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My green spotted puffer fish looks sick2007-11-24 23:39:18

I have a green spotted puffer fish that is in with two juvenile oscars and a plecostomas. The oscars are not aggressive toward him and I just got done treating them for ich. Everday I have done 50% water changes and added the medicine, everyone looks fine now, except the puffer, and it looks as if it's skin is peeling or flaking off, it looks like this all over its body..Any ideas on what to do or what is wrong?

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Puffers are scaless, the medication has burned his skin. Next time remove the puffer when treating the tank or remove the fish that needs treatment. The only thing you can do for the time being, is more water changes (consider using bottled spring water so you don't have to add any more irritating chemicals like a chlorine remover), and turn your heater up a few degrees.

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I once had a red devil that his skin was peeling off and they said it was from the ph being too high and it was actually burning his skin off, I know that sounds gross..the fish died the next day hopefully some one on here can tell u what you can do before its to late..good luck

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it sounds like he still has ich. You may want to treat the tank again or go to the pet store and see if they have special stuff for faking. I know they do for turtles and some fish but I am not sure

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In addition to the meds being a possible issue, keeping a green spotted puffers larger than 2-inches in fresh water long term weakens their resilience. (they don't do well and don't live as long as they should if kept in fresh water). The freshwater probably isn't the cause of it's current ailment, but GSP's tend to be tougher when kept in brackish water.

Green spotted puffers are actually brackish water fish and when bigger than 2 inches do best in water in brackish conditions rather than freshwater conditions (brackish requirements being 2 to 3 cups of marine salt per 5gals of aquarium volume .they can actually be acclimated to full saltwater conditions as well). A specific gravity of 1.010 is probably the bare minimum to keep these guys in.

Unfortunately the other fish in your tank aren't suited for that type of salinity.