The Puffer Forum

In the past 2 weeks, I have had 3 puffers die, 1 was a 2 1/2 year old GSP, we found him lodged in the filter tube :( The other 2 were Figure 8 Puffers which we got this past Saturday. They were doing great, I put a frozen blood worm cube in last night which was bright red in color, but they were bot...

your tank is uncycled, and to small. Your F8s probably died due to stress and bad water, not the bloodworms. THough you should thaw out the bloodworms before feeding them. I did add the cycle substance to the tank a few days prior to putting the new fish in, when you say it's uncycled what do you m...

I will buy a test kit today and post the results, what would normal readings be for brackish water?

I cleaned out the tank completely when my GSP died, bought a new filter & rocks, added the necessary chemicals and salt to make it brackish (Sorry, don't know the technical names) even let the filter run for a few days before I put the new F8 puffers in. Its odd though because I bought a package...

They were red and turned black overnight, I checked on them in the morning and they were swimming around, then an hour later they were floating in the tree I have a 20g tank, the temp is always between 72 - 76.

nope. I have had them for a few months, could they have been too old?

I recently just lost my 2 1/2 year old green spotted puffer fish named Ovy to what I thought was a filter malfunction, he got sucked up and got stuck :( 4 days ago me and my bf bought 2 figure 8 puffers, last night I was feeding them like usual and dropped in blood worm frozen cube, they were both k...