The Puffer Forum

Well, really bad news and maybe possibly OK news... my sick puffer is hanging in there in the hospital tank and seems to be more active today - and eating both yesterday and today. I've been doing the 50% water changes and Furan each day. He still has "the thing" on his eye and was laying on a plant but gets up and moving when I turn the light on in the office. The really bad news is that his girlfriend - (left in the display tank) dropped dead overnight. Absolutely NOTHING changed in there except I syphoned out a gallon of water on Friday and replaced it - just like a normal water change that I do every week except less! I treated the replacement water as usual and it was the right temp - I just don't get it! She was the healthly one and was perfectly fine! I don't know if it's any kind of indication but the ghost shrimp is still fine... Is there some kind of test for the water that I'm not doing - not listed on the first post? I managed to keep both of them alive and healthy for over three years - I'm just confounded. Has anyone heard of such a thing??

She could have had the same infection but did not show symptoms like the male did.

I'm sorry.