Sick pea puffer not eating.
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Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
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Sick pea puffer not eating.
I have a sick pea puffer that has not been eating for the last week.Today he has been laying at the bottom of the tank not moving.I have been feeding my pea puffers unthawed blood worms.Both of my other 2 pea puffers are eating and doing fine.They are in a 5 gallon aquarium right now my ph is at 7.0 and the temp is at 80.The ammonia reading is 0ppm and the nitrite and nitrate i got tested at petsmart and the said the levels were good.Iam just needing som advice on how to keep my puffer alive.I have some aquarium salt on hand but no other medications due to my budget.Does adding a little aquarium salt help in the aid of a sick pea puffer?Any helpful advice would be appreciated.
Re: Sick pea puffer not eating.
Try soaking the bloodworms with chopped/crushed garlic. That may help entice it to eat. You can also try wiggling a worm in front of it. You can also try live blackworms. We have some feeding articles that I've linked to here:
library/feeding/feedingproblems/
library/feeding/problems-feeding-your-puffer/
library/feeding/feeding-your-puffers/
How long have you had the fish and can you get numbers for nitrite and nitrate too? How does it look (skin, body condition, colour), are it's eyes clear? Is it's belly sunken in? Have you treated for internal parasites?
library/feeding/feedingproblems/
library/feeding/problems-feeding-your-puffer/
library/feeding/feeding-your-puffers/
How long have you had the fish and can you get numbers for nitrite and nitrate too? How does it look (skin, body condition, colour), are it's eyes clear? Is it's belly sunken in? Have you treated for internal parasites?
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Re: Sick pea puffer not eating.
Your tank is only large enough for a single dwarf puffer. We also need to know the answers to the other Qs above, including exact numbers for your nitrite/nitrate. Are the other puffers chasing it or anything?
library/puffers-in-focus/dwarfpuffercare/
library/puffers-in-focus/sexing-carinot ... rf-puffer/
Please read all the links offered to you in this thread.
library/puffers-in-focus/dwarfpuffercare/
library/puffers-in-focus/sexing-carinot ... rf-puffer/
Please read all the links offered to you in this thread.
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