The Puffer Forum

Thanks for the help everyone I hope I haven't sounded rude in any of my posts. I don't try to be I am just trying to get all the info I have out to help rule out things that I have already checked and/or treated for. I just measured Gimpy (my dragon goby) and last time I did about 2-3 months ago he ...

This is great thanks!! I have had a real hard time with real plants and so I have a lot of the silk kinds in my tank.

I am wondering though since these plants are sold in fresh water where I live do I need to slowly acclimate them to brackish? If so how should I do so?

I was thinking the same on the poop. He has been getting other foods as well. Brine shrimp, Algae pellets, snails and such. The island stays down because it has a platform that is bigger than it and you put the gravel(or sand in my case) over it. Because I have sand as my substrate I also have some ...

I will try the photobucket thing thanks!!! His poop is a reddish color I am thinking from the bloodworms maybe? It's not runny it almost looks like a little ball/ tadpole shape kinda. I will try to take pics. He now acts like he has been in my tank forever. He is cute and isn't shy at all. He doesn'...

Oh! I forgot to say that he did treat for parasites. A couple of weeks ago because that's one of the things I told him to do. He just decided he didn't want to do the other stuff I told him to.

I don't have a computer. Just my iPhone so I would need another way to do it. I didnt think he would need to be separated any longer just because everything I have read says to quarantine them for four weeks and the guy had them for 2 1/2 months not around other fish. I put him in with the others be...

I didn't buy them. They were given to me buy a guy who thought they would be cool to have. He bought 4 of them and had them in a 10 gal freshwater tank. He said he had had them for about 2 1/2 months. They started dying after about a month he said. He had them in freshwater and was feeding them the ...

The sick puffer died early this morning. :( its sad but I did what I could. The other tiny guy is now in my 55 and is doing much better. He isn't even an inch long yet and looks so tiny compared to my other fish. Even my plates are twice as big as him! I have been keeping a close eye on him though t...

They do in a way. I have a homemade set up on top of my aquarium that they spend most of their time in. It's lit has sand and all of that fun stuff. They climb out of my tank into it by a tunnel I have for them and some rocks. I also have an underwater island for them that's really cool. They are do...

No, they can't. They (the gudgeons) are about 3" long at the moment. The same size as my knight gobies. I don't think that one of the puffers will make it though. It's extremely emaciated and is just curled up in a little ball in the corner. I feel the only way to save him is to get him into br...

I just took in two F8 puffers from a friends friend because they bought them without researching first and decided that they didn't want them after letting two others die(yes they had four of them in a ten gal!). My question is, I have a 55gal brackish tank with one dragon goby(8") two purple s...

It is! I have him in the baby's room and they are always staring at him! I wish I could figure out how to post pics. I am on here through my iPhone and don't know how to post them with it. I would love to be able to post pics of my tanks!

I will check those out thanks!

That's sad. Its hard losing something that you care about. I am not sure why you are impressed about me goggling the DG but I will take that as a compliment to be sure! I learned at a young age to research before buying anything. I was only about 8 then I got my first aquarium. It was a disaster! My...

One jumped out! Ouch!! My dragon jumped out once. Luckily I found him in time!! Since then his tank has been well sealed. I am not even sure why he jumped out. His water was fine and he was the only one in the tank. He did have a habit of hugging the glass in the corner when I got him and was jumpy ...