shells1525
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(Reposted from fish disease) My Puffer fish is acting very lethargic. He won't eat and sleeps all day. He hasn't moved in 24 hours. Usually he gets very excited when I feed frozen food and even swims around my hands and plays with me. He did not come out to eat, so I brought the food to him. I "picked him up" and put the food right in front of him and nothing. He didn't fight or eat. I let him go and he just slowly sank back to the bottom of the tank. He just sits on the substrate. I have not had him but maybe a month. I know he's alive becuase I can see him breathing and his fins moving a little. About a week ago I added an anemone to the tank.
55 gallon tank, been established almost 10 years. Sand as substrate. About 40 pounds of live rock in the tank.
Water parameters:
nitrites:0
nitrates: 0
Alkalinity: 300
PH: 8.2
Salinity: 1.026
water temp: 79 degrees
Feeding: flakes twice a day- once a day soaked in GVH(garlic, vitamins, and HUFAs) and once a day soaked in Selcon. Feeding algae on the clip once a day and then either frozen food or live food once a day (night). Frozen food is either: Krill, myesis shrimp, squid, brine shrimp, or live brine shrimp.
We started the soaking with the selcon and GVH just last week.
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Tank mates:
clown fish pair
Koran angel (juvenile)
damsel
inverts:
anemone
hermit crabs
cowry snail
bumblebee snails
everyone else is happy (except the Koran has HLLE since we got him, hense the supplements)
I use carbon in my filter as I have an emperor filter system. I have a power head that circulates water that I turn on about 6 hours a day 750 gph (only one) Reef lighting, but no corals. Light is on a timer from 10am-8pm
Any help for my puffer would be greatly appreciated!
55 gallon tank, been established almost 10 years. Sand as substrate. About 40 pounds of live rock in the tank.
Water parameters:
nitrites:0
nitrates: 0
Alkalinity: 300
PH: 8.2
Salinity: 1.026
water temp: 79 degrees
Feeding: flakes twice a day- once a day soaked in GVH(garlic, vitamins, and HUFAs) and once a day soaked in Selcon. Feeding algae on the clip once a day and then either frozen food or live food once a day (night). Frozen food is either: Krill, myesis shrimp, squid, brine shrimp, or live brine shrimp.
We started the soaking with the selcon and GVH just last week.
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Tank mates:
clown fish pair
Koran angel (juvenile)
damsel
inverts:
anemone
hermit crabs
cowry snail
bumblebee snails
everyone else is happy (except the Koran has HLLE since we got him, hense the supplements)
I use carbon in my filter as I have an emperor filter system. I have a power head that circulates water that I turn on about 6 hours a day 750 gph (only one) Reef lighting, but no corals. Light is on a timer from 10am-8pm
Any help for my puffer would be greatly appreciated!
