Puffer still alive.......need help ASAP

[dayta01]

I posted a thread earlier about my sick porcupine puffer. Since then, my water parameters have not changed. If anything they are much better since then. I have done 20% water changes every day for the past few days, and still he has not gotten better. He is just lying on the sand underneath my rock, breathing heavily and not moving at all. He is also extremely thin. He's lost his appetite, and I cant seem to entice him to come out and try to eat anything. I have also recently just set up a QT tank, in case I have to medicate. However, I can find no evidence of parasitic infection or anything else. I am just nervous to put him in a QT tank due to his incredibly weakened state. I am amazed he has lasted so long....it has been at least a week since he began to act stressed out. PLEASE ANYONE HELP. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. He is still alive but I don't know for how much longer..........

 

[beth]

Is his skills still red? I would go ahead and move him to the QT. Begin hyposalinity which is described in the FAQ Thread at the top of this forum and also begin treating with Maracyn Two for SW fish.

 

[dayta01]

Sorry Beth, but my puffer just passed on. I had checked my QT tank water parameters and they looked OK, so I put him in a couple of hours ago. Then, I looked at the tank and found he was dead. Do you think it was the wrong choice to move him in such a weakened state? At least in my display he was still alive. I just hope it wasn't my decision that killed him.
Oh, and his gills were still red like before, though not as much. He was also extremely thin, but that was most likely due to the fact that he hadn't eaten anything in almost a week. Could it have been that he simply starved himself to the point of sickness, or is the other way around more likely?