The Puffer Forum

Alright I originally posted this at saltwaterfish.com but beg you all to please click my link help me save Huey. I still dont know what disease he has and dont know how to treat it.

http://www.saltwaterfish.com/vb/showthr ... ost2023409

My username on that site is 1fast300z.

Please reply on there or here, it doesnt matter. I love Pufferfish and would Hate to lose this guy.

please read the thread on that link guys and girls.

Thank you so much,
Peter

Excessive sliming, which is what that looks like to me, can be caused by many things, generally skin irritation. You'll probably have to keep the nitrates lower, chronically high nitrates cause puffers skin irritation and this could be a flare-up. Also, how do you do water changes? Increasing the SG will generally cause a refreshing of the slime coat and some of the old material will slough off.

Is there a way for you to take a sample and examine it under a microscope? (There is a type of algae that is whitish and stringy but I don't know if it would grow on a Puffer).

Hey, sorry I can't help with the fish, but do you have a Z?

There has got to be a reason those nitrates are so high. When's the last time you cleaned out your filter? What other tank mates are in there? What kind of subatrate? Do you have a sump/refugium? Are you using RODI water? What are the nitrates in your tap water?