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Hi, I am new to this forum. I bought my two puffers over the weekend. One figure 8 and one dwarf. Put them into the tank with my other fish. Since yesterday I noticed that their colour is abit off. Can you please give me some ideas of what is wrong.

If you could please answer all the question in red above it will help us to help you. F8's and dwarf puffers both need different requirements in the SG of the tank water ( f8's are brachish and dwarfs are freshwater). They shouldnt be housed together. Here is some reading to do.

library/puffers-in-focus/fig8/

library/puffers-in-focus/dwarfpuffercare/

Welcome to The Puffer Forum you have come to the right place for the correct information.

PH level is 5. I put in medisyne over the weekend to restore ph level, amonium level. Haven't taken it since then, will take it again this afternoon.
Tank size: 40 Gallons
Tank mates: 1 Parrot, 2 Pleco's, 4 Malawi's, and the two puffers
Food: freezed and dried blood worms, flakes, pellets.
Water Change: I changed water about 1 and a half weeks ago with 25% water change every weekend, and 80% water change every month.

Plus neither should be housed with any other species of fish either

I'm glad you found us! Is it possible for you to return those puffers? None of your fish will be happy with those lil terrors constantly nipping at them! If you truly want a puffer, you're going to have to set up a totally different tank. Do lots & lots of research here (we're here for your questions), before you do this.

Please do an 80% water change to remove whatever crap you just added into your tank, before it kills all your fish. None of that is necessary (not even sure what it is), that water changes can't fix. All you should be adding to your water is a good dechlor (most of us use Prime), during WC. That's it!

I do have another tank, really want to keep the puffers, if you can give me some guide line on how to set it up it will help me a lot. It is a 20 gallon tank. And I have lots of decorations. Waiting for your advice on setting up the puffer tank.

The 20g should work fine for the figure 8, but it can't live with the green-spotted, which gets too big for either of the tanks, anyway.

Some reading:
library/puffers-in-focus/fig8/
library/water-filtration/fishless-cycling/
library/feeding/feeding-your-puffers/

LilGreenPuffer wrote:The 20g should work fine for the figure 8, but it can't live with the green-spotted, which gets too big for either of the tanks, anyway.

I bought my two puffers over the weekend. One figure 8 and one dwarf.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Duh! Whups. It's past 4am here. I must be lacking sleep... *toddles off to bed*

Which means, 3 separate tanks.