Hello I have had my porcupine pufferfish
for about 15 months since she was about 2 inches. She was my first saltwater fish and has been doing very well. She got ich about 12 months ago and was treated with copper power and hasn’t gotten ill since. Yesterday I was feeding her and she seemed to be acting a little different. Still had the appetite of a horse but after wards was breathing a little heavy and was hanging out near the top of the tank for about an hour before going back down towards the bottom but still going back up to the top every once in a while, she was also a little pale but her color came back after an hour. I did not over feed her I believe as there was no deformation of her belly. My main concern however are these tiny holes I found on her right fin. It looks like 2 or 3 of them with cloudy white stuff around them. Her tail also has a very small tear on the end that is barely noticeable. I’m not sure if it’s fin rot or another problem. I just recently lost both of my triggers in the same tank too very suddenly and with little warning. My blue throat started swimming backwards and was dead the next morning with clear goo coming out of its eye and my niger trigger started breathing heavy, I did a fw dip to check for flukes which came up with nothing, ammonia was 0 I moved to qt where he started swimming sideways then upside down, I tried to medicate with antibiotics and he died soon after. I’m starting to suspect water problems. My parameters have been reading
Ammonia 0 ppm
Nitrite 0ppm
Nitrate 15ppm
Salinity 1.024
Temp 79F
pH 7.8
The other day I tested again after noticing my puffer and it was
Ammonia 1 ppm
Nitrite 0 ppm
Nitrate 20 ppm
Salinity 1.023
Temp 79F
pH 7.6
The pH is what worries me as I’m not sure what could have caused it to drop I did water change a week ago and tested 2 days later and the pH was 7.8.
My blue throat died in the tank overnight and was starting to decompose when I found him 3 days ago which I suspect is why the ammonia went up but I did a water change maybe not enough. But all of this happened over the last few days.
Also the puffers tank mates are a panther grouper ( medium ) and a snowflake eel ( large ). I don’t believe either one bit the puffer. They all also get fed on a rotation kind of. I feed every other day and it will be silversides or scallops and with every feeding they get a large cube of mysis with spirulina. They also get the ocasional clam.
Also recently I got this weird green algae growing on the glass that won’t come off. Is this a sign of bad water?
for about 15 months since she was about 2 inches. She was my first saltwater fish and has been doing very well. She got ich about 12 months ago and was treated with copper power and hasn’t gotten ill since. Yesterday I was feeding her and she seemed to be acting a little different. Still had the appetite of a horse but after wards was breathing a little heavy and was hanging out near the top of the tank for about an hour before going back down towards the bottom but still going back up to the top every once in a while, she was also a little pale but her color came back after an hour. I did not over feed her I believe as there was no deformation of her belly. My main concern however are these tiny holes I found on her right fin. It looks like 2 or 3 of them with cloudy white stuff around them. Her tail also has a very small tear on the end that is barely noticeable. I’m not sure if it’s fin rot or another problem. I just recently lost both of my triggers in the same tank too very suddenly and with little warning. My blue throat started swimming backwards and was dead the next morning with clear goo coming out of its eye and my niger trigger started breathing heavy, I did a fw dip to check for flukes which came up with nothing, ammonia was 0 I moved to qt where he started swimming sideways then upside down, I tried to medicate with antibiotics and he died soon after. I’m starting to suspect water problems. My parameters have been reading
Ammonia 0 ppm
Nitrite 0ppm
Nitrate 15ppm
Salinity 1.024
Temp 79F
pH 7.8
The other day I tested again after noticing my puffer and it was
Ammonia 1 ppm
Nitrite 0 ppm
Nitrate 20 ppm
Salinity 1.023
Temp 79F
pH 7.6
The pH is what worries me as I’m not sure what could have caused it to drop I did water change a week ago and tested 2 days later and the pH was 7.8.
My blue throat died in the tank overnight and was starting to decompose when I found him 3 days ago which I suspect is why the ammonia went up but I did a water change maybe not enough. But all of this happened over the last few days.
Also the puffers tank mates are a panther grouper ( medium ) and a snowflake eel ( large ). I don’t believe either one bit the puffer. They all also get fed on a rotation kind of. I feed every other day and it will be silversides or scallops and with every feeding they get a large cube of mysis with spirulina. They also get the ocasional clam.
Also recently I got this weird green algae growing on the glass that won’t come off. Is this a sign of bad water?