Re: Arrowhead puffing up
Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:58 am
FADE2BLACK_1973 wrote:Sounds like his immume system might be down abit. Try soaking some freeze-dried krill in some good liquid muti vitamins. Yes, I mentioned feeding krill to a puffer...lol. BUT it soaks up liquid meds and muti vitamins extremely well and wont hurt every now and then.
Btw, I must had missed that your puffer was puffing up constant. Yeah, now something would be wrong there and I dont believe it was caused by the sand on his back since he lives most of his life buried in the sand,imo. It has to be something else causing it. Like what Bernie mentioned, WC's should help if it is caused by the water but the water should be tested to determine. Or he was getting sick before he started puffing up to get relief, imo.
Hi thanks, The puffer wouldn't eat krill and i don't have any frozen foods. The cause was because i moved my filter from one side to the other. He could see himself in the side of the tank, he couldn't before because the filter is large and the sides of the tank is like a mirror. I have had to put some plants just there and he setteld down and hasen't puffed since. The thing with the krill, the arrowhead won't eat nothing unless it's alive i tried a good few times at the start to dangle food near him but it's to messy and to much messing around. The water is perfect and tank is immaculate.