The Puffer Forum

I got one of the ammonia alert that sticks on to the glass when I set up the tank. It does seem to go from safe to alert every few days but I dump more bacteria in and it goes down. I'm just worried about him in terms of internal parasites. He won't eat the medicated food. I've fasted him for 2 days...

Ammonia is 0, nitrittes are 0 and nitrates are barely showing up at .0001 ppms. The salt is at 1.010 and the PH is at 7.6. Is that PH too low? I've been feeding smaller meals 2 times a day instead of just one larger meal at night too. Not sure if that's helping or hurting the issue. They are also no...

Purplecandle: I feed them bloodworms and krill soaked in garlic. Other than that I feed them live food such as snails and ghost shrimp. Fade2black-1973: The tank has only been set up for about a month. I've had the puffers about 3 weeks and the tank was instantly cycled with 2 bottles of seachem sta...

yeah. I soaked the Ip medication with the garlic overnight. A few got bitten then spit out.

Hi, I'm new to keeping puffers as well as keeping a saltwater tank. I have 2 Gsp's in 55 gallons. Ammonia, nitrites are all testing at 0, nitrates are also close to 0 at I believe .0002 ppm's, and the PH is sitting at 8.1. These guys are about an inch long. I have them in a saltwater gravity of 1.01...