around.
It happened to me that I panicked and started with a water change right away, as soon as I put the hose in his tank you became active again, splashing around.
Tetraodon fluviatilis: Indy - Monotrete Miurus: Owia - Monotrete Baileyi: Pjotter - Tetraodon sp: Pumba - 2x T. cutcutia - 2x T. biocellatus
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indie
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Re: baileyi breathing heavy
I did think he was dead this morning.. he was face down in a plant and not moving! Then he suddenly got up and started swimming like nothing was wrong! I think im learning pretty quickly with him not to worry about lack of movement! 
He hasn eaten yet, but we'll see!
He hasn eaten yet, but we'll see!
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Pufferpunk
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burrfish
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Re: baileyi breathing heavy
Is he dead or isn't he?
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
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"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
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indie
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Re: baileyi breathing heavy
hi pp. that post was the day before. The next day he really was dead 