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Posted: **Sat Nov 07, 2020 4:59 am**

Help please.
Iv just bought 2 South American puffers and put them in a tank on there own (90l) when I put them in there were fine swimming and wanted food. Very active all through the night and when I woke this morning one of the puffers is breathing but lead on the bottom and every now and then he will move to a different place in the tank and lay there. I’m so worried if there’s any help out there I beg for it.
Thanks in advance.

Posted: **Sat Nov 07, 2020 10:10 am**

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Posted: **Sat Nov 07, 2020 11:07 am**

Db83 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 4:59 am Help please.
Iv just bought 2 South American puffers and put them in a tank on there own (90l) when I put them in there were fine swimming and wanted food. Very active all through the night and when I woke this morning one of the puffers is breathing but lead on the bottom and every now and then he will move to a different place in the tank and lay there. I’m so worried if there’s any help out there I beg for it.
Thanks in advance.

Nitrate 0
Nitrite 0
Ph 7.0
Kh 180

90 litre tank. Fed on live shrimp, blood worm, small rams horn.

Only fish in the tank. And I put them in the tank yesterday Iv also noticed that it’s got white spots on one so started a white spot treatment today. The tank has been set up for a week and a half.

Posted: **Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:35 pm**

Ammonia? How long has the tank been set up? How EXACTLY was it cycled? An established bacteria bed should be showing nitrate. What are you using for treatment?

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