Is she getting sick or am I paranoid?

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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)

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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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Is she getting sick or am I paranoid?

Post by edmlfc1 »

Not sure if Annabelle is getting that skin condition that matt77's puffer had and someone else's puffer. I noticed this last night, her skin color is fading. Here are some pictures I took this morning.

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Amm.0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 0-5, PH 6.8
Did a 25% water change yesterday and this is when I noticed it. I thought she was just upset from the water change but now i'm not sure. I have melafix on hand and I ordered pimafix this morning. Pimafix probally won't be here for 2 weeks because of the holidays. Before I start treating I wanted to get your suggestion. Am I paranoid or is she sick? Remember she just went through a mini cycle and was recently moved from a 29g to a 125g. I overfed her yesterday so she was lazy all day. I'll be skipping her feeding today. Right now she is swimming and comes out when I look at her, being curious. No heavy breathing but she has flashed once that I saw. Hoping I'm just being a paranoid mother. :lol:


Here is a picture of me acclimating her the first day I got her:
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After putting her in the 29g
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Re: Is she getting sick or am I paranoid?

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Here's a few more pics I just took, I also noticed black spots on the top of her. Not sure if you can really see them in the pictures.
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I think she looks fine. My fahaka goes from mottled to striped all the time.
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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Thanks PP, she keeps changing colors on me. :? One minute she will look blotchy and the next minutes she will darken up. She's totally different than my other puffers and I wasn't sure if this was normal. :lol: Not to mention the fact that she keeps burying herself and half the time I can't find her. If she don't stop giving me panic attacks I'm going to have to spank her tail fin. :D I figured out that the black spots I saw on her was actually black sand. :redface:

I can't wait until she grows a bit more and stops the disappearing act. :D
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Mine never burrowed.
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She's so cute. Maybe she's still getting used to the new tank, is this a new gravel color for her? She's probably just trying to blend in.
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Re: Is she getting sick or am I paranoid?

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In the 29g I was using aquatic soil, which was more of a rock substrate for planted tanks. In the new tank I'm using seachem's black onyx sand for planted tanks. I got a chance to measure her last night and she is now 5" from nose to tail. She ate this morning, then she went next to a log to take a nap. I swear she is sooooooooo lazy, nothing like Elvis or Chong. I guess I just need to get use to her habits also. This is my first lazy, all the time-color changing puffer.
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Re: Is she getting sick or am I paranoid?

Post by matt77 »

It looks more like she is trying to blend in with the black sand, if you can change it to a light sand colour and she will change to a sort of canary yellow with dark stripes. Mine still tries to bury her self now which is funny as she hits the bottom of the tank and only a quater of her is under the sand and the rest of her is stuck up right in the water
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