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.

 

[leopard_babe]

have you changed they brand of food you were feeding??? i went from feeding wardleys krill, to feeding rivershrimp. My puffer would not come near the stuff. I put the krill back in, and he ate once again. Just a thought. Puffers are rather smart, in my book. Could that be it???

 

[aysiana]

I once had a healthy puffer that stopped eating for no obvious reason. He was a blue sapo puffer. About 8 inches in length. Nothing else in the tank with him except for a few crabs and some live rock. I tried everything. Every medication....even though he had no signs of illness other than not wanting to eat and acting blind a bit lethargic. My fish guy even took him in on "hospice" care and tried everything he knew. We never figured out what was wrong with him. Nor did we discover any obvious illnesses. He eventually died.......many months later. Id say he had not eaten for me in probably two months before I finally turned him over to my fish guy. He still had meat on his bones.....he was thin....but didnt look like a dead fish swimming. Then it was maybe 3 more months or so that he lived in my fish guys care without eating before he finally passed away.

Now getting a little off topic.....sorry.....its my first post on here...
That was my very first fish, and my most favorite. I've had 3 fish since. A humu humu trigger, an unknown fish (my husband bought him because he was "pretty" and didnt bother to find out what he was), and most recently....a leaf lip soap fish. My husband was mostly responsible for the last three.....which may explain why they all died :notsure: Anyways, right now my tank is empty....Im on week 4 of my cycle. I switched out my crushed coral for live aragonite. Bleached and sundried all my live rock....very reluctantly....at the urging of my fish guy. And am planning on switching from my Eheim canister filter...to a sump set up. Of course, Ill be taking back over control of my tank cause Im hoping to get another blue sapo puffer....but I cant find one anywhere.....I was sure I'd find one on here....but I didnt. Anyone know any where I can look???

 

[irenicus]

I would try my best to get him to eat with a variety of foods. Try soaking the food in garlic to entice appetite.
He my be sick also. A hospital tank and keep the light low and try mussell, clam, shimp etc to see if there is a food he'll take.
Unfortunately, Pork Puffers have been known to stop eating for no apparent reason and waste away and die. These puffers were very healthy, they just stopped eating for unknown reasons.
I absolutely love my pork puff and would be very, very saddened if something happened to it. I wish you the best and hope the stavation anomolie is not what's going on.
Keep us updated.