boxfishlover
Aquarium Advice Regular
Hey everybody, so some bad news our third black boxfish (female) died on Thursday, I am not sure why she seemed fine on Wednesday I did notice the jumbo green hermit crab I had for clean up disapeared on Thursday morning so I am assuming either she or Spike (striped burrfish) got him. Well anyway maybe there was a battle and dottie was injured anyway when I got home she had passed So we went today and got a new fish (Porcupine puffer) very good looking fish very healthy. Well I fed everybody in the tank before getting ready to add him. Everyone ate great including the eel. Once I floated the puffer and acclamated him in the tank he went. Well he swam around and spike was checking him out and the porcupine puffed up once and then mellowed right out. Everyone swam around for a few hours and all seemed good no one fighting or anything. Well I just went over to the tank and my burrfish has literally almost turned gray and is hanging out in the corner of the tank ( defense mode I guess) the thing is he is all of 7 inches and the procupine is about 2 inches I guess size doesnt always matter Hopefully everyone will be back to normal in the morning and all will be well. The porcupine was only $14.00 they had like 5 of them and that is the regular price, seemed pretty cheap to me. I will post some pics as soon as he poses for me. I just went and looked again and spike is now swimming around and has a little color back. My cowfish has had no interest at all in the porcupine he hasnt swam anywhere near him.