The Puffer Forum

Hi, I saw your post in my thread about getting your puffer from wildwoods. The guy gave me some useful advice but not all of it was correct. Did you get one of the smaller £15 ones or the larger £25? even the large ones will get a bit bigger. I would put in that 4ft tank definitely, they'll be a hom...

As some of you who have followed my other thread may know, i recently bought a Abei puffer.

I bought it from wildwoods in enfield, the guy who sold me it told me it was a tank bred fish from thailand. i though all puffers were wild caught and ive never really heard of breeding them.

mine's been really active since i got him, swims up and down the tank all day then in the evening's and mornings he has a little explore, not shy at all!

My Abei is called Clint, cause my partner though it made him sound hard, cause he's an angry puffer!

So cute. Can you get some pics of that fluval in the tank Will do tonight, it's next to the old filter, however the old one has now packed in! I'm gonna give it a look over tonight. My partner is a bit concerned as she's been watching him during the day just swimming up and down the front of the gl...

Meet Clint! http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/9816/puffer007.jpg http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/3743/puffer001.jpg http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4941/puffer011.jpg http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/6373/puffer010.jpg He is setting in well, fed him a couple of river shrimps last night and a co...

Ok got positive readings today double checked them and I'm definatly getting nitrate and nitrite. Added the new filter a fluval u1 a few days ago with some stress zime and it's much better.

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/8404/phonepics025.jpg Added a few more plants. It appears i got some false readings yesterday, Today i got 4ppm ammonia and 0 nitrite and 0 nitrate. I think the tubes were contaminated yesterday with left over residue. No biggie, I'm not in a rush i want it to go ...

My first dose brought it to 4ppm, it's still that level, I'm introducing a second filter today, should I leave it as it is?

Also I'm not getting the puffer for maybe 2 weeks should I keep feeding the bacteria ammonia or possilble introduce some shrimp?

Yes, I haven't got the puffer yet! I'm fishless cycling the tank.

I'm thinking of a eheim powerball that's should help things out.

Tested the water last night, still 4ppm of ammonia, now got .5 nitrire and .5 nitrate

The tank is 30x60 about 54L yes, I know it's too small but I'm moving soon and will buy him a permant home. He is only 3cm at the moment. I'm getting him from wildwoods aquatics in Enfield. I've been to see him already. They have quite a large range. Fahkas, abei and potato puffers. No brackish or m...

That is probally what I'll do. Can you recommend any good ones? I usually use superfish but they quite a high flow rate and I'm worried about the current. Thanks for the offer of media, I'm already using some used stuff.

Thank you everyone for your fantastic advice so far

sorry i should note that i don't really want to take the current casing out as I've cut the background around it! i just want to improve the filtration.

Well, here's what I have so far. I'm planning on putting a few more plants in before I get my puffer, i just wanted to get it up an running so it could start cycling. I've kick started it with some safestart to hopefully speed up the process. The only concern i have now is I've been reading up on th...