The Puffer Forum

PH-8.0
Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
Nitrate-10
SG 1.015
75gallon 2 1.5" ceylons
Feeding 6 days a week once a day mussle, snails, bloodworms, mysis, never the same thing 2 days in a row.
10-15% Water change twice a week, seachum prime and stablity used for waterchanges
No change to the tank
tank has Been up and running 6 months now

2 days ago i noticed that one of my puffers had a bite on his tail fin and it now looks like it has a red stripe where the bite was. his tail still has the pice that was bitten flapping around when he swims so the chunk is still attached to his tail. today i added a dose of melafix and will continue to dose as recomended on bottle for 7 days. please let me know if there is anything else i can/should do and what u think the red might be.

Melafix is good for bacterial problems.

That doesn't look like a Ceylon. their entire belly is spotted:

It is a Ceylon they are still verry young so they dont have alot of spots yet ill try and get some better pics they dont like to hold still

I'd continue with the melafix like you mentioned and keep an eye on it. Do some larger water changes to ensure that water quality is kept high, just to be safe.

It looks very much like a GSP, I'd love to see pictures from the top, I've never seen ceylons that small (mind you I've only seen them once in person but they were very obviously ceylons).

Here is a pic of the 2 hunting a snail

Adorable! Thank you so much, they look so much like GSPs from the bottom. How neat! They're very fat though, might want to keep an eye on that

Yeah they just ate about 3 snails each theya re done eating for the day