The Puffer Forum

After much personal research, I think I have come up with the cause of lockjaw in puffers and predatory fish that have a history of being fed only or large amounts of freeze dried krill. I have written a preliminary paper and presented my hypothesis to Drs Noga, Lewbart, Stoskopf and Harms at a recent Fish Health Conference. They all seem to think that I am on the "right track" and are willing to do the official research.

They are in need of deceased puffers or other predatory fish (lionfish, triggers, groupers, etc). They have to be shipped to NCSU and CAN NOT be frozen. They have to be refrigerated and shipped asap, overnight in a cooler. In addition to the necropsy, they will be doing histiopath and blood work. I will be posting all the shipping info, etc soon....if a fish dies before then, please PM me & I can get the info sooner.

Please - let's spread the word and get to the bottom of this horrible condition.

My preliminary article will be published soon - I will let all know the magazine/publication date.

Looking forward to read the article.

If you haven't already I'd send this post to WetWebMedia, too. Questions about sick fish, which have been fed mainly krill occur there quite frequently and this site has lots of daily readers.

I was just gonna say that. I can't wait to have an article to link to about this!

I am looking forward to this too