xhaust50
01/11/2007, 12:02 AM
I'm concerned that my Green Spotted Puffer hasn't grown very quickly, despite what I would consider a superb diet (mix of shrimp, oysters, clams, squid, crab, selcon, nori, and garlic, fed once a day, 6x a week). He was never in a tank smaller than 29G, and has been in the 55G for a while. He seems very healthy, and is always hungry, but I'm wondering if he may be carying internal parasites that are prohibiting him from growing. Nitrates are always <10, usually 0.
Would it be okay to feed him freeze dried bloodworms that are soaked in Jungle Labs Parasite Clear in the display tank with other fish? He would be the only fish that would eat that. Again I don't see any signs of IP's, but the slow growth has lead me to be suspicious, and since many puffers have notoriously lived with IP's for quite some time I figure it couldn't hurt.
I have had my GSP since last August, converted to full salt around march, and he is now a plump 3". I may have converted him to salt too soon, but water quality was tough to maintain in brackish without the use of plants, and I raised the SG much slower than .002 a week.
Would it be okay to feed him freeze dried bloodworms that are soaked in Jungle Labs Parasite Clear in the display tank with other fish? He would be the only fish that would eat that. Again I don't see any signs of IP's, but the slow growth has lead me to be suspicious, and since many puffers have notoriously lived with IP's for quite some time I figure it couldn't hurt.
I have had my GSP since last August, converted to full salt around march, and he is now a plump 3". I may have converted him to salt too soon, but water quality was tough to maintain in brackish without the use of plants, and I raised the SG much slower than .002 a week.