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Awesome vid fella. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome!!! Never seen an arrowhead puff up before. Only puffers that I ever see puff up in person, was my stars and stripes and a porcupine puffer I once owned.

He is too cute i need to find space for another tank

bertie 83 wrote:Awesome vid fella. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks mate

cool

very cool video

Captain Pancake wrote:very cool video

He got very sicxk not long after puffing up like this, he's looking much better though the last few days
Thanks

suvattii2012 wrote:

Captain Pancake wrote:very cool video

He got very sicxk not long after puffing up like this, he's looking much better though the last few days
Thanks

I dont think puffing up caused him to get sick. It is natural for puffers to do this, some just do it more then others. I have seen afew of my marine puffers puff up for no reason that I could tell. But never seen any of my FW or BW puffer's puff up but did not mean they did not do it when I was away though. So, I hope your Arrowhead is doing better though.

I have seen the arrowhead inhale some water before and inflate like on 0:00 on the video, but this was full on stressed out puffing.

F2b he was constantly puffing, we believe the stress of this let things get ontop of him.

bertie 83 wrote:F2b he was constantly puffing, we believe the stress of this let things get ontop of him.

Its looking much better the last few days. I have used the bottle of malafix now. The area around the gill is still abit white but all the redness has gone and the skin is looking much better. Should i get more malafix and keep treating or can i over do it? Should i just carrie on as i was before and do some extra water changes for a few weeks?

Cheers

Keep up the extra chances, they certainly won't hurt. You probably dont need mel anymore but I would personally keep adding it for a bit longer, it certainly won't hurt. Glad he is on the mend, it sucks when they are not 100%

Yeah ok thanks. Yeah it does suck like i said in the other post i used to feed him aload of guppies and my tank and filter where not upto scratch but the last 10 months or so ive kept everything as perfect as possible and then he gets fin rot. It's ashame but what can ya do.

Sounds like his immume system might be down abit. Try soaking some freeze-dried krill in some good liquid muti vitamins. Yes, I mentioned feeding krill to a puffer...lol. BUT it soaks up liquid meds and muti vitamins extremely well and wont hurt every now and then.

Btw, I must had missed that your puffer was puffing up constant. Yeah, now something would be wrong there and I dont believe it was caused by the sand on his back since he lives most of his life buried in the sand,imo. It has to be something else causing it. Like what Bernie mentioned, WC's should help if it is caused by the water but the water should be tested to determine. Or he was getting sick before he started puffing up to get relief, imo.