porcupine puffer

I’ve had my first puffer since July 21 of 2024, recently decided to buy another and put them together. I bought a fish breeding net to separate them for the time being while they both adjust, anything else I should do? 1” size difference between the two, no obvious signs of aggression, my larger...

I don't know what this is at all. Just looked up a few minutes ago to see my puffer trying to pass whatever this is. It's all stringy and looks almost like something sort of plant, but our tank only has rock. He's acting like normal but his droppings have never looked like this. I'm very worried...

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Just noticed today that my porcupine puffer, Steve, has two little brown lumps, one in front of his right fin and the other behind it. Doesn't seem to be impeding his swimming at all, and he's acting like his normal self. None of the other fish in the tank have any of these either. Just wondered...

Hi all. My porcupine puffer isn’t eating. I’ve tried krill, half clams, shrimp, and silversides. I’ve added garlic guard and a supplement that I give all my saltwater fish. I’ve tested water parameters ammonia 0 nitrite 0 nitrate .5. I’ve had him for around 6 months. He has no visible signs of...

Hello I have a 100 gallon salt water fish only tank that has ich. I have puffers, a large angle an eel and multiple wrasse. I really need to get the ich out and do not want to harm my puffers in the process. I would like to treat the whole tank. What is the best recommendations? I do not have...

Hi all, first post here - 48h ago I picked up a one eyed Porc Puffer from a local LFS. He’s tiny, 1/2 inches, and has got some sections of his slime coat shedding. There’s no white spots, no visible parasites, no fuzz or anything at all that I can see other than him seemingly generating mucus...

Unfortunately today, our porcupine puffer got into a scrap with our vampire tang after the vampire tang instigated a fight over some food. The puffer got a scalpel to the face and his upper lip is cut fairly deep, however there hasn't been any blood and doesn't seem to be any exposed flesh and...

I’ve had a baby porcupine puffer for a couple months now and he’s been very happy. But recently in the past few days I’ve noticed lots of erosion of his fins indicating some bullying by his other tank mates which i thought was strange as he’s been fine the entire time i’ve had him in my tank...

Hello! I got my puffer a couple weeks ago, experienced a spike in nitrates and ammonia. That spike has been resolved. I have a 40 gallon tank and planning on upgrading soon. He was very lethargic but once the ammonia spike went down he started swimming around more. He is eating perfectly fine...

My porcupine puffer, that I've had for over 3 years, has gone on the occasional hunger strike but never for this long. There were a couple of days where he ate, but then went back into hiding in his cave and hasn't eaten anything in over 10 days when he used to come up and beg for food at dinner...

Hey there! So recently my parents got me a porcupine puffer for my birthday, and we have him in quarantine at the moment before he can go into our 215 gallon. However, I've noticed that he keeps 'pacing' the tank and is rubbing his lips on the walls which is ultimately hurting him (the scales in...

Meet Chewy, he's the most attentive craved lil man. I have checked everything inside his tank. Water and everything is perfect. I have noticed almost a week ago, something caused his eye distress and it's white and looks sore. We have rocks and I wonder if he poked his eye on a rock or...

Good morning, will a porcupine puffer eat softies and zoanthids? Would like to hear from those who kept them before.

Hello, I'm very new to the forums. I work at a LFS where we keep puffers, currently a dogface and a porcupine, both around 4-5 inches. They've arrived about a few weeks ago and I've been treating them for ich with herbtana and artemiss (so far, they're doing much better, each day better than the...

Tank has been established for 13 Months and he has been in this tank for 5 months Parameters Ammonia 0ppm NO3 1-2 ppm NO2 0,025 ppm salinity 35 ppt Ph 7,3 Hello everybody, i have a very urgent emergency. I just came back from work and found my porcupine puffer completely puffed up. In general...

Hello everyone, it's me again, you may recognize my name as I have been having a lot of fish related bad luck this past week with 1 fish dying and 2 more becoming ill, all-in different tanks. I was on the forum yesterday and today to get to the bottom of my sick snowflake eel who I suspect has...

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My porcupine pufferfish has a cloudy patch on her right fin and seems to have a bit of a torn tail. I just noticed today after watching her eat. She was breathing a little heavy after feeding but she seems to do that sometimes. I have also only ever seen her puff up on a few occasions but saw...

Hello, I found out yesterday my puffer has developed ich. Picture below. I have a total of 4 fish in my tank including my puffer. How do I go about treating it in a QT. I just set one up today. Can I put all of them inside with out cycling my QT tank. When I hit the therapeutic levels of...

My porcupine puffer is acting completely normal and eating just fine, but he has weird cloudy patches in fins that weren’t there yesterday. Does anyone know what this is??