The Puffer Forum

hey guys, so my porcupine puffer has ich, ive dropped the salinity and gave him a freshwater dip (which he accepted rather well) and hes in a qt. Ive noticed these white fluffy things at the bottom of the tank, what is that? Is that some of the parasites falling off? Ive cleaned the bottom like 4 times today, he hasnt eaten anything today at all but he now is swimming about the tank. Should i give him another freshwater dip? Any suggestions?

Have you read the article on this in our Library? Just follow that & he should be fine.

but remember you have to treat the main tank as well, or he's get it again as soon as you put him back in...

Im treating the main tank he was in now? Should i change the substrate?

Nope, keeping it fallow, is fine. Get your puffer down to 1.009 & tons of WC. Keep a lot of mixed SW on hand. Are there other fish?

The only other fish is, i think hes called an architect goby. I think he has it worse than the puffer. There was a domino damsel but we lost him.

QT & hypo all fish.

The two are sharing the qt together, the goby and the puffer. I noticed some white stringy stuff coming out of the puffer as he was going to the bathroom. Im assuming internal parasites. I quickly did a water change and he seemed to be feeling better after that. He has been swimming all around the qt. I did notice that one of his eyes is getting cloudy. He hasnt eaten today but im going to try to feed him in a bit. Any suggestions for the internal parasites or do u guys think its something else? Also, tank is at 78-80 degrees is that ok?

That temp is fine but a little lower might be better & add an airstone. Is he skinny? What's the SG now?

The temp now is between 74, we have an airstone in there, got the salinity down to 1.014 gonna drop to 10 today.