NEED HELP WITH DWARF PUFFER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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oc435

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a few weeks ago i got a dwarf puffer and put it (it is to young to tell the gender) in a 2.5 gallon tank with 2 small plants and no other fish. it constantly had it's tail curved a lot, but it was eating the blood worms i gave it (it is to small to eat them but it bites them and sucks the blood out) so i thought that if i let it be for awhile it would get used to the new tank. this did not work so i went to my LFs and got another, bigger plant and put that in, but it is still scared and still curves it's tail and does not swim very much, so if anyone could tell me what is wrong that would be great. also my LFs had it in a tank with 5 others and they are all fine and swim around like they are supposed to, and he has them all in a 2 gallon tank. my current setup is 3/4 inch of large gravel, 3 plants, 2.5 gallon tank, whisper 3i filter for
1-3 gallon tanks (which is run by an air pump), a 5 gallon heater set at 78F, and a nightstand lamp for lighting. the tank has a window across the room from it so it gets about 7-8 hours of light a day (mostly for the plants), and the puffer is fed a pea sized amount of frozen blood worms every morning. if you have any other questions about the tank please feel free to ask. many thanks!
 
Get the tank cycled and he will probably start to behave normally. Also you should probably move them to a bigger tank as that's a lot of bioload, and more water means easier to control parameters your tank though do what you want.
 
Thats a lot of possibly uneaten food for such a small uncycled tank. Sounds like he def stressed. I fed freeze dried blood worms because it was easy to add one or two at a time and the puffer would pick at it better than a floppy much larger frozen piece. Also fed ghost shrimp.


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5g minimum for these guys. Clean the substrate, do a 90% WC & add Tetra's Safestart to the filter.
 
I have three pea puffers. They kind of float around with the tails curled. It's their thing I guess. Mine never ate the ghost shrimp I gave them. So now they have some company..... My water parameters are great so tcurled tail behavior is normal I think. Mine like snails and bloodworms. No dried food. They won't touch it.
 
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