New Zealands only Amazon Puffer in trouble.
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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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Re: New Zealands only Amazon Puffer in trouble.
put him in the 800l community
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Re: New Zealands only Amazon Puffer in trouble.
maybe its a bit too bright for him? what about some sort of plant/floating decor in the middle that provides some cover from the light. just enough to take care of the big open area in the front but not too much to block other plants that need it. at least maybe try it temporarily to see how the puff reacts to itloginthesand wrote:noticed be isn't surfing as much when the lights are off, or at least comes to the front.
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Re: New Zealands only Amazon Puffer in trouble.
I'll get some Indian fern should subdue the lighting a bit, see how it goes. Thanks.
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Re: New Zealands only Amazon Puffer in trouble.
those look like cichlids in there......
aren't they a bit nippy?
nice plants though.. it looks like a mini of my old 210.. same stuff in there.
I'd relocate that banana plant on the right to the back left / center and place the power head there instead. That way you have a good current across the front and some nice screening to relax just behind it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvYb92eJWL0
aren't they a bit nippy?
nice plants though.. it looks like a mini of my old 210.. same stuff in there.
I'd relocate that banana plant on the right to the back left / center and place the power head there instead. That way you have a good current across the front and some nice screening to relax just behind it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvYb92eJWL0
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loginthesand
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Re: New Zealands only Amazon Puffer in trouble.
Yep I've got some apistogrammas in ther with him, never had any trouble from them, quit the opposite he seems to take chunks out of the tails when the get to close, I think ive got an aggressive SAP . Good idea on the power head placement, I'm putting it in now I'll let you guys know how he's doing tonight.
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loginthesand
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Re: New Zealands only Amazon Puffer in trouble.
hes looking good today, seems to enjoy the new current, the star grass is getting bushier as well and hes hiding himself in there more, thanks for all the suggestions guys ill update again in a few days with some new photos. cheers Logan.