new puffer, need help with him
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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.
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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rocky23
- Puffer Fry
- Posts: 29
- Joined: Mon Apr 18, 2011 10:34 am
- Gender: Male
- My Puffers: diodon holocanthus/ porcupine pufferfish
- Location (country): United Kingdom, Leicester
- Location: United Kingdom, Leicester
Re: new puffer, need help with him
don't know why it's not worked but if you copy and paste the url link then you should be able to watch it
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rocky23
- Puffer Fry
- Posts: 29
- Joined: Mon Apr 18, 2011 10:34 am
- Gender: Male
- My Puffers: diodon holocanthus/ porcupine pufferfish
- Location (country): United Kingdom, Leicester
- Location: United Kingdom, Leicester
Re: new puffer, need help with him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVi-TU9nft4[/youtube]
don't know if it's going to work now, if not can anyone tell me how you do it.
don't know if it's going to work now, if not can anyone tell me how you do it.
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Black Widow
Re: new puffer, need help with him
The best way to post pics on this forum is via bbcode but you have to first UPLOAD your pics to either imageshack or photobucket.com as these will give you an url to a given pic youve uploaded.
So for e.g. this pic here I have uploaded on my Photobucket :
has the URL: http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s196 ... 1303870422, once you have an URL (internet address) for your pic you then have too place image tags on either side of it before the image will be posted.
The image tags are these here:
***********[/img] now you can either type these yourself or press the Img button above. Once you have img tags posted you then copy and paste your Pic URL into the middle of the tags like so:
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
*******http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s196 ... 2*******[b][/img][/b] >>>>>>>> but WITHOUT the ******** and hey presto >>>>>>>>
you have now posted a pic
So for e.g. this pic here I have uploaded on my Photobucket :
has the URL: http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s196 ... 1303870422, once you have an URL (internet address) for your pic you then have too place image tags on either side of it before the image will be posted.
The image tags are these here:
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
*******http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s196 ... 2*******[b][/img][/b] >>>>>>>> but WITHOUT the ******** and hey presto >>>>>>>> 
you have now posted a pic
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fugu99
- Figure 8 Puffer
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- My Puffers: Herbie (Figure 8)
Otto (Figure 8) *deceased
Henry the Figure Eighth (Figure 8)
Other: Luna (Panda Platy)
Io (Panda Platy)
Ganymede (Panda Platy)
Ocelot (Albino Pleco)
Aramis (juvenile Red Wag Platy) - Location (country): United States
- Location: Hampton, VA
Re: new puffer, need help with him
Just watched, thats a really cute puffer. He doesnt look like hes suffering, either, hes looking inquisitive and swimming around not glass surfing. Great!
"It is never easy, sweet child, to have a real gift: something else is withheld to compensate."
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rocky23
- Puffer Fry
- Posts: 29
- Joined: Mon Apr 18, 2011 10:34 am
- Gender: Male
- My Puffers: diodon holocanthus/ porcupine pufferfish
- Location (country): United Kingdom, Leicester
- Location: United Kingdom, Leicester
Re: new puffer, need help with him
thanks mate, yeah he seems to be doing great. i think i was just worrying abit at first you all know what it's like, i think i was more nervous cause he was my first puffer. i'll post some pics up another day of him, got to sort it out first, to be fair it seems alot of hassel just to post a pic. i've been on other forums and on them you can just upload your pics straight from your user area on your computer to the site if we could do that on here then that would of been great and alot easier.fugu99 wrote:Just watched, thats a really cute puffer. He doesnt look like hes suffering, either, hes looking inquisitive and swimming around not glass surfing. Great!
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Black Widow
Re: new puffer, need help with him
you cant upload on here like in UR mate some forums dont have that facility, so you have to do old skool ways with img tags.
