The Puffer Forum

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forum ... reath-help!!!!

If anyone can help it'd be you guys.

It does look like an injury to the bottom of the gills or maybe something eating his flesh from either parasites or a bad bacterial disease. Really hard to tell from the pic. This is something that I have never seen in any of my fishes over the 24 years in the fishkeeping hobby. Maybe someone else could give something better then me.

Sure didn't give much to go on.

i know its hard to take a picture of a fish, but does your camera or phone have a "burst shot" mode? where it will take a few quick pictures of a moving object? if not hopefully you can try to get a more in focus shot so someone can help. or try google images for "gill parasite" or something that describes what your fish has and find a similar picture to link to us

jus85411 wrote:i know its hard to take a picture of a fish, but does your camera or phone have a "burst shot" mode? where it will take a few quick pictures of a moving object? if not hopefully you can try to get a more in focus shot so someone can help. or try google images for "gill parasite" or something that describes what your fish has and find a similar picture to link to us

I don't think it's actually the OP's fish. I think he was just sharing the link with us.

yeah just asking incase he was a part of their community as well, just under a different handle(edit: and country) i didnt notice locations right away

Lol. Well hopefully someone can help that guy. People on that site probably aren't going to know what to suggest.

I wonder if it could be a smaller piscivorous fish doing that.

Possibly. Without them giving more info to go on, it's hard for anyone to help.