Figure 8 Stressed and not Eating
Posted: Tue May 26, 2015 7:06 pm
My figure 8 puffer seems sick and/or stressed. He attempts to eat defrosted brine shrimp, but then spits it out. He doesn't swim around like he normally does, he hides. It's very hard to get him to come up to the side of the tank, but he normally comes right up to me whenever I am near the tank. I have had him about a month, and before yesterday morning he seemed happy and healthy. I'm new to puffer keeping, and I don't know what's wrong with him.
-Ammonia/Nitrite/Nitrate - Unknown, on the way to buy a test kit now.
-Specific Gravity - Between 0.004 and 0.008 (around 0.006-7) (Instant Ocean salt)
-Food - Freeze dried brine shrimp/defrosted brine shrimp. I am also going to try to feed him a mussel, a prawn, and a crab leg.
-He is the only fish in his tank, which is a 26 gallon bowfront. He is about an inch and a half long. He has various plastic plants and a piece of driftwood. He has sand substrate on the bottom of the tank and an oxygen bubbler.
-The tank has been set up for about two weeks, he went into it immediately, but the tank came with a bottle of ammonia-eating bacteria and I put in the required initial dose and the required weekly dose. The water has not been changed, I am going to do that today.
-Over the four-day weekend my family and I went away, his tank light was left on the entire time, and someone came by to feed him every day.
Could he be sick, or is he just stressed? I will update this later today, after testing the ammonia and new food. Also, some info on puffer diseases would be much appreciated. Thanks!
-Ammonia/Nitrite/Nitrate - Unknown, on the way to buy a test kit now.
-Specific Gravity - Between 0.004 and 0.008 (around 0.006-7) (Instant Ocean salt)
-Food - Freeze dried brine shrimp/defrosted brine shrimp. I am also going to try to feed him a mussel, a prawn, and a crab leg.
-He is the only fish in his tank, which is a 26 gallon bowfront. He is about an inch and a half long. He has various plastic plants and a piece of driftwood. He has sand substrate on the bottom of the tank and an oxygen bubbler.
-The tank has been set up for about two weeks, he went into it immediately, but the tank came with a bottle of ammonia-eating bacteria and I put in the required initial dose and the required weekly dose. The water has not been changed, I am going to do that today.
-Over the four-day weekend my family and I went away, his tank light was left on the entire time, and someone came by to feed him every day.
Could he be sick, or is he just stressed? I will update this later today, after testing the ammonia and new food. Also, some info on puffer diseases would be much appreciated. Thanks!