The Puffer Forum

So i made a bonehead move again. Not thinking a tank addition through fully. So a Condy anenome was recently added to my tank. I noticed a few days later that my GSP now has a pure white dot on the center of his back, I am assuming this is from a sting, If someone could confirm from the pic. If it is a sting is there any action i should be taking? Does the nem pose a threat to my puff? The nem did mange to work its way in a pocket in a piece of LR if it does need to be remove i think it will get destroyed. The puffs behavior hasn't changed at all so other than the dot he seems fine.



You can see the purple tips of the nem in the back.
40 long setup around a year ago
ph 8.4
ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
nitrate under 5
sg 1.030 ( had a salinity spike in the tank due to improper top offs working on getting this lowered with upcoming wcs)
temp 82

So the puff is still fine. He does seem really causious around the nem so I do think the white dot is from a sting. Anyone know if the color will come back to this spot or does he have this for good?

It might come back, not sure. HATE condys!

If I can get access to the nems foot I'll pull it out and bring it back to the lfs. I don't want to have to break the the piece of lr it fell into I may try to go at it with some ice cubes tomorrow. I feel really bad about him getting stung it was super timid to start off with. It let it's prior dragon/brown barred goby tank mate bully him. Another owner mistake. Are condos particularly bad? Not that I'm interested in another but are the other nem types that are less of a danger to our puffs?

Condys are serious stingers

If I do try to forcefully remove this nem anything I should be aware of?. Are the toxic at all? Does it pose any risk to the puff it it rips when I attempt to remove? Don't want to hurt my little guy anymore with this thing if I can avoid it.

No problems, other to the nem. My fingernail has always worked well.

Yea if I could get my finger at it I would remove it. But when it settled in it passed through and a 3/4" opening in the lr into a cavity a little bigger than a golfball. I was thinking if I hit it with some crushed ice it would close up and I could blow it out the top with a powerhead.

Couldn't get at the nem. But on the bright side the dot from the sting is gone just a tiny scar you can only see if your looking for it.

So the condy has come out of its hiding place. And it has stung my GSP again. About a week ago I added a small captive bred ocellaris. Is there another species of nem I could add for the clown that would be less harmful for the gsp?

Clowns don't need nems. Mine was hosted by a frogspawn & here they are being hosted by my leather:

Nem is getting pulled out in the morning. Thank you as always.