Sick Porcupine Puffer Fish?

[brandi_irwin]

OK Well let me start out my I don't have a quarantine tank I know that is really STUPID of me!! My husband and I got a Porcupine Puffer about 3 days ago. He looked good so we got him. Well yesterday and today. His color is not good. There is a white patch on one side of him. I know it is not ink I have been that before but nothing like this. I can take a pic of it but not sure if I can post it on here. I haven't seem him eat either. So I dont know what to do. He is also staying in the corners of the tank. Somethings he is at the top and sometimes he is at the bottom. Dont think that is a good thing. When I had a fish water tank when my fish started to do that they died soon after that. If someone could please help me and if you have any ideas please help me.


Thanks

 

[SkiFletch]

May be too late by now, but that's tough to really advise, especially without pics. Also doesn't sound good, fish exhibiting that behavior are usually on the way out where meds can rarely save them. Wish I had better advice

 

[Colin_T]

maybe put it in a quarantine tank and offer it some live brineshrimp. If it is getting picked on by someone in the tank it will feel happier away from the others. And the live brineshrimp might stimulate its appetite.
The white patching on its side could be excess mucous from a skin parasite or poor water quality, or fungus from rough handling.
The other advantage of isolating the fish is if it dies it won't wipe out the rest of the tank.

 

[Dorkhedeos]

Did the fish shop net it up out of the water? It might be really stressed from having air in its body instead of water.

 

[tahneen]

check your nitrates
porcupne fish do not have scales but skin like loaches so this leaves them open to may diseases caused by poor water quality and other things
hope this helps!
and how big is the tank and what are the parimeters?

 

[Lynden]

Nitrates would have to be exceptionally high, probably over a few hundred parts per million, to affect the fish. Lack of scales doesn't make a fish more susceptible to nitrogenous wastes.