The Puffer Forum

Out of concern and due too the high protein diet you really should be doing more water changes along with wiping down the glass.
Consider prazipro to see if maybe tape worm is the cause . Good luck .

I have the 48inch Mr aqua led fixture and find it to be a great bang for the buck it has 8000k bulbs and many of them I have been running it problem free for around 1.5 years and the unit is competitive to finnex ray but beware of many low quality rip offs I grow medium light plants with no problems...

Only thing I could think of is buying some bottled R O water / distilled and cutting your tap water by 50 percent to bring the high levels to normal and add a little of seachem prime or safe to help remove anything else that can be a problem in the water you might need to remineralize the water depe...

Fresh water fish absorb desolved oxygen through the gill plate membrane so if there is medication or even amonia present in the water the fish will indeed at some point have the medicine in there body . If you have a headache you take a tylonal swallow and 30 mins later your headache is gone but yet...

I use to breed and raise discus and when I was first learning I went out and bought a bunch of discus from a local store and at the time didn't know how to tell from improper shape to being stunted so at the time I went simply for the colors and out of the group I had a blue diamond discus that wasn...

Didn't tell the guy to stop using it simply giving my opinion and a warning . Very often when helping people with fish or water issues is 2 things in common 1 is a poorly maintained cannister filter and 2 way too much gravel in the tank. plus the way most cannister filters are designed they will adv...

I think this is a prime example why I don't use cannister filters because they are ticking time bombs .Many people fall behind on maintenence in them because they can over filter very well but when you get behind on cleaning the filters are just feeding amonia to your fish They are a pain to clean a...

Well it seems all is back to normal with the fahaka
eating well again
hmm ..... still no idea why it ever stopped ?

IM running at the moment 120g fahaka puffer 90 g with multiple rummy nose tetra , cardinal tetra , penguin tetra ,porkchop harliquin rasbora ,royal mountain minnows, pygmy corys , green river shrimp and amano shrimp , harry nirate snails and otto cats also a pair of peacock gudgeons and one lonely e...

Sorry nitrate is 20 ppm
Tds is 140 ppm
But I'm a bit concern with my phosphate level in my tap water which is 3.5 ppm are puffers sensitive to phosphates in higher levels ?

Ph is 7.8
nitrite 0
nitrate 0
amonia 0
Nothing of concern I can see with water test or anything physicAL on the puffer .

Great thing is I came back to 2 Crawfish that where eaten .The puffer seems to be eating but I'm curios on to why he stopped

Ive kept 2 fahaka puffers in the last 5 years. My first once i bought as a little guy at around the 2 inch mark with absolutely no problems But I ended up having to get rid of it due to being in a apartment and not being able to upgrade my tank size , had it in my 90g until it reached about the 11 i...

have a 4 inch fahaka , it lives with 10 feeder guppies about a 5 inch pleco and a chinese algae eater , been all together for about 10 weeks now , but there were 3 chinese algae eaters he killed 2 doesnt seem to care about the 3 rd , only time will tell