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Not sure if Annabelle is getting that skin condition that matt77's puffer had and someone else's puffer. I noticed this last night, her skin color is fading. Here are some pictures I took this morning.







Amm.0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 0-5, PH 6.8
Did a 25% water change yesterday and this is when I noticed it. I thought she was just upset from the water change but now i'm not sure. I have melafix on hand and I ordered pimafix this morning. Pimafix probally won't be here for 2 weeks because of the holidays. Before I start treating I wanted to get your suggestion. Am I paranoid or is she sick? Remember she just went through a mini cycle and was recently moved from a 29g to a 125g. I overfed her yesterday so she was lazy all day. I'll be skipping her feeding today. Right now she is swimming and comes out when I look at her, being curious. No heavy breathing but she has flashed once that I saw. Hoping I'm just being a paranoid mother.


Here is a picture of me acclimating her the first day I got her:


After putting her in the 29g



There are more pics in pix and flix of her if you need more reference pictures.
Here's the link: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=15496

Here's a few more pics I just took, I also noticed black spots on the top of her. Not sure if you can really see them in the pictures.

I think she looks fine. My fahaka goes from mottled to striped all the time.

Thanks PP, she keeps changing colors on me. One minute she will look blotchy and the next minutes she will darken up. She's totally different than my other puffers and I wasn't sure if this was normal. Not to mention the fact that she keeps burying herself and half the time I can't find her. If she don't stop giving me panic attacks I'm going to have to spank her tail fin. I figured out that the black spots I saw on her was actually black sand.

I can't wait until she grows a bit more and stops the disappearing act.

Mine never burrowed.

She's so cute. Maybe she's still getting used to the new tank, is this a new gravel color for her? She's probably just trying to blend in.

In the 29g I was using aquatic soil, which was more of a rock substrate for planted tanks. In the new tank I'm using seachem's black onyx sand for planted tanks. I got a chance to measure her last night and she is now 5" from nose to tail. She ate this morning, then she went next to a log to take a nap. I swear she is sooooooooo lazy, nothing like Elvis or Chong. I guess I just need to get use to her habits also. This is my first lazy, all the time-color changing puffer.

It looks more like she is trying to blend in with the black sand, if you can change it to a light sand colour and she will change to a sort of canary yellow with dark stripes. Mine still tries to bury her self now which is funny as she hits the bottom of the tank and only a quater of her is under the sand and the rest of her is stuck up right in the water