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02-23-2009, 03:01 AM
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Help Porcupine Puffer is worse!!
His eye is now cloudy and I cant get him to eat. Ive tried feeding him with a target skewer and he wont take it. Ive tried food soaked in garlic, mysis, clam, squid and krill. He is very inactive and Im really worried. Any advice is really appreciated. thanks!!
 
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#2
02-23-2009, 04:27 AM
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Bump...anyone have a good med for treating an eye infection you can recommend?
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#3
02-23-2009, 05:44 AM
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Does your little guy have places to hide. I know Griffie loves his caves and tunnels. I also know Griffie is more nocturnal, and is pretty inactive during the day. When he came home I spent hours building tunnels and caves for my puffer.
Perhaps after lights out you might see the little fellow venture out more. He is so tiny perhaps he is a little overwhelmed with all the attention and activity. I know with the food Griff did not have much interest in prawns and such. He really LOVES the frozen pureed blend of seafood mix I mentioned before. I also noticed Griff did not have a huge interest in food for the first few days after coming home. He did eat, but until I started making his "puffer chow", he was not anything like his now. He ate my clownfish before he ate prawns. I don't know what medication you can give him. My LFS gave me orange gel caps for my sick Majestic angel. I never asked what they were since I was more concerned about making her better and getting instructions on dosing the meds. I hope we are all concerned about nothing and he just needs time to adapt. I have never seen such a little puffer before. I would imagine he is very overwhelmed with being caught, transported, going to the store and now a new tank. That is a lot for a little baby to absorb in a short period of time. I am hoping the bite might be from the LFS prior to him coming home. GIve him a little space to hide from everyone else at night time in case he is being picked on by the others. Was he in a tank with other puffers at the store?
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#4
02-23-2009, 03:09 PM
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Puffer died
found him this morning dead.
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02-23-2009, 03:30 PM
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Oh geez I am so very sorry about your loss. They are such wonderful fish. That really sucks.
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#7
02-23-2009, 06:53 PM
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JL AQuatics Sucks
I phoned them this morning and explained what had happened and they sad that they will not replace any fish. I bought lots of fish before that have died,I mean we all have. BUT, this fish was damaged when I got him. I think that they should replace the fish. They are going to lose 2 customers because of it, but Im sure this means nothing to them. thanks for listening to me vent.
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#8
02-23-2009, 08:51 PM
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I lost 6 Scissor Tail gobies over the past few weeks and I feel they were sick to begin with (because other fish in my tank never just die and the gobies are suppose to be tough) and I should be able to get a credit or something. But I will not even bother asking since I know it won't happen  Like I said, great, great shop but I have never understood their policy or lack of one for fish that die within a few days. Many of the places I used to shop at in the US would just ask that you bring the fish in or take pics and sometimes a water sample. Then replace it or give you a credit. Seems easy enough but I guess they don't want to take the loss.
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#9
02-23-2009, 07:01 PM
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bah, sorry to hear this.
Only thing I can reccomend is possibly dividing the tank somehow when adding another puffer until the are comparable in size... Sorry again...
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#10
02-23-2009, 07:03 PM
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Porcupine Puffer
That is really good advice and I will do that next time. Thank you!!!!!!
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