Puff not eating

[msladydarkness]

The puff is a pork and he's about 5 months old. He's about 5 inches long. He coloring is good, fins and eyes are clear. Other tank mates doing fine (bluehead wrassse, cleaner wrasse, 2 baby oclerius clowns, diamond goby, orangetail filefish) are doing fine in the 125 with him. Noone has any signs of diseaes and everyone but him is eating. The puff maybe eating when I'm not looking, but usually he likes to be hand fed krill both frozen and dried, table shirmp, and a frozen multi-mix. Water conditions are good. He's not been feeding for 3 days now. I put some cravex in the water to see if it does anygood before I have to caatch him and put in Hospital tank.
You think it's just a prolonged growth spurt?:happyfish

 

[beth]

Mslady, are from pufferlover's old site? Your name looks familiar.
How is the puffer's teeth doing? Puffers need to be feed hard shelled foods to keep their teeth ground down. Otherwise, the teeth will end up growing up into the fish's head?
How is his eyes? Clear and alert? How about gills? Notice any swelling, redness or irregular breathing? Use a magnifying glass to give the fish a thorogh look over. Try offerring the fish his favority food by direct feedings with a turkey baster. See if he is interested. Also, take a look at the FAQ Thread at the top of this forum for a seafood receipe. In this case, you will want to keep all shells for any mix you come up with for puffers.
I'm going to also COPY your thread over to our Agressive Forum where pufferfish are commonly discussed. So check over there for input as well.