The Puffer Forum

will do, still nothing as of today, i read around looks like some member have had their big guys for for a couple of weeks...so will see, i put food in his tank and then take it out and replace it after 24 hours if he has not eaten it...the big snail is still cruising around, when he is gone i know ackmed has eaten....

so not being one to let things go idol for long...grabbed my digital thermometer and put it in his tank...the glass one i have reads 78...cant be right water feels way colder...digital says 74.9 will no wonder he is not doing much, he is freaking cold...so why is his water cold...pull the tops off and start looking at my heaters, i have three 250w marinelands.. middle one is hot to the touch, ok that one is working, right one is working, turn them both up to 80 and 82, (i find they are always a few degrees below what the setting is) and check the left one...nothing...no heat no nothing...well that would explain some things...he is slowing down because of the cold, so grabbed a spare, seem to have a few of them it is only a 100w....but it will work until i can get to the store...set that one high and will see what will happen...dont want to add just hot water and shock him so we will do it slowly...that should be the trick....

on another note...my GSP's love the garlic mussels...

stay tuned...

Keep us posted..

I am fighting a whirlwind of a problem right now with "Dexter" He looks like yours but has some weird issues..

Hope your guy comes around.

temp is back up to 79.5 and he still has not eaten yet....will be getting some different foods this week and try some more...will do another water change and see if that pops him back to normal....still not to worried yet...

Start with offering him live earthworms.

threw a live candian crawler in the tank at least he is not swimming away from it...will let it sit and see what happens, check the water again same specs as before which would be right on....dumb fish...why wont you eat????? you are seriously starting to stress me out.....

shaner wrote:threw a live candian crawler in the tank at least he is not swimming away from it...will let it sit and see what happens, check the water again same specs as before which would be right on....dumb fish...why wont you eat????? you are seriously starting to stress me out.....

I feel your pain.

Going to try and treat my tank with Methylene Blue to see if that helps with any infection tonight.
I am going on 5 weeks without eating. Wednesday My California Black worm will be in.

5 weeks????? holy crap.....i thought two weeks was stressfull....dumb fish...they have access to food, don't have to hunt, have it made, no predators and this is how they thank us......

Yeah needless to say he has lost some weight

Meth blue is gonna crash your system.

Sorry I may have misspoke. I am doing a bath using tank water

add Melafix, too.

Take it easy.these fellas are moody creature. Mine, one moment its literally smiling at me and the next, he dun give a s%£# when i give it food. Great personality eh.

well he is just sitting in his corner, the worm is sitting in front of him the mystery snail is cruising around on the glass and the mussel is still there..he has no appetite at all and he just looks sad....when i get up (i work 3pm -3am) in the morning i am going to to a good water change and maybe relocate some of his stuff to see if that will get him to move...will only do a 40% since i had just done a 60% a few days ago...just dont know what else to do with him...there is just no sign of anything wrong...nothing...everything i have read and studied and watch him over the years nothing...we are so careful with his tank and him i just dont get it...would really hate to lose him...

I am worried with you. For Tripp's fella, too.