I am very sad to say that one of my baby Green Spotted Puffers has passed away this morning.
I got two baby Green Spotted Puffers for Christmas a little over a month ago. Their names are Frodo and Buckbeak. From the start, Frodo was much more active and always got the food first while buckbeak was a lot more laid back and would not fight for the food.
I have done hours and hours of research on these guys and that’s why I’m so worried - everything was perfect. Their water levels were perfect, salt levels, I do partial water changes every 2-3 days. They eat freeze dried krill, brine shrimp, and snails.
Any way about 3 days ago Buckbeak started acting even more strange than usual. He was going to the bottom of the tank face down and hiding near the filter or in the corners. He was still eating 2 days ago just very slowly. Then yesterday, he wouldn’t eat at all even when I gave him a snail which he loves. After this I knew something was very wrong so I ran to the store and got “General Cure API” because I feared he had some sort of parasite. I began treating the entire tank last night and prayed it would work, but this morning I woke up and Buckbeak was sadly passed away.
Now what worries me is that Frodo is perfectly fine, happy, jumping around and eating more than ever. I am worried he is going to get whatever Buckbeak had. For this reason I am going to finish treating his water with the General Cure just in case. However I am very confused what happened. I had them for over 5 weeks so you would think that if it was parasites the signs would have been there earlier, although he was a bit lethargic from the start.
Another possibility is that Frodo injured Buckbeak? He would always nip at Buckbeak only during feeding time when he got food before him. But besides feeding time they were buddies.
Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
Mystery Green Spotted Puffer Death - please help
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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: Mystery Green Spotted Puffer Death - please help
Sometimes, when you keep 2 of these fish, one of them becomes dominant & the other withers away. Their diet is very poor.library/feeding/feeding-your-puffers/
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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