Lethargic puffer
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 12:24 am
So I have two green spotted puffers from good old Wally World (Walmart). Im learning as I go here, cause I thought they were cute so I bought them, turns out they are complicated fishies. Anyways I have a really healthy one, loves to eat and swim all over the place. What concerns me about this one however is, that he has equally spaced white dots all over his body, they look like pores on a person, is that normal? I read about ich but I'm not sure if that is the problem but just in case I'm treating it with "Kordon rapid cure ich disease treatment".
As for my other puffer, I bought it because he looked like he wasn't doing so good and I wanted to help the little guy out. I bought him lethargic, but very active thinking that maybe he just wasn't getting enough food cause well.. its Walmart. Anyways I've been trying to bring it back to life but he's super stressed all the time. Sometimes his belly will be white, no "stress line", and he's swimming around all over. Other times he's got a grey belly, a "stress line", and he's making the c shape, and he will most of the time get stuck in the filter. Also he will eat but not as aggressively as my other puffer, he just kinda picks at the food. He is obviously stressed but Im unsure why, he has oxygen, a clean tank, and food. Also I don't know if this information is needed but his poop is a lot more stringy like he didn't fully digest the worms. While the more healthy one has solid, rat turd kinda poop.
So, for the tank I have a 10 gallon for two, barely over an inch puffers. They have places to hide and one moss ball thing. They are fed blood worms (cold) and I've ordered some ramshorn snails for them because I read that they like those and it helps with their teeth. I do 50% water changes weekly (except the first change I did about 25% because I didn't want to stress them out too much), and I'm very slowly adding marine salt to their aquarium, a little less than a tablespoon per week (I've only had them for 3 weeks) because I've read that they are brackish fish. When the second puffer gets stressed it is random, and it happened before I started adding salt.
As for my other puffer, I bought it because he looked like he wasn't doing so good and I wanted to help the little guy out. I bought him lethargic, but very active thinking that maybe he just wasn't getting enough food cause well.. its Walmart. Anyways I've been trying to bring it back to life but he's super stressed all the time. Sometimes his belly will be white, no "stress line", and he's swimming around all over. Other times he's got a grey belly, a "stress line", and he's making the c shape, and he will most of the time get stuck in the filter. Also he will eat but not as aggressively as my other puffer, he just kinda picks at the food. He is obviously stressed but Im unsure why, he has oxygen, a clean tank, and food. Also I don't know if this information is needed but his poop is a lot more stringy like he didn't fully digest the worms. While the more healthy one has solid, rat turd kinda poop.
So, for the tank I have a 10 gallon for two, barely over an inch puffers. They have places to hide and one moss ball thing. They are fed blood worms (cold) and I've ordered some ramshorn snails for them because I read that they like those and it helps with their teeth. I do 50% water changes weekly (except the first change I did about 25% because I didn't want to stress them out too much), and I'm very slowly adding marine salt to their aquarium, a little less than a tablespoon per week (I've only had them for 3 weeks) because I've read that they are brackish fish. When the second puffer gets stressed it is random, and it happened before I started adding salt.
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