The Puffer Forum

Pufferpunk, its a 120l tank, which places it in the region of 30 US gallon. Very roughly it is 2ft long, 2ft high and 1.5ft deep. It's heavily planted (100% of the substrate is covered) with a mix of jungle val, cambomba, pondweed and a bunch of plants that look like swords but I have no idea what t...

I'm sure with any other fish I would find it easy to replace a couple of males with some females. These guys were absolute murder to get hold of up here in Scotland - I've only found one place that sells them within a 1.5 hours drive of where I live. And they're only available as juvies, so if I rep...

That's what I thought for the ratio. Unfortunately, this is what I ended up with.

So, after the loss of one of our DPs a couple of months back the remaining five are doing well. Somewhere along the line they suddenly grew without me noticing and look all grown up and mature now. Life's been kind of busy recently and, other than thowing food in the tank for them and water changes,...

Of the five remaining DPs two of them seem generally to be a little less rotund than the others. Not in an unhealthy, skinny-looking way, but just a little slimmer. I paid more attention at the feeding time today and they all attempted to stuff themselves on the food available to them. I did notice ...

Out of interest....how often do you guys feed your DPs? We normally give ours some kind of frozen food once every two days - usually a large bloodworm each or the equivalent in other frozen food. Is this often enough or should we really be feeding every day?

Yes, the malachite green meds have been put sfely away in the cupboard and will not be used. The remaining five puffers all ate well last night - I watched them to make sure they all ate rather than just played with the food (always entertaining when you have a DP attached to each end of bloodworm!)...

Hi RTR, It helps in term of information, but I still have the same treatment problem. I've just discovered that this stuff I have contains malachite green, so I'm not sure if I should even use it for the puffers. Maybe I should not worry about it for now and just keep a very close eye on them. Of co...

I can't find anything to medicate the food with in the UK. If you know of anything I would love to know!
The stuff I'm using is the only stuff I can find for treatment of internal parasites.

Well, I have to report that we lost him last night. To be honest, I've never had any luck pulling a fish back once they stop eating, but he was relatively active yesterday so I didn't think he was quite circling the drain just yet. I've left my husband at home giving the puffer tank a thorough clean...

I've moved him over to a 10g quarantine tank. He's mustered up the energy to go on a small exploratory jaunt around the tank.
One of our LFS stocked Sterazin so I'm going to start treatment with that.

Once he's settled a bit I'll try him with some garlic-soaked bloodworm.

OK, it appears anti-parasite meds are hard to come by here in the UK.
I have found one by Waterlife called Sterazin - anyone familiar with this?

Bah, the LFS doesn't have any live food in this week, and I can't find anywhere close to where my husband is working today. I shall keep looking. TBH, the way he was playing with his live bloodworm last week I don't think he would eat it anyway. We went away for the weekend and he seems to have real...

It was my understanding that DPs don't have the problem with over-growing beaks like other puffers. I had wondered about parasites though. Its difficult to describe but whereas the others have quite round bodies tapering off down their tails, this guy instantly turns to practically nothing once you ...

OK, we've popped him in the breeding box, and added a couple of pieces of frozen cockle. I'm quite worried about him now...I think this is more than just being a slow eater. He's spending most of his time lying on the bottom of the box and has shown no interest in the food at all. He really is very ...