The Puffer Forum

Ive seen it swim up and down agianst the glass like it wants to get out.
And i hardly ever see it turn away from the glass.

Then it swims to a corner, digs a hole in the sand, curls up and just sits there. Not even flaping its fins.

And i RARELY see it eat.

Also, the belly is still white, just that the area where the green meets the white part, sometimes a black line, and sometimes none.

Its tank mate, a F8 Puffer, about the same size. Been doing fine, eating swiming around looking for snails ect.

I tryed droping a crush snail infront of it, it swam up to it slowly but my f8 got to it first...

What could it be?

What are the water parameters? How is the tank decorated? What size is the tank? How big are they?

You do know, I hope, that the F8 and GSP both have different water requirements. The F8 is low end brackish while the GSP will need high end brackish when its an adult.

Water parameters would help. Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH, SG.

How long have you had him? How big's the tank?

The tank is a 30gal.

Sand, with alot of tall plastic plants.

He was swiming around and happy in the LFS tank with all the other puffers. I asked them what the water level was. They said it was around 1.005, and that is what my tank here is set up to.

The two puffers are about 1inch

Just a lil info, i used to own a freshwater rainbow fish tank. This is my first shot at puffers and brackish =[

Please answer the questions I asked in my post above. Especially if the fish was fine before it went into your tank. It's important to know these things, to figure out what's wrong. If you don't have a test kit, bring some water into your LFS & have them test it.