The Puffer Forum

Hi all,

One of my two GSP's in my 30 Gal tank has been bloated for about 4 days now. The other one is healthy and swimming around but the one has lots of grey/black stress lines on his belly and he seems very fat or bloated. He also hasn't been moving around very much and most of the time he is resting on the bottom breathing heavier than normal. I did a 25% water on the first day I noticed it and today did a over 50% water change but that doesn't seem to be helping, he also hasn't eaten anything that I can see, please help!

I've had these guys from about 6 months now and the tank has been fully cycled for 4 of those months

Gotta answer all the Qs above, in red please!

ph - 7.4
I haven't tested the water as i ran out of strips I might be able to go down to my LFS today though
salinity 1.010
30 gal tank with two filters kept at 74 ferenheit with two 2 inch GSP's
Feeding: Frozen Krill every other day, 10 gal water change with gravel cleaning once a week
No New additions to tank
Cycled 4 months ago with a cycling treatment tank has been setup for 6 months

Get yourself API liquid test kits & please post the parameters here. Are you using marine salt? A pic would help too.

ya i'm using instant ocean, i'll put a pic up soon

He stopped breathing as i was uploading the videos of him, in his last hour he was doing this weird gulping thing where he stomach was moving alot, was he puffing? im not sure anyway R.I.P. little puffer at least my one remaining is in a proper sized tank now

that's too bad. I'm sorry.

Maybe you can still upload the photo so at least we know what might have caused that?

Sorry to hear that R.I.P!

im sorry x

Hey i got the videos up of my poor little puff about an hour before he died, tell me what you think, at the end of the longer one you can see my healthy one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlBJFCSotYg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7WpfSkm-JE

Thanks

looks like he may have taken in air.

for future reference how do you fix that?

I wouldnt consider this true until someone here verified it, but i heard you should hold their tail down with their nose up and shake the air out of him. Gently

Sorry to hear that too.... both have beautiful spottage on them. My puffs have little ovals, no funky shapes like yours I wish mine did, it looks cool.

Yeah, from the way he's having trouble swimming upright, I'd say there was air in there.
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