ZombieEngineer
Valuable Member
I got a blue spot puffer earlier today. It was out and about at the LFS and seemed in pretty good shape (I forgot to ask them to feed the fish before I got it, but they said it was eating fine when they called me a week ago that it arrived). I performed my normal acclimation process of 15 minute float in QT to temp acclimate followed by a fast drip acclimation (30 minutes 10x volume increase) and netted the puffer and the flame into the quarantine.
I did not realize until after I had done this that netting and exposing to air a puffer is a HUGE NO-NO. It didn't appear to inflate, so that is a plus, but it has been hiding in the corner for the past 6 hours and did not eat. It gave a mildly interested look at one piece of mysis but made no attempt to catch anything.
I am probably just over-reacring and the fish is just too stressed to eat today and will be fine tomorrow, but Im worried I may have damaged the puffer from that air exposure and netting. Any recommendations to save this guy? Is there a specific kind of live food that might coax him into eating?
I did not realize until after I had done this that netting and exposing to air a puffer is a HUGE NO-NO. It didn't appear to inflate, so that is a plus, but it has been hiding in the corner for the past 6 hours and did not eat. It gave a mildly interested look at one piece of mysis but made no attempt to catch anything.
I am probably just over-reacring and the fish is just too stressed to eat today and will be fine tomorrow, but Im worried I may have damaged the puffer from that air exposure and netting. Any recommendations to save this guy? Is there a specific kind of live food that might coax him into eating?
