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Ok I'll give it a go thank you

Hey Guys Does anyone have any tricks to keep their puffer happy? mine has a wave maker , caves , stones, plants and he's been happy up until now and he's started to go up and down the side of the tank every now and again, I tried a ping pong ball but he looked at it then realised it wasnt a shrimp a...

haha yeah the video was longer and you see him go back to cream with black freckles but I couldnt upload all of it

His freckles change all the time too , freckley if he sees someone he recognises then turns plain cream if he's a bit unsure who it is

Glad you like it

This is my abei puffer hunting and changing colour from cream to black to hunt and then once he's caught the shrimp he turns back to cream again. didnt realise my other half had this vid and thought id share ( please note this was taken in his old biorb he now has a much larger tank) http://s687.pho...

Oh I didnt realise you were meant to keep south american puffers in shoals!

Ive seen them the one's that look like bumble bee patterned and was going to get one but I didnt know they lived in shoals Ive only seen one on its own at the lFS

auriglobus are pretty but are they small? I like my abei because he's quite a chunky dude

I love the look of T.pustulatus the red spots and swirls are really pretty

Im rubbish with abbreviations whats a SAP puffer?

ooo both are really pretty ... starts browsing the pufferpedia*

Hey all

Think I might have been bitten by the puffer bug, I adore my abei puffer percy but if I was to set up another tank Id like to get the most colourful puff I can - I am not ready for marine , might consider brackish but I like to stick in my comfort zone with freshwater

any suggestions?

Perseus but Percy for short

I also pet name him Puff or Pastry haha

Yep he's completely stopped "coughing" out water

Thanks for everyone's help

Guess who is feeling better! :D :D :D :D I got home from work and he was greeting me at the front of the tank like normal and then...... he ate a shrimp!!!! woooooooooo!!!!! I did notice a little lump of what looks like shrimp remains floating at the top of the water - which I removed of course - bu...

Ok thanks guys will do

Is there any way I can tempt him to eat? there's a live shrimp in his tank but he's not touching it....Im worried he hasnt eaten in almost a week now

Amonia : 0 / clear Nirtrate : 5 (I believe its measured in mg)/ light pink Nitrite : 0.1 / clear / extremely light pink He seems a little perkier so I didn't do the "burping" I wanted to leave it as a last resort - he is swimming a little bit nowr, then lying down again band his tummy is a...

Hi There Thanks for replying originally I used the basic colour kits but then puffer punk told me to buy better kits so I bought the more detailed kits (with numbers) for all of those parameters and all came out low / normal . The tank is 4ft by 2.5 ft and I do use water de-chlorinator with every wa...

Thank you - this really is the last resort but I have tried everything else and exhausted every other option