Hello
I have a young porcupine puffer fish, named Squirt, who has a hole in one of his fins. I am not sure if this is some version of fin rot, a bad case of ich or if my pufferfish injured himself. Either way, I would like your opinions on what you believe it to be as well as the best way to treat him.
At the moment, he is acting normal. Begging for food, swimming around, sleeping at his normal time and reacting to us. See my answers to the normal questions below.
1) Your water parameters -
Nitrite: 0 ppm
PH: 7.8
Nitrate: 40 ppm
Ammonia: 0 ppm
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants - 46 gallons. He lives alone outside of some live rock and some live sand. He is the king of his own castle.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank -- He eats a small piece of frozen, "people" shrimp every other day. He is only about 2-3 inches (if even that big). So, this usually gives him a "food baby" that lasts until we feed him. We usually check his stomach to see if he needs to be fed. His water gets changed every 2 weeks about 30% each time. We are working on making this a weekly occurance. There are no other products in the tank. We try to keep it au-natural.
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. -- When we noticed the hole, we did a 50% water change and cleaned away all the algae we could find. Previous to that, though, there were no changes.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? -- The tank was cycled before we got Squirt for about a month. We have had him in that tank since we got him around May/June.
I attached a photo that shows the hole on his fin. One other thing I wanted to mention, is that we have the live rock in the tank and it's in a sort of "cave" form because we know puffers like to "get away" from humans and have "me time." However, there is a small section in the cave that he likes to WEDGE himself in. Like he barely fits. So, I am not sure if one day when he was sleeping there, wedged up, if he "ripped" his fin on one of the rocks. However, the other fin does have some of the "white" marks like the one with the hole.
Picture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GYKLxZG0Ie56zpyCr7ZjTMjwlOeyvkna/view?usp=sharing
I have a young porcupine puffer fish, named Squirt, who has a hole in one of his fins. I am not sure if this is some version of fin rot, a bad case of ich or if my pufferfish injured himself. Either way, I would like your opinions on what you believe it to be as well as the best way to treat him.
At the moment, he is acting normal. Begging for food, swimming around, sleeping at his normal time and reacting to us. See my answers to the normal questions below.
1) Your water parameters -
Nitrite: 0 ppm
PH: 7.8
Nitrate: 40 ppm
Ammonia: 0 ppm
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants - 46 gallons. He lives alone outside of some live rock and some live sand. He is the king of his own castle.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank -- He eats a small piece of frozen, "people" shrimp every other day. He is only about 2-3 inches (if even that big). So, this usually gives him a "food baby" that lasts until we feed him. We usually check his stomach to see if he needs to be fed. His water gets changed every 2 weeks about 30% each time. We are working on making this a weekly occurance. There are no other products in the tank. We try to keep it au-natural.
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. -- When we noticed the hole, we did a 50% water change and cleaned away all the algae we could find. Previous to that, though, there were no changes.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? -- The tank was cycled before we got Squirt for about a month. We have had him in that tank since we got him around May/June.
I attached a photo that shows the hole on his fin. One other thing I wanted to mention, is that we have the live rock in the tank and it's in a sort of "cave" form because we know puffers like to "get away" from humans and have "me time." However, there is a small section in the cave that he likes to WEDGE himself in. Like he barely fits. So, I am not sure if one day when he was sleeping there, wedged up, if he "ripped" his fin on one of the rocks. However, the other fin does have some of the "white" marks like the one with the hole.
Picture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GYKLxZG0Ie56zpyCr7ZjTMjwlOeyvkna/view?usp=sharing
