Newbie GSP Freaking out! Help!
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 8:17 am
Hello All, can you lend us some advice?
We already have two Green Spotted Puffers who we've had a while now, both doing very well, nothing out of the ordinary.
Yesterday we bought a new Green Spotted puffer to go along with the others at a later date, he's in a 60L Biorb now as a quarantine away from our other fish.
In the pet shop he looked fine, he was in a small tank and doing what he should be- hovering around with a white belly. On the way home he seemed OK, but as soon as we carefully pulled the fish bag out of the paper bag to bob him on the water he started going insane, his belly turned black and he was darting around trying to force his way out any way he could- soon after his whole body became black and grey.
We have done everything we should, floated him for 15 minutes, allowed some water in, left bobbing for another 15 minutes and then let him in with his water, he's in this tank on his own- plenty of caves and hidey holes (plants too) and he's not eating, he's still black and he's hiding all the time, when he does come out he goes crazy shooting around all black and gray- but here's my biggest concern, I can hear scratching when he moves his face along the glass- are his teeth too long and causing him pain?
He isn't eating anything at all. We thought he may have settled by now, but nothing has changed.
We already have two Green Spotted Puffers who we've had a while now, both doing very well, nothing out of the ordinary.
Yesterday we bought a new Green Spotted puffer to go along with the others at a later date, he's in a 60L Biorb now as a quarantine away from our other fish.
In the pet shop he looked fine, he was in a small tank and doing what he should be- hovering around with a white belly. On the way home he seemed OK, but as soon as we carefully pulled the fish bag out of the paper bag to bob him on the water he started going insane, his belly turned black and he was darting around trying to force his way out any way he could- soon after his whole body became black and grey.
We have done everything we should, floated him for 15 minutes, allowed some water in, left bobbing for another 15 minutes and then let him in with his water, he's in this tank on his own- plenty of caves and hidey holes (plants too) and he's not eating, he's still black and he's hiding all the time, when he does come out he goes crazy shooting around all black and gray- but here's my biggest concern, I can hear scratching when he moves his face along the glass- are his teeth too long and causing him pain?
He isn't eating anything at all. We thought he may have settled by now, but nothing has changed.
