The Puffer Forum

Ive not fed any freeze dried food to myn, hes just had frozen cockles, frozen muscles and he sometimes pinches a brine shrimp or two off the triggers. If the air pocket is not in his stomack where will it be?

Thanks,
James

Also from going for floating foods & gulping air as he eats. This may be constipation too. Do you see him poop? What is his diet?

Do you thaw the food before feeding?

OK I can't get any pictures that you can see or not, I'm going to try and burp him tonight and if that doesn't work, I'm going to use a syringe with the plunger out of it to see if it will force the air out, I know this is very, very extreme but he's dying anyway and I can't think or find any other info regarding this so it looks like this is a last choice. I'm very upset about this as he is by far my FAVORITE fish and I don't like seeing anything suffer so it's all or nothing tonight.

PS I have a picture.

ok so does anybody know if a puffer has a hole in it's skin, will it heal up?

0 ammonia
0 Nitrite
0 nitrate
1.015 SG
PH ? my kit is out but I have crushed coral for substrate and did a 65% water change 2 days ago, so it should be right.

Well I tried the needle thing, but I think the needle was too big and I couldn't puncture the skin. I will try and get a smaller needle tomorrow from the pharmacy, they'll probably think i'm a junky trying to score a syringe or something. He did react to the pain and got squirmy. I don't know what to do. This is making me sick.

Hi,

Your pic definately shows it has the same problem as myn and im sure the air isn`t in the bit that puffs up as it stays where it is when he`s fully inflated, surely "popping" him with a needle could cause major damage to one of his organs?

Just managed to get some decent shots that shows myn much clearer...





I hadn`t even thought of popping him with a needle and i already feel sick, i can imagine what your going through!

He`s just done a poo and a little bubble came out, not all of it but its a start!

My puffer fish farts LOL

The food is always thawed before i give it to them.

Puffer skin is extremely thick, tough & elastic, covered in spines. I could barely get a new razorblade through it for a dissection. You might want to post to Puffer Queen at Marine Depot, before doing anything drastic:
http://forum.marinedepot.com/Forum10-1.aspx

Just rescued a GSP but it doesn't look so good. Fish is about 1" long is moving its fine and mouth but just floating kindof upside down (tail up) on the bottom of the makeshift tank. He was in a McDonald's freaking cup before this. I added fresh water to some of the water he was in, a couple drops of parasite guard and some stresszyme. Nothing has changed yet. This was a surprise and I didn't make it to the pet shop in time to get ph and other test kits so I don't know the nitrate/ph levels, but he was in freshwater and I transferred him to freshwater (for now). He's got a bubble wand in the tank to get oxygen into the water. What else can I do????

Please start a new thread on this.