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Hi guys, yesterday my dwarf puffer swallowed an air bubble while eating. for a while after that I "burped," him and some air came out. Then I decided to let him pass the air by himself. Which he did by the way. After that he seemed really tired and couldn't really move, so I let him sleep. It was 10:30 PM by that time anyway. Now it is the morning and I have spent the last hour trying to get him to eat some bloodworms, and he can barely move to get them, usually he just misses them entirely. What Should I do?

By the way the PH is around 6.5, the tank has been cycled for almost a year now, the only other inhabitant is a neocaridina shrimp, and the tank is a 3 gallon and pretty heavily planted with a sponge filter.

He might just be traumatized from the whole thing. What is the pH coming from your tap?

The PH is around 7.1

I guess you're right about the traumatization. I did just feed him a couple of bloodworms and he seems a little better. (I have been trying to feed them all day.)I'm posting some videos on Youtube now so you can see if he looks like he can come back from almost being dead.

Hi guys I know that my recent posts haven't been approved, but my DP is okay now. He was just swimming around and following my finger like he always does. Thank you for your help Pufferpunk!

Sorry, I'm on vacation and just got to the Forum before bed. Glad he's doing better! Find out why your pH is dropping so low.

Yea I think it's low because the tank has a lot of driftwood, but I'm slowly raising the PH up.

Glad your fish is better! And good call, you're gonna want to keep the pH as close to that 7.1 as possible.

Yeah, I would find some Decor other than driftwood.