The Puffer Forum

When I first got Birdy, I neglected the nitrate level for quite a while and he started to show the same symptoms. I was pretty sure he was blind that time. But thank goodness he recovered.. just keep up the wc to ensure pristine conditions. U will be surprise how sensitive these fishes are. It took me abt a week to get him to start eating small pieces of prawn again..

Btw what's the tank size? Sorry if I missed it. I used to have 1 of them that grew to 6in in brackish.

i have 2 ceylon in seperate 20gallon tanks and have a 90 gallon when they are ready to upgrade and will get bigger when they are full grown. Cheeto is looking way better still wont eat but he now responds to my hand and is more active. i used some aquarium salt as per http://puffernet.tripod.com/nitrite-p.html and he seems way better his breathing is not as laboured and like i said seems to be doing awesome please let me know if u think i should stop this treatment or continue. LFS had no idea what was wrong with him in the first place and i have just been going off of what i have read online. thank you guys so much for all the help and plz let me know of anything else i should be doing.

I don't recommend using aquarium salt, since it has no guaranteed analysis. I think your best option here is to keep up with the massive daily water changes.

Puffernet is the #1 worse pufferinfo site on the net!

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okay so stop salt treatment check i added some filter media from a friends tank he has had for about 4 years so hope that helps and OMG HE ATE!!! he ate a bunch of bloodworms and little piggy has a puffy pearl tummy : ) his colors are way brighter than they were yesterday

Glad he is eating again. Keep up the waterchanges

okay so Cheeto looks great eating very well and been testing my water befor every waterchange. The past 2 days Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0 Nitrate 0 but still doing 10-20% water change once a day.

Cheeto wrote:i have 2 ceylon in seperate 20gallon tanks and have a 90 gallon when they are ready to upgrade and will get bigger when they are full grown.

Wouldn't it be better to just put them into the 90 gallon? Keeping them separate their whole lives isn't a good idea if you plan to one day put them together. Also, the 90 gallon would be way better because it would keep the pollution down even more. You'd just need to move everything from your 20 gals over to your 90 gallon, and you wouldn't lose the bacteria you currently have.

I agree.

I would love to put them in the 90 but as it stands now we are moving in a few months and i also need to redo the silicone. I got the tank and stand free off of Kijiji and still need to buy a filter system for it. they are still under 1" long and are both in the same 20 gallon no problems with them attacking eachother or any signs of aggression. I do however want to know when i should start converting to brackish i know they are brackish puffers and i feel wrong keeping them in 100% fresh water.

Start raising your salinity by .02 a week.