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AHHHHHH two out of four of my puffers have turned blackish near the eyes and body. they ddid not come like this. this is normal, right?????????

Hi and welcome to the forum. Turning black can be sleeping colours, or it could be stress. Tell us about your tank and water parameters

All the questions above in red must be answered so we can help you.

actually I put salt in their water.there are only five puffer and a plant. the tank (I don't know exact) but it is like 10 inches width and height, the puffers are half the size of your thumb. I recently changed their tank. I just got them like a week ago!!!!

That tank sounds too small for any puffer. It takes 3 dimensions to define a tank size. What kind of puffers? "Adding salt" is also does not give us any information: Waht kind? how much? how added?

Please review bertie's post and reply...

A 10" cube tank will only hold 4.3 usg gross, more realistically 3-3.5 usg net. Not big enough even for a single dp. We really need more info from you to be able to help.

Just curious: how old are you, Aquariz?

well anyway thank you they changed back to color

how old am I? old enoughnto be here

Anyone is old enough to be here but I'd still like to know. It helps me better understand where you might be in the hobby.
We all would still like to know what species of puffers you're keeping. Your tank sounds way too small for even 1 dwarf puffer. I'm afraid this will end very badly.

aaahhhh ok I made the tank a olot bigger well the biggest I could find THEY DON'T SELL TANKS HERE so like a few inches bigger ((((((((

by the way I think they're green spotted puffers I don't know I'll put pictures if I can. some of them turned sunshine yellow, ones spots faded. I don't even know if they're dwarf puffers IM DOING SEARCHING

ok I'm almost sort of nearly kinda 13 years old..... I HAVEPERMISSION 2 BE HERE

Anyone is welcome, please calm down we are here to help. Knowing people's ages really does help us know where you are at if that makes sense. We have had many young puffer keepers here.

Aquariz wrote:by the way I think they're green spotted puffers I don't know I'll put pictures if I can. some of them turned sunshine yellow, ones spots faded. I don't even know if they're dwarf puffers IM DOING SEARCHING

welcome to the forum!

Here is what a dwarf puffer looks like (scroll down to the bottom of the page for pics)

Click here ---> ug.php/v/PufferPedia/Freshwater/C_Travancoricus/

Here is what a green spotted puffer looks like (again, scroll down for pics)

Click here ---> ug.php/v/PufferPedia/Brackish/T_Nigroviridis/

You might also have a figure 8 puffer, here is what they look like

Click here ---> ug.php/v/PufferPedia/Brackish/T_Biocellatus/