The Puffer Forum

Okay, so my puffer, Blimpy, had ich so I put him in a quarantine tank, and then one of his eyes got all cloudy, and then today, at 1:00 o'clock ish I walked by and he was no longer breathing. I stared at him for like 8 minutes and he didn't breathe, and when I walked by several times he still wasn't breathing, so of course I was figured he had died....sad..I know, and I was going to wait for my roommate to come home to help deal with him. BUt now,he's breathing and moving his fins??? I'm so confused! Is this just some like...in death weird twitching or something? Or is he actually alive?? I really need help here, I want him to live if he is actually still alive, his ich doesn't look as bad anymore, but hes got that super cloudy eye and this whitish stuff growing around the eye...which I just noticed today, so it's new, and I don't know what it is and I have no idea what to do about it. He won't swim around or anything, he's sitting in the sameplace, but....is he alive???

He has got to be alive if his fins are moving. Poor puffer. Do what you can for him and try to make him comfortable. I'm Sorry, I don't know what else to advise.

Okay, here are pictures of him.......what is the white stuff? Is this just nerves? Or alive?? Ehhh>>> My roommate is just giving up,and that makes me mad, what should I do?

How did you cycle the quarantine? He might be dealing with ammonia toxicity.

Okay well nevermind everyobdy, he really is dead now, I don't really know why that happened....

Aww. I was scared to death when i thought my puffer almost died a few secs ago when i was trimming his teeth. But yours actually died.

I'm sorry to hear that

I'm so sorry he died .

Thanks for the help and support anyway guys...this site is a good resource to have when I have no idea what to do. I really want another one, but it's too soon, and I don't want the same thing to happen again, and I don't want Blimpy to feel like I can just replace him in a second.