Upside down puffer
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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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flsunshinejlh
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Upside down puffer
I have two new dwarf puffers. One of them stays upside down, cannot swim and only eats when i put a shrimp in his mouth. He has been like this for seven days. Please help!
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flsunshinejlh
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upside down puffer
All water parameters are high now except pH. I am trying to get all to acceptable levels. I just find it strange that one puffer is fine and the other is not. The tank had water replaced about a week before the puffers were introduced to the tank. We had them in there for a week before the one decided he likes to be upside down on his/her back.
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RTR
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That fish has swallowed air in the act of puffing.
there are instructions for burping a puffer here:
http://www.thepufferforum.com/articles/ ... rpuff.html
there are instructions for burping a puffer here:
http://www.thepufferforum.com/articles/ ... rpuff.html
Where's the fish? - Neptune
Some call it a product of a mis-spent youth, I call it Rock n Roll ! 
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flsunshinejlh
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Upside down puffer
Thanks for the advise I will give it a try. Hope it works, will let you know.
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flsunshinejlh
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upside down puffer
We have burped the little guy and he is still with us. 
He is still upside down.
We have some pics but do not know how to post them.
He is still upside down.
We have some pics but do not know how to post them.
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Phaedrus
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You can post the pictures to your photo gallery. http://www.thepufferforum.com/ug
EDIT - I see from your gallery that you already found it! That's great, but those aren't dwarf puffers. That's a Green Spotted Puffer! Check out the pufferpedia.
EDIT - I see from your gallery that you already found it! That's great, but those aren't dwarf puffers. That's a Green Spotted Puffer! Check out the pufferpedia.
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Boxermom
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Hope you got a big enough tank! You're going to need a much bigger one than if they were DPs.
Tina
Puffers: Auriglobus silus x1, Tetraodon travancoricus x1, Tetraodon turgidus x1, Tetraodon miurus x1, Tetraodon nigroviridis x2, Tetraodon baileyi x2, Tetraodon lineatus x1, Tetraodon palembangensis x1
Puffers: Auriglobus silus x1, Tetraodon travancoricus x1, Tetraodon turgidus x1, Tetraodon miurus x1, Tetraodon nigroviridis x2, Tetraodon baileyi x2, Tetraodon lineatus x1, Tetraodon palembangensis x1
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flsunshinejlh
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Upside down puffer
Thanks for all the input. We do not have any water stats at this time. I will take a sample to our local pet store, then I can go from there and hopefully get her right side up.