what is going on with my puffer??

[peckhead]

my puffer is sitting on a rock and it looks like he has little pieces of CC under him along with pieces of brine shrimp possibly from last nights feeding and the food keeps floating up from under him and he is just sitting there. the CC wasnt there last night. and last night he had a lump on one side of him but i thought it was because he just ate. is this normal behavior?

 

[renogaw]

can you post a picture?

 

[peckhead]

not right now but possibly later...i doubt it would be a good picture where you would be able to tell anything...can i have any info?

 

[peckhead]

he has been sitting in the same spot for an hour now taht i know of. we have a black molly in the tank since it started and yesterday i saw the molly and it looked like something has been munching on him a little bit. he looked like his head was a little white and all his fins are eatin. could this be why the puffer is like this? is he eating the molly? is it bad that the molly still in there? its like impossible to get him out because he is in the rocks all day and night...

 

[peckhead]

ok. just fed them..he wont eat...should i get him out of the tank? and could the molly be causing these problems?

 

[renogaw]

wish i could help, i don't have a puffer

 

[renogaw]

wait... you have a brackish molly in your tank? what kind of puffer?

 

[peckhead]

a brackish molly and a brackish puffer but the brackish puffer isnt the one actign wierd. we have another puffer. im not sure exactly what kind it is but its like purplish and sometimes greenish. covered in spots that are light blue. it is a dwarf puffer. thats all i know...

 

[peckhead]

i went to take a pictrue of him and he moved...i had to take the background off the tank to get the picture. but still. he has been tehre all mourning for like 2+ hours now that i know of. and he didnt eat when fed. im going to post picture in a minute or so

 

[peckhead]

thats where he was before i scared him away. now he is hiding in the rocks... :help:

 

[renogaw]

i would definitely try to find out what type of puffer you have. what if its a saltwater puffer and you ahve it in brackish water? what if the two aren't compatible? what size tank?

 

[peckhead]

i know for a fact taht i have a saltwater puffer(the one that is acting wierd) and a brackish puffer who is acting normal. both are in the same tank. the brackish one has been in there for a month and the saltwater puffer has been in ther for less than a week

 

[renogaw]

i'd say that's your problem. brackish water is closer to freshwater than it is to saltwater (ocean water). its basically the water that is at the end of rivers, or pools of water near the ocean. it is NOT salt water, and you're probably killing your puffer by putting it in there.

 

[peckhead]

THE BRACKISH PUFFER IS OK! the saltwater puffer is not ok..or maybe it is..that is what im trying to figure out. is the puffer in the picture ok based on the things i mentioned. siting on one rock for hours at a time. not eating. now hiding for hours in the rocks. yesterday he had a lump in his belly on the right(possibly left) side of him after feeding. some one please help

 

[renogaw]

ok....
you have a SALTWATER puffer in your BRACKISH system, and the SALTWATER puffer is not doing well? or am i totally misreading you?
cause if im not, you have the wrong fish in your tank. you should not have a SALTWATER fish in a BRACKISH system.

 

[renogaw]

per her request, im shutting up about her system. hopefully someone else can help her.

 

[peckhead]

to clear things up. its a SALTWATER TANK. there are 2 brackish fish but taht has nothign to do with the other fish other than what i said about the molly previously...

 

[peckhead]

would it be smart to remove my rock and get the molly out or can i leave it and hopefully the puffer will eat it and that will be that and the puffer will go back to normal?????
the molly and puffer are both in the rocks. maybe he is eating him now? maybe not. i realyl dont no what to do...

 

[dragonzim]

To put all these brackishsaltwater questions to rest, what is your SG at? What other fish do you have in there, or is it just the mollie and the 2 puffers?

 

[fishstix4u]

wow... still after all i saw... i can still be surprised.. hunnie... you havea saltwater tank? you have brackish fish.. go change the oil in your car and use koolaid... beter yet lemonaid... 100 bucks says she doesnt have a hydrometer.. sorry.. thats not in the true nature of this place... please tell us what your salinity is at... then please decide what you want it to be.. salt or brackish.. then when you actually decide what you want.. REMOVE THE FISH THAT CANT SURVIVE AND RETURN IT...