The Puffer Forum

I came home yesterday to find my dogface puffer got stuck on the powerhead leading to my AquaC skimmer.

He was puffing and I can't imagine how long he was stuck for.

I noticed a really bad skin bruise with some reddish mark. No blood...mostly bruised. His skin has developed a goosebump-ish feel to it.

Now my question is, to prevent further infection, should I start adding pimafix or tetracycline ? This is while I am Hypo'ing him for ich treatment.

He's doing fine, he ate as normal and a little bit shy and hides away from the skimmer..His skin has shrunk down to normal size (his skin was really stretched out yesterday)


Stan

Ooh sorry to hear about that, i wonder how he got sucked into it? I have the same skimmer. Ive read a post on WetWebMedia about this same thing, except i think it was a valentini puffer. If you look at their website im sure you'll find it. I believe it said to add Melafix if it looks like theres an infection. From how you've described him, it sounds like he's doing alright though.

Cheers,
Bonnie