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Hi there!

I picked up my figure 8 puffers from my LFS a couple hours ago and I've been drip acclimating them in a bucket for the past 30 minutes (which is why the photo is such poor quality. The bucket blurs it a little). They've been eating well which is a good sign but I'm a little concerned about one of them. One has these weird little circles on it's body and I'm wondering if it's something I should be concerned about or not. I haven't been able to find a picture online of something similar. The circles are under it's eyes and there's one by it's stomach area too.

My LFS just got the figure 8s in today as well. All I was able to find out is that the puffers were transported in FW with a high pH.

Is it a flat or raised?

Probably bites from another puff

hadla wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2017 7:17 pmProbably bites from another puff

That's what I was thinking! Phew, what a relief!

Pufferpunk wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2017 5:56 pm Is it a flat or raised?

They're flat. I did some more digging online after I submitted the first post and I think they're bites. I'm still going to treat for internal parasites just in case though.

They're both settled now and eating more than the first day. I'm just wondering how I can get them to eat more hard foods? One of the puffers doesn't seem interested in eating harder foods. It'll try to eat a snail, fail and then swim away. I tried to tempt it with shrimp but it wasn't interested. It seems to really enjoy bloodworms though.

Try crushing the snails.
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Pufferpunk wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2017 10:48 am Try crushing the snails.
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I've tried crushing the snails but since I made that post that puffer still hasn't eaten anything. I've tried putting bloodworms in (he ate those when I first got him. Heck, he even went after crushed snail when I first got him.), I've soaked food in garlic, but nothing. Since I've gotten him, he's had a strangely lumpy stomach and when I got him, I thought it was just food. I think the first couple of days since I've had him, he's eaten some bloodworms and showed interest in snails but for the last couple of days (maybe the last week), he hasn't eaten anything at all. The lump in his stomach is still there but his head and the upper half of his stomach is starting to look a little thin. I'm concerned that he might have IPs. I've been treating the food, but he hasn't been eating it. I think he's becoming lethargic as well. Not sure what to do. Please help

The other puffer is doing really well, eating everything, has a rounded belly, swimming happily and I think it even recognizes me now!

I did a 50% water change yesterday and I just fed them (bloodworms and snails). The one puffer still hasn't eaten. Showed absolutely no interest.

Water parameters based on the API test kit:
pH: 7.4 (Normally it is around 7.8-8 but I think this change is from the water change yesterday)
Ammonia: 0ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: 20ppm

They're currently in freshwater but I will be adjusting them to brackish in a couple weeks. My LFS said they were coming from a freshwater source as well.