A day or two before leaving for vacation, my puffer wasnt eating right. He would swim to the top and take a bite of his shrimp, and spit it out and go hide somewhere. Well, go on m four day vacation and my roomy cant get him to eat at all. When I get home I find him lying on the bottom. This is weird because normally he is right to the glass to greet me and swims and paces all over until I give him so food. Nothing, no movement, breathing slowly, no response to food at all, colors blotchy. Well, managed to startle him and he freaked out, banging through all the decor with almost 0 sense of where hes going. He keeps startling himself and doing this as well. Once the spasm stops he hits the gravel and goes back to no movement. His eyes look a little fuzzy, and his tail fin is white on the bottom segment. Two days now, no food, no swimming unless spasming, nothing. I watched him spasm so bad last night he was face in the gravel pirouetting until it stopped. Also, when he hits the glass during these spasms he is biting it mouth wide open. Is it possible he has some sort of IP creating muscle control issues, or nervous system problem, or maybe blind? What can I do. I know hes gonna refuse to eat if this keeps up and he will die a slow and agonizing spasm filled death. Thanks for any and all help.
Abei puffer sick? Infected? Whats going on?!
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2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it?
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.