help with two red eyes
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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.
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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.
help with two red eyes
i just got 2 red eye puffers and the male puffer is black and the other is a female is normal colour what makes it look black she told me its a dominate male but i still aint sure any advice please thanks
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i've looked at the questions in the top post. He hasn't just changed colour. i have only purchased him less than three hours ago. When i got him he was that colour as like i say before the lady in the shop said he was so dark due to him being a dominant male. He is still the same colour now while i have him in a breeding tank. i was just asking if this is normal as at the same time i purchased a "so called female" red eyed puffer which has black stirps under neath and is looking like a puffer.
My tank has been running for over a year now and all tests are fine and correct, like all other fish/puffers
Any ideas?
Paul
My tank has been running for over a year now and all tests are fine and correct, like all other fish/puffers
Any ideas?
Paul
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Please answer all of the questions at the top of the forum. Unless we have the answers, there's not much we can do to help you.
Also, what kind of puffers are they specifically? There are many called "red eyes" but they are quite different from each other. If you can't get a photo for us to help identify them, look in the PufferPedia and see if you can find one that they look like.
Also, what kind of puffers are they specifically? There are many called "red eyes" but they are quite different from each other. If you can't get a photo for us to help identify them, look in the PufferPedia and see if you can find one that they look like.
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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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Is there anything else in the tank?
You say you just got them a few hours ago, yes? It can sometimes take them several days to settle in. I'm wondering though if your tank has been set up for a year why its showing nitrites. Any amount of nitrites are bad for puffers. So I'd suggest a large water change.
As far as I know, "dominant" males don't have any different coloration than "subservient" males. Its a gender-specific coloration in that species, although I could be wrong.
You say you just got them a few hours ago, yes? It can sometimes take them several days to settle in. I'm wondering though if your tank has been set up for a year why its showing nitrites. Any amount of nitrites are bad for puffers. So I'd suggest a large water change.
As far as I know, "dominant" males don't have any different coloration than "subservient" males. Its a gender-specific coloration in that species, although I could be wrong.
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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Green spots? As in green spotted puffers?
You can't keep those two species together, irrubescos are freshwater and GSP's are brackish to full marine. Not to mention they are all extremely aggressive fish. Your tank will be just about the right size for the two GSP's with nothing else in there once they are full grown.
Can you get a photo of the "dark" puffer?
Definately do water changes, you shouldn't be reading any nitrites at all.
You can't keep those two species together, irrubescos are freshwater and GSP's are brackish to full marine. Not to mention they are all extremely aggressive fish. Your tank will be just about the right size for the two GSP's with nothing else in there once they are full grown.
Can you get a photo of the "dark" puffer?
Definately do water changes, you shouldn't be reading any nitrites at all.
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