The Puffer Forum

Nope :roll: I have know idea why this happened just kind of bummed about it because I liked the little guys. I have been keeping freshwater fish about 20 years although the first 10 admittedly my parents did a lot of the work lol. This is my first time with brackish but I know the basics. Has any on...

Due to over tiredness this morning and being new at this I put the wrong values. I raised the tank to 1.001 on Saturday and 1.002 yesterday so it is not marine lol :redface: They where quite active when I first brought them home but once I raised it up to 1.001 one of them became kind of lethargic a...

I was slowing increasing my aquarium to brackish to allow the nitrifying bacteria to change and to acclimate my new fish slowly. The first day I brought the gravity to 1.01 then waited 2 more days and increased it to 1.02. Both times I added the salt water over 2 hours to slowly bring it up but last...

well I decided to try 2 orange cromide's. I'll see how it goes. So far he has no interest in them and he is pretty big already about 2.3-3 inches so I'm not sure how old he is or how much bigger he will get. I'll just have to keep a close eye on them and make sure there is no major problems.

Thanks he was in a tank full of Red Scats at the LFS and didn't seem to bother them at all. I'm slowly acclimating the tank to brackish now as the LFS had them in "African cichlid" water lol.

Hello all I just purchased a new figure 8 tonight for a 30 gallon and I am wondering if there are any other brackish fish that could be housed with them. I was considering maybe a couple of goby's or a grouper. Any thoughts?
What if any thing do you keep with them?