Amonia, nitrite, and nitrate are in order. Salt level is 1.026. PH is 8.0
My dogface puffer has been flashing his side against the sand and live rock. The sand will go everywhere when he does it against the sand. Then he will become reclusive and curl his tail. But whenever it is feeding time he comes alive and eats like a pig. Then will shortly go back to becoming reclusive.
I did catch him going to the bathroom yesterday. It looked quite disgusting, like diarea. Brown liquidy goo and then some hard plumps come out.
dogface puffer acting strange
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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.
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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Re: dogface puffer acting strange
Please answer the other Qs above in red.
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!"
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Re: dogface puffer acting strange
Sorry abut that. He is in a 55 gallon tank along with a friendly gsp. They get along great. My dogface is about 5 inches and my gsp is about 2 inches. I understand I will need a large tank soon and I am working on it. I do weekly 15% water changes. I use r/o water with instant ocean salt.
I use 3 koralia 1 power heads. 2 heaters set at 79. canister filter with media taken out except polishing pad, filter pad, and carbon, also added live rock. I have 60lbs of live rock and 60lbs of live sand. 216watt t5 lighting. I have done no changes to the tank recently.
It has been established for about 3 months. It was cycled with live rock live sand and 2 damsels.
I feed once a day. He eats mussels, clams, oysters, frozen shrimp, ghost shrimp and the occasional crayfish (as caught on video).
I use 3 koralia 1 power heads. 2 heaters set at 79. canister filter with media taken out except polishing pad, filter pad, and carbon, also added live rock. I have 60lbs of live rock and 60lbs of live sand. 216watt t5 lighting. I have done no changes to the tank recently.
It has been established for about 3 months. It was cycled with live rock live sand and 2 damsels.
I feed once a day. He eats mussels, clams, oysters, frozen shrimp, ghost shrimp and the occasional crayfish (as caught on video).
Re: dogface puffer acting strange
quick pics for reference of the little guy.
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Re: dogface puffer acting strange
I don't see any parasites on him but with the paler puffers it's hard to tell. It wouldn't hurt to treat for IPs though. Treat them both.
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!"