The Puffer Forum

So I've finally gotten my all of my puffers to eat dead food, yay! They also seem much more content in the new living arrangements. My newest problem is that the one that took the longest to get on bloodworms seems to have IP's. I read the puffpedia entry on dosing them, and I'm doing all that correctly. He eats well now, but he isn't gaining weight. It's only been a week that he's been eating the worms, though so I don't know if that's normal. He's quite skinny looking down on him, even when his belly looks full. I have PraziPro and ParaGuard on hand, and fed worms soaked in PraziPro and dosed Paraguard. I don't know if it's okay to soak the worms in PraziPro but I did, so I'm hoping so. He will also eat krill so far, so if that will work better I can do that, too.
I'm a bit worried that it's too late to help him, I've read on some sites that when they get very skinny it can be too late. I know that he at least got some worm innards/meds but he seems much hungrier than usual today too.

Any help on treating the puffs and making sure he gets enough medication would be very much appreciated!

Does every meal you give have the meds in them?

Yes, it does.

You may need to switch IP meds. Different IPs respond to different meds.

Good to know PufferPunk. Best of luck antelope.

I think I found some part or parts of the problem, and it may not all be parasite related. I first got him to eat dead food with krill and after he ate the worms a few times, I assumed he would be fine eating those. I don't think he has been eating them for a couple days now. He still seems very hungry. Put him in a small cup to eat by himself so I could monitor his food intake and tried krill. He ate the krill, eyeballs first. So I suppose it's back to feeding him krill for me.

Also, he gets shy when I give him snails and won't eat them when I'm watching. Does anyone else have this happen? Any other time I feed him, he follows my tweezers/hands around like a puppy.

antelope wrote: he gets shy when I give him snails and won't eat them when I'm watching. Does anyone else have this happen? Any other time I feed him, he follows my tweezers/hands around like a puppy.

They do have personality, dont they?

Krill needs to be kept as a treat, it has links to lockjaw in puffers. If he is eating worms and snails stick to those as a staple and use krill as a treat

Oh, he doesn't like eating worms and eats way more snails than I can keep stocked. Are mysis shrimp okay if he will eat those?

Mysis is good

And another problem, he ate brine shrimp tonight, I walked away, and when I came out he was regurgitating all the shrimp. I didn't count how many he ate, and now he doesn't seem interested in food now.