The Puffer Forum

So Skribbles has been pretty good for the few weeks that we've had him. I have to feed it personally for it to eat and it only eats a little at a time. It seems like nothing compared to our other puffers. Lol. Anyways, the last few days it sleeps pretty much all day in a cave. I've had to move the rock over him and touch him with the pinchers so he will come out for a second and eat. Then it's back to sleep.

It seems like depression or something. At least he still eats or I'd be more worried. Everyone else is fine..... I'm just confused. Oh, and he's not being picked on either.

Have you checked the parameters?

Yea. Everything is normal but the mag and calc. I run mag high to kill gha and I started using some purple up recently. I was worried that the purple up might have been disagreeing with him so I stopped. My salinity is 1.026

Oddly enough when I woke up this morning he was out swimming around. I fed him a few clams which he ate like he was really hungry, then eventually went back to the cave. He seems fine, it's just not what he was doing for the first few weeks. I read mappas hide more and eat less often then others so I've been assuming its just that.

Glad he's adjusting to his new surroundings.