Porcupine Puffer ate my glass Floating Thermometer!!!

[bulletsworld]

Originally Posted by my2rotties

Told you he ate anything he could fit into his mouth

CRAP! I remember you telling me that, now that you mention it! Gawd, you gotta love him but what a little bugger!

Originally Posted by my2rotties

I forgot to mention give him forzen peas, it always worked when he ate snails and stuff he should not eat... good old Griffie, I see he has settled right in. He loves frozen peas too.

Thats an excellent idea! I will try that.

[JDigital]

Originally Posted by The Codfather

I ended up leaving the thermometer in the sump.

Which in all honesty, is where stuff like that belongs.


Sorry to hear about this, hope he pulls through, but I would be worried about any glass shards be may have going through his digestive system.

[my2rotties]

You will also know if he has an upset belly if he starts inflating himself to realign his stomach folds. Does he have a cave in there for him to go under. He used to go into a cave in my tank so the powerheads didn't send him spinning off. He will be fine, just give him lots of peas for fibre... he ate so many snails and is still alive. He will inflate to throw up whatever is bothering him, and it does look pretty gross. When he threw up snail shells, he would often try to swallow them again.

Originally Posted by bulletsworld

CRAP! I remember you telling me that, now that you mention it! Gawd, you gotta love him but what a little bugger!




Thats an excellent idea! I will try that.

[my2rotties]

He will be fine... he never ate glass at my place, but with the amounts of snails he would crush and eat, I would think he can take this. He will just inflate himself a lot to get rid of it... if he is not inflating, it is not posing a problem to him I am thinking.

Leeanne, has he been inflating himself at all? He does love frozen peas and whenever he was off his food due to indigestion he would readily eat them. He poops them out very quickly too... kind of reminds me of a cow.

Don't worry about him, he's fine.

Originally Posted by JDigital

Which in all honesty, is where stuff like that belongs.


Sorry to hear about this, hope he pulls through, but I would be worried about any glass shards be may have going through his digestive system.

[bulletsworld]

Originally Posted by The Codfather

I ended up leaving the thermometer in the sump.

Originally Posted by JDigital

Which in all honesty, is where stuff like that belongs.

TJDigital... Thank you CAPTAIN OBVIOUS! I do keep one in the sump; however I like to also monitor my tank above as the temperture is always different with the MH lights on. Perhaps in the near furture I will invest in a controller unit to monitor temp.

[bulletsworld]

Originally Posted by my2rotties

He will be fine... he never ate glass at my place, but with the amounts of snails he would crush and eat, I would think he can take this. He will just inflate himself a lot to get rid of it... if he is not inflating, it is not posing a problem to him I am thinking.

Leeanne, has he been inflating himself at all? He does love frozen peas and whenever he was off his food due to indigestion he would readily eat them. He poops them out very quickly too... kind of reminds me of a cow.Don't worry about him, he's fine.

Thats a good point...he has not inflated since the incident. He will inflate after he has chocked on snails or mussel though. I never thought about that. I'm keeping my eye on him though. I would be crushed if anything happened to him. I tried peas with him once. He hasn't had them in a while. I will try that. Good idea! *superhugs*

[bulletsworld]

Originally Posted by fishoholic

Yikes! I had no idea that fish would break let alone eat a thermometer! I hope everything works out for you.

Thanks Laurie! *superhugs*

I will keep everyone posted with the outcome. I've used these floating thermometers for YEARS with no problems. If anything this experiance may help others.

[my2rotties]

yeah, but you never had Griffie... I would have never thought he would try to eat that either though... he's a floating pair of eye balls and stomach. I know he will be fine and I am still so glad you adopted him Just don't get wrasses or gobies... mid you it would give him a hobby. He loves to hunt, but he can't catch Damsel fish of course, but maybe it might give him something more productive to do with himself.

Originally Posted by bulletsworld

Thanks Laurie! *superhugs*

I will keep everyone posted with the outcome. I've used these floating thermometers for YEARS with no problems. If anything this experiance may help others.

[kien]

I just skimmed through this thread.. are we talking about a fish here, or a monster??? What I read was, there's something swimming in your tank that likes to puff up and throw up glass shards to maim snails so that he can ingest them whole ?!?!

[my2rotties]

He's a monster to anyone that can fit into his big mouth...

Originally Posted by kien

I just skimmed through this thread.. are we talking about a fish here, or a monster??? What I read was, there's something swimming in your tank that likes to puff up and throw up glass shards to maim snails so that he can ingest them whole ?!?!