My first puffer died some days ago ... now my other puffer "CHE" is acting weird... Just as my last puffer , he started to eat and "throw up" and with hiccups when i feed em bloodworms , then he stopped moving all around..
I found my last puffer on my Filter Tube stuck to it , and i just got home and found "CHE" stucked to the filter tube , i thought he was dead but when i tried to get him he swimmed away...with his belly all flat and weird cuz he was stuck with the belly on the tube....
I moved him to my 10G tannk with my guppys and small guppys (in the net of course so he wont eat them) and he seems fine..just watching all the guppys and trying to eat them...
WHATS WRONG lol....why was he stuck on the filter tube if he can swim just fine :S???
URGENT PLEASE! Puffer with suicidal tendency
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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.
URGENT PLEASE! Puffer with suicidal tendency
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Usually, I think when they are stuck to filter intakes and whatnot, they are not fine.
They may be able to swim fine, but in my experiance, both puffers I had that did that turned out to be ill, and died not long after. (the third, I managed to save, when I realized what course of action to take for the problem). My GSP now never, ever does that anymore - she only did it in the throes of what I believed to be gill flukes along with internal parasites.
I don't think healthy puffers do that..I'm not sure why... laziness because they don't feel well, maybe? Dunno, but it's not a good thing, IME.
They may be able to swim fine, but in my experiance, both puffers I had that did that turned out to be ill, and died not long after. (the third, I managed to save, when I realized what course of action to take for the problem). My GSP now never, ever does that anymore - she only did it in the throes of what I believed to be gill flukes along with internal parasites.
I don't think healthy puffers do that..I'm not sure why... laziness because they don't feel well, maybe? Dunno, but it's not a good thing, IME.
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Then sit back and watch as everyone tries to figure out how you did it.
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I dont have my water parameters right now , but hes tummy is flat , hes not eating anymore , i tried bloodworms , live artemy , small guppys , shrimp and snails , all in his tank but he wont take any...hes swimming slow , and its all thin :'( ....
If its gill flukes or internal parasites what can i do , what do you recommend me to treat him with ...i dont think hes gonna last too long like that ...
If its gill flukes or internal parasites what can i do , what do you recommend me to treat him with ...i dont think hes gonna last too long like that ...
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you can go to your local lfs and see what they have for internal parasites and gill flukes if not you will have to find it online. hope everything is ok. Dosnt seem you have much time. Did you do a water change. if you can get the water paramiters to me it would be alot of help. Did you just get these puffers and not know exactly what to expect from them. Was your tank cylced.
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yes , the tank was cylced , i had CHICO for a month and a half and then he died , and CHE i got i him 2 weeks after CHICO ... so they been with me for little time...
My monodactylus died in that same tank i think by parasites too , no one can tell me why he died , he started to have trouble breathing...then 2 weekas later chico died , and now , a week from chicos dead che is dying , ...when the mono died i changed the water and got all my readings well so i thought water was just right...
My monodactylus died in that same tank i think by parasites too , no one can tell me why he died , he started to have trouble breathing...then 2 weekas later chico died , and now , a week from chicos dead che is dying , ...when the mono died i changed the water and got all my readings well so i thought water was just right...
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