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Did you happen to do an autopsy? I lost a pignose 6 wks after getting him. I cut him open & found liver disease.

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What is the pH of your tapwater?

[span class="edited"][Edited by pufferpunk 2004-08-15 21:47][/span]

Yeah, I do 25% changes weekly and was not having any problems. I'm going to pick up a new ph test kit tomorrow...now I just need to figure out how to raise the ph slowly for my other tanks. I think they dropped when I switched water sources. Unfortanately I was unaware because my test kit was still reading the proper PH.

I never realized that PH test kits could become inaccurate, especially the liquid kind.

I'm almost sure now that I had a nigroviridis, despite what that store told me. Anyway, I was looking over the profiles in this site and noticed that it states that nigroviridis is a FW puffer. Is there some way to have that changed?

Yeah, I realize now that fluviatilis is the Ceylon Puffer, thanx for the info though!

Were you doing any water changes on that tank? I do 50% weekly on all my tanks.

There is only 1 GSP, the T nigroviridis. The T fluviatilis is the Ceylon puffer. It looks like s cross between a F8 (on it's back) & a GSP (spots on it's sides & belly). Both fish are high-end BW puffers that prefer SW as adults.

I think I figured out what caused his untimely death. I took a sample of my water into my LFS and discovered that my PH test kit was lying to me (probably due to it's age). My PH was almost 6.0.

Nigrovs have individual small spots all over there backs, while fluvs have larger, blotchier markings. I'm sure someone here can give you a better description, though.

I was wondering what the easiest way to tell Nigroviris and fluviatilis is. I'm beginning to think that Bloat was actually a nigroviridis. When I bought him I was told he was fluviatilis. Will keeping a nigroviridis in brackish water cause premature death?

I really had no idea either--but whey I saw a yellow rock where a soft pink liver was supposed to be, I figured something wasn't right. You could always have come over to my puffer forum for a diagnosis!

I thought about doing an autopsy, but the honest truth is that I wouldn't know what to look for so I didn't mess with it.

Jason

I lost my Green puffer today... He was such a wonderful puffer. He was my first brackish water fish. He went without warning so I'm not sure why he died. If it was illness I wish I could have known and done something about it. I will miss him.

Had you been feeding him snails to control his beak growth?

If you're talking to me, no I never fed him snails. There were plenty of snails in the tank but he showed no interest. I will admit that I was not as concerned as I should have been about the lack of appetite. I thought he might have been snacking on some of the snails when I wasn't watching. I did, however, feed him live crabs, live crayfish, nightcrawlers and thawed out shell-on shrimp.

He just gradually started losing interest in the shrimp. He would take bites at it but not get much off. The last meal he had was half of a nightcrawler. He got to the point where he wouldn't touch anything with a shell that I tried to feed him. It was almost like he couldn't bite through the shell.

Jason

Wow, sorry to both of you! Was your GSP in BW? Did you quarrantine the catfish before putting them in with him?

wow sorry for both of you losses!

Had you been feeding him snails to control his beak growth?

today was a bad puffer day for me. I came home from work and found my red congo puffer dead . He had been gradually eating less and less and finally stopped. I have no idea what was wrong but my 2 arrowheads are still doing great. I've never had a problem with them. I hope to try again with congos some day but it won't be any time soon.

Jason

Did he have any bumps on him, or was he frantically swimming up, and down, or shaking????? He may have took in an air buble. If this was the case, next time hold your puffer in a net, and and rub the bump with your finger and help him get it out. I saved mine that way.

Good luck in the future,
Brac

Yeah, and everything is normal. The only thing that has changed is I added a pair of catfish to the aquarium about 4 days ago.

im sorry for your loss

did you test the water to see if there was something wrong with it?