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Hi, My 8 y/o fig 8 puffer has lesion/ injury on mouth. He's pale and losing weight. I noticed hesitancy eating snails, he also eats shrimp pellets. Diet has not changed. No outside foods etc have been introduced. Other puffer is fat and healthy. I have no idea how to treat or what it is. I tried...

Question: what is your tap nitrite/nitrate levels?

DO you have ANY Fish or animals in your tank? If it's been empty awhile and it hasn't been getting a significant source of ammonia, your nitrifying bacteria can die off.

WOW! Thank you SO much! I have the puffers in an established FW tank so thought I just needed info on SG and speed of fresh->brackish transitioning. But you provided SO much I didn't KNOW I needed to know! This is great!! You are a true expert!!

Yay! Good job!

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You need well cycled, stable tank chemistry for an axolotl, so you need to fully cycle your tank. As I said before, I would switch to pure ammonia source and clean up the waste in the tank. Do you have any substrate in the tank? Axolotls do best with a soft sand or bare bottom tank.

Just leave the crushed coral in your filter overflow during your cycling. Once your tank is cycled, you can either take it out (for fish who prefer a lower pH or leave it in for fish that prefer a higher pH. If you choose to leave it in, you'd just need to add more periodically as it dissolves...

Let this one run a few months and add extra media in your filter and type can use that extra media to jump start a new tank. Good luck!

Moving a cup or two of the substrate over to the 10 gallon will transfer a good amount of bacteria over too and should help.

Sounds like you got yourself a REALLY fast tank cycle completed there! What is your ammonia level? If you are producing nitrates, your nitrite level is consistently at 0 ppm and you have a 0ppm ammonia level your are already cycled!

Honestly, What I would do is get a small bottle of Dr. Tims ammonia and use that. Thoroughly vacuum the waste out of the bottom of your tank, rinse any gunk off your filter media in some dechlorinated water and THEN test again. If your ammonia is below .5ppm wait one day and test again. Add...

Crusty Dusty has great advice. So I will just add my two cents that might help too. Crusty mentioned crushed coral, YES you want your pH to come up and the gentlest way to do that is to add crushed coral or aragonite chips to your filter overflow. Get a mesh media bag from your fish store and...

No, it won't hurt to switch now. The IMPORTANT thing NOT to change is your filter material. Four weeks is NOT an excessive time to take to cycle a tank without fish. Oh, and a pH of 8 is ideal for cycling. Try dosing your ammonia to just 1ppm from now on. You won't need a tank that size to need...

Howdy all! I have a couple of Figure 8 Puffers I'd like to transition over to brackish water but am not sure exactly how to do that. Is there a Brackish Forum or somebody who knows how I need to do this? Thanks! I found the brackish forum, Mods can you move this there? Please?

Exactly. They may be reacting to your water. I suggest testing it.

What are all your tank parameters? Tap parameters? What is your routine for tank maintanance? Most fish try to jump out of a tank for a reason...usually bad water. Might want to look into that.

Start with a 75-80% water change. Then just quit using the buffer you've been using. I really don't think you need it. A KH of 60 with regular weekly water changes of 50% or more should keep your pH at 7.6 to 7.8. That pH is fine for Cichlids. If it drops below 7.6 in a week, add the crushed...

What size is your tank? Depending on your tank size it may take a few months to cycle your tank with just 5 fish in there. Also, it looks like you need to do a high level pH test.