Yeh I have been looking at a Tetratec Hydrometer on ebay, looks like a swing arm type of one.
BTW, what is the SG of freshwater?
New F8 puffer doesn't seem well
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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.
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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: New F8 puffer doesn't seem well
Is zero represented as 1.000 on the SG scale of things then because if FW was 0.000 and brackish for my F8 is 1.004 then that seems like quite a big difference (especially as it has been said that you should only increase the salinity by 0.002 at a time).
Just trying to get my head around this? Apologies if that is dumb question.
Just trying to get my head around this? Apologies if that is dumb question.
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Figure Eight Puffers -----Sold and or traded
Dwarf Puffers ------------Traded
Congo Puffer ------------Traded
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Re: New F8 puffer doesn't seem well
CORRECTIs zero represented as 1.000 on the SG scale
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Re: New F8 puffer doesn't seem well
Ah ha, I'm getting there slowly! Thanks.
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Re: New F8 puffer doesn't seem well
FW is 1.000.
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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Re: New F8 puffer doesn't seem well
You really won't be using that much marine salt for your tank, so it shouldn't cost too much. I've found, over here, that it pays to buy a bigger container rather than a smaller -- especially if you know you're going to use it regularly. 
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