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Hi guys!! My friend recently bought a fahaka from LFS and is under quarantine right now. Due to the fact that his computer is not working. So he ask me to post this for him because his question is out of my league as i never own a fahaka before. He sayshe been treating his fahaka with gel tek cure px in the tank and soak bloodworms with it during feeding. The fahaka still willing to eat actually my friend says very eager to eat but next day the belly will get sunken really quickly. He also put a little salt in the tank. He watch the fahaka poop and is all black. So i dont know what else he can do. Im pretty sure is IP. This treatment been going on for a week now. Can anyone give me advice about this. especially if you have face the same problem with your fahaka. Thanks in adavnce!!!

ammonia=0
nitrites=0
nitrates=10ppm
ph=7.5

hospital tank been established and running for 2 years with no decor or substrates.

Tell him that if the pooh is not white or stringy and slimy then it's not ip's. He can stop the treatment. He needs to feed the puffer shrimp, clams, mussels, crabs etc. Annabelle with through a skinny fase and now she's starting to fatten up. Although she did have ip's. But tell him to try more filling food as listed above.

i find that strange too because his fahaka only 2 1/2 inch long. I feed my puffers every other day and their belly never would get sunken the next day but his fahaka get sunken next day after he feeds him like it go ip's. So are you advicing to feed his fahaka everyday with shrimp,mussels,etc?

When he feeds his fahaka is his/her belly nice and round and fat or is it just filled out? I never fed Annabelle bloodworms when she was 2". It just didn't seem like it would fill her up.
I always fed her one of these:
@ 7" one whole mussel @ 2" 1/2 mussel
@ 7" one whole shrimp @ 2" 1/2 shrimp
@ 7" two whole scallops @ 2" 1 scallop
@ 7" 1/4 of a crab

What I'm saying is maybe he needs to feed something more filling for the puffer, something that will keep it full longer and not just bloodworms. Something with more meat to it. Puffer's need variety in their diet anyway.