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I posted to the Puffer Forum FB page, but maybe someone here will have seen this before (there are more ppl on here)

My GSPs are sick. Please help. Here is a video of one of the puffers, the skin isn't on the top of his back...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H5Wy2ma ... SWXSDMXUYw

I have never seen anything like this. I have had my three green spotted puffers around 3 years. They have been full marine for about 9 months. We do water changes at least once a week.

We went out of town for a week and came home to sick puffs. Please let me know if you have ever seen anything like this. All of my non-puffer fish seem to be fine. The puffers are acting like themselves, they're backs look bad though.
We have been adding stress coat and melafix to the tank.

They live with:
-1 Lunar Wrasse
-1 fox face lo
-1 cleaner wrasse
-2 anthis
-1 tuxedo erchient
-1 long legged star fish guy who hides under rocks (I forget his name)
-some snails, hermits, and some tiny starfish.
-Variety of corals

Other tank info:
-There are a variety of corals
-a protein skimmer
-sand and gravel mix {vacuumed regularly, any where not covered in live rock)
-two penguin 250 filters with bio wheels removed / we usually have active carbon in them, but it is removed for the melafix
-three power heads
-full saltwater tank
-75 gallons (switching to a 200 gallon soon)

Parameters:
Temp: 79.5
Salinity: 1.020 or 1.021 (some how got lower.. normally 1.024) added more after testing
NO2: 0
NO3: 20
PH: 7.8
Ammonia: 0
KH: 8 or 9
Calcium:380
Phosphates: 0.25

They eat:
-sea weed sheets
-have vitamins added to food
-have garlic extract added to their food
-frozen squid
-frozen mysis
-some times foods: krill, blood worms, mixed reef food, veggie rounds, silver sides, when they find snails, etc.

Water changes:
Normally more than once a week.
Several 5 gallon buckets
We use stress coat as water conditioner and add either instant ocean reef salt or instant ocean marine salt.

Has been set up for more than 3 years, started as fresh, added salt, stayed as brackish for a long while, slowly added salt and became full marine about 9 months ago.

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