The Puffer Forum

PH: 8
Nitrite:0 mg/l
Nitrate:10 mg/l
Carbonate H: 6°d
Gh: 12
salinity: 1010
May it be a bite from the other gsp there's in the tank? even though it seems way too big and perfect.
The gsp is behaving normally as always, he just ate and it seems alright.

That doesn't look like a bite, because if it were one, there would likely be skin or even some flesh missing. I wonder if that's what ringworm looks like. Maybe one of the gurus will have an idea.

Is your puffer rubbing up against the ornaments in the tank?

To me, it looks like the partially-healed version of a bite. However, I have no experience of knowledge about ring worms, so I would definitely look for some pictures and see if it looks similar.

He doesn't rub himself and I've thought it was similar to a bite because it happened once and there was no skin nor flesh missing but the bitten part was just more dark (maybe it wasn't a complete and deep bite) anyway thank you and I'll document about ringworms

Did it appear suddenly?

Last night when I went to sleep it was all ok and even this morning when I got up, when I returned home after six hours of school I found that.

Do you have an uncovered powerhead? My stars & stripes had a round cicle on his belly twice like that. I noticed the guard on my powerhead was missing and he likes to hoover around them from time to time. The second time it happened he knocked the cover off the powerhead, he got too close and when he swam away he had a round cicle just like yours on his belly. I didn't see it happen the first time but I saw it the second time. Just a thought.

I haven't an uncovered powerhead...
And I can't find anything about ringworm

How big is that GSP? And what other inhabitants are in the tank?

just two gsp, he's 5 cm with fin and the other is a little bigger

hi,
that is a partly healed pufferbite.
martin

Absolutely a puffer bite. It will heal on it's own or add Melafix for faster healing. If this continues though, you'll need a bigger tank with more territories for each of them or seperation. How large is the tank? Could you post a FTS?

I third the bite.

GURANTEE is a bite..no doubt about that.