Hi I have some gsp and my big 1 is on top floating and he puffed up he is a few months old some 1 help don't msg me on here msg me on yahoo or aol or aim
Aim latinlegacysd
Aol latinlegacysd
Yahoo im ll_latinlegacy_ll
Please hurry any 1
hi i had puffers for a while but help me with my big 1 911
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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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latinlegacy760
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Boxermom
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Re: hi i had puffers for a while but help me with my big 1 911
Moving this to the hospital forum. Please answer all of the questions at the top of the forum.
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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manutius
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Re: hi i had puffers for a while but help me with my big 1 911
please anaswer the quaeation above but it sounds like the puffer needs burping to me
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latinlegacy760
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Re: hi i had puffers for a while but help me with my big 1 911
latinlegacy760 wrote:Hi I have some gsp and my big 1 is on top floating and he puffed up he is a few months old some 1 help don't msg me on here msg me on yahoo or aol or aim
Aim latinlegacysd
Aol latinlegacysd
Yahoo im ll_latinlegacy_ll
Please hurry any 1
I was reading all nite my walrus is 1.5 yes I did cycle I used bio also marina salt tank is 500 gallons I fixed him I burpped him and he is normal now thanks though
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Pufferpunk
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Re: hi i had puffers for a while but help me with my big 1 911
What's that? Glad burping helped.my #### is 1.5
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manutius
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Re: hi i had puffers for a while but help me with my big 1 911
glad he's ok now 
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Puffalicious
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Re: hi i had puffers for a while but help me with my big 1 911
what's burping? and how do we know if our fish needs burping?
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Myaj
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Re: hi i had puffers for a while but help me with my big 1 911
Puffers are designed to puff up by sucking in water, not air. If taken out of the water, or startled when at the surface, they can sometimes puff up with air instead. This is bad, because they can't expel the air as easily as they could with water, so they get "stuck".
Then they need us to help by "burping" them, basically holding them under water, nose up, tail down, and shaking them gently or lightly rubbing their belly to get them to release the air easier.
They can die if they don't release the air, so its pretty important to take care of it right away.
Then they need us to help by "burping" them, basically holding them under water, nose up, tail down, and shaking them gently or lightly rubbing their belly to get them to release the air easier.
They can die if they don't release the air, so its pretty important to take care of it right away.
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manutius
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Re: hi i had puffers for a while but help me with my big 1 911
I am so glad that Clooney has never needed burping :S