Correction you have to do what I said above if you want to post pics in a thread, but you can upload your photos onto TPF and keep an online Photo Album, go here to set one up: ug.php?g2_controller=useralbum.UserAlbu ... d8c6765ef3 . That way you can either share links to pics or post pics via there URL's by using the [img]***[/img] tags I was telling you about. HTH
Correction you have to do what I said above if you want to post pics in a thread, but you can upload your photos onto TPF and keep an online Photo Album, go here to set one up: ug.php?g2_controller=useralbum.UserAlbu ... d8c6765ef3 . That way you can either share links to pics or post pics via there URL's by using the [img]***[/img] tags I was telling you about. HTH
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rocky23
- Puffer Fry
- Posts: 29
- Joined: Mon Apr 18, 2011 10:34 am
- Gender: Male
- My Puffers: diodon holocanthus/ porcupine pufferfish
- Location (country): United Kingdom, Leicester
- Location: United Kingdom, Leicester
Re: new puffer, need help with him
yeah thanks mate for the advice i'll look into itWalrus Head wrote:you cant upload on here like in UR mate some forums dont have that facility, so you have to do old skool ways with img tags.
Correction you have to do what I said above if you want to post pics in a thread, but you can upload your photos onto TPF and keep an online Photo Album, go here to set one up: ug.php?g2_controller=useralbum.UserAlbu ... d8c6765ef3 . That way you can either share links to pics or post pics via there URL's by using the [img]***[/img] tags I was telling you about. HTH
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rocky23
- Puffer Fry
- Posts: 29
- Joined: Mon Apr 18, 2011 10:34 am
- Gender: Male
- My Puffers: diodon holocanthus/ porcupine pufferfish
- Location (country): United Kingdom, Leicester
- Location: United Kingdom, Leicester
Re: new puffer, need help with him
here's a pic of the puffer i think it's going to work
Re: new puffer, need help with him
the puffer really looks nice mate
Re: new puffer, need help with him
watched the video he looks really nice, makes me want one
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Black Widow
Re: new puffer, need help with him
ooops, Ignore Post
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Re: new puffer, need help with him
Actually, that's not true. we see lots of pics of puffers & then tell them to enter that pic in the POTM contest.
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!"
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fugu99
- Figure 8 Puffer
- Posts: 183
- Joined: Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:29 pm
- Gender: Female
- My Puffers: Herbie (Figure 8)
Otto (Figure 8) *deceased
Henry the Figure Eighth (Figure 8)
Other: Luna (Panda Platy)
Io (Panda Platy)
Ganymede (Panda Platy)
Ocelot (Albino Pleco)
Aramis (juvenile Red Wag Platy) - Location (country): United States
- Location: Hampton, VA
Re: new puffer, need help with him
Hey great pic! Did you name your puffer? haha I guess we assume everyone has to name them, which isnt true, but Im curious. Yeah I agree, hes really awesome and it almost makes me want to get one... augh but my puffers are enough right now.
Hey that reminds me, I just noticed another bit of slang thats different between the UK and US... we say flashlight, you say torch!
Hey that reminds me, I just noticed another bit of slang thats different between the UK and US... we say flashlight, you say torch!
"It is never easy, sweet child, to have a real gift: something else is withheld to compensate."
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rocky23
- Puffer Fry
- Posts: 29
- Joined: Mon Apr 18, 2011 10:34 am
- Gender: Male
- My Puffers: diodon holocanthus/ porcupine pufferfish
- Location (country): United Kingdom, Leicester
- Location: United Kingdom, Leicester
Re: new puffer, need help with him
glad you like the puffer mate yeah the puffer is named and he's called peter swmbo named him. didn't think of that one you know the one with flashlight and torch.fugu99 wrote:Hey great pic! Did you name your puffer? haha I guess we assume everyone has to name them, which isnt true, but Im curious. Yeah I agree, hes really awesome and it almost makes me want to get one... augh but my puffers are enough right now.
Hey that reminds me, I just noticed another bit of slang thats different between the UK and US... we say flashlight, you say torch!