Here is where I left off.
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currently he is in the 37 gallon marine tank by himself.
water params:
SG: 1.022 (slowly raising it up)
ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
pH: 8
Nitrate: Not exactly sure, not too high though.
His ich is all gone, his skin is clear, but he has become extremely lethargic, he spends 95% of the day with his head jammed under a rock like he's terrified to swim. his fins are clamped and he does not move unless I either feed him (he'll come out and gobble up some food, but not 5 minutes later he will go back into hiding, or move the rock he's hiding under, he will come out for a minute and go back to lay on the bottom. He's very dark colored now, his body is almost totally black, half the time it doesn't even look like he's breathing, so I move the rock to check if he's dead and he swims away for a minute before finding another spot to lay. I haven't seen him fan his tail out in days (then again, he's never really fanned his tail out for longer than a second since I brought him home). Though he was the largest, healthiest, most personable puffer in the tank when I picked him out.
I treated his water twice with jungle IP tablets, as well as soaking his food with a little medicated tank water and garlic (which he won't really eat, so I don't know how much good its doing) He still eats snails like a boss though.
here's a picture I just took a minute or two.
I'm seriously at a loss here. I've done everything I can think of to make this guy happy, and I've failed. All the while my girlfriend has a GSP in a 5 gallon fluval chi w/ fresh water, and despite my lecturing that it is not a proper environment for a GSP, MINE is the one dying, and hers is the happiest puffer I've ever seen. I don't know what to do anymore.
