The Puffer Forum

in the aqua clear the biomax is the bio media, right? also just out of curiosity, what is the best tap water dechlorination? I've been using API's (I like just using all my products from one company) Stress Coat (dechlorination and slime coat), Stress Zyme (for biological filtration enhancing?), and...

I said I never changed it out--it's rinsed often. I got that. OK, I will try to figure out what might be getting over cleaned, and see if I can get the cloudiness to go away. Honestly, I feel stupid for not knowing I was doing something wrong, but I have been rinsing all three components of the Aqu...

I've never replaced the foam either. I think 1 is >20 years old. Wow! I thought I might have been neglecting the tank! Well, right now I'm going to keep on with the water changes and try to get this cloudiness sorted. I'll still have to think about if I should try a puffer again. Since my 55G FW ta...

Looking back I would say over the last four weeks, he has not been perking up after water changes, more of a lying around a lot, and hiding in his little cave. And I'm not even sure he has been too perky about food in the last 2 weeks. Life gets away, and so busy, I recently had to start a new job a...

Main Tank. I'm very low budget, and have a lack of funds for a QT Tank in addition to my 55G FW and this 29G BW. I've just got him in the net for safety. But I don't think it's going good. he's lying on the bottom lifeless. Not breathing. If I disturb the net, he flips his fins a bit, then falls bac...

Yes I have been testing this entire week. The ammonia stayed at .25 (slight greenish in the API Liquid test kit) for about 2-3 days, and is now a yellow (zero ppm) I Just got home, and checked: Ammonia: 0ppm Nitrites: 0 Nitrates: 15ppm pH: 7.8 Puffer did make it, but looks sicker than ever. He's not...

OK, this morning, I turned on the light, and he is floating on the surface, very lifeless!! I Moved around a little, and I think it was more accident, but ate about 3 brine shrimp, I was watching him, and he reached out of the water, took a breath and then floated there just like he was dead. I blew...

Ahh, Forgot to mention that... It's hard for me to get this timeline strait because it feels like so many critical things happened in a short time. I think Puffer's first day of not eating was the morning of the water change, the water change was performed that evening, and I did run out of salt and...

To start: Ammonia : 0 Nitrites : 0 Nitrates : 10 pH : 7.8 SG : 0.012 Temp: 78F Tank Size: 29 Gal Auqa Clear 50 HOB Filtration Feeding: Frozen Brine Shrimp / Blood Worms / Marine Mixture of Muscles,shrimp, and others... Cleaning: About 30% Weekly Basically the last month the tank has gotten a green c...

10-4....

From Office Space:
"What do you think of someone who just does the minimum?"... LOL

hmm, would 25 gallons work?

or would 29?

or does it have to be 30 gallons?

Thank You!

sacramento, ca

actually this morning I may have found a reason for his behavior. i was pulling some water out to thaw his food, and noticed the water was extremely warm. thinking it was from just being directly under the light, i felt the side of the tank.... burning up, looked at the thermom, and it was off the 8...

I'm so done with puffer's... They are too far out of my budget. The only reason I have the 10 gallon, it was free, and over the past like 4 years, i've added some stuff to it, like a new light, and then a new pump, but arg, 10 gallon is soo worthless. i kept 2 fig 8's in it, both for a year or so. I...

Well, I used to have a Fig. 8 in this tank, but he passed, and now i have a GSP, (obviously i cleaned the tank and what not...) he's been in there for 2-3 months now, he's on a diet of muscles, blood worms, and brine shrimp. i tried feeding him small snails before, but it didn't work too well, I don...