The Puffer Forum

My Valentini puffer seems to be bloated and it's not from eating too much. Is there anything I can do to help her? No bullying fish and water perameters are normal. Please help

I've read that no-ich marine works great. It takes a week or so of treatment though. It is not harmful to inverts and corals because it is not a copper based treatment (it is all natural). My Blue Hippo Tang has come down with ich and I've been treating the tank for 3 days and I already see an impro...

My Valentini who was once very active is now hanging out in the upper right corner not moving much. She still eats (currently full). Is it because I might be overfeeding her? My tank parameters are: Salinity: 1.020 Ph: 8.1 Amonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: 0 Temp: 79F Anybody have any suggestions? Shoul...

I feed my puffer San Francisco Bay Brand Marine Cuisine. He will also eat almost anything else. He'll eat the flake food I feed the other fish and frozen blood worms (thawed out).

Valentini puffers are so cool!! (and they don't grow too big for the tank like many other marine puffers)

If you plan on getting snails or hermit crabs with a puffer it helps if you also buy a bunch of empty shells. I have read that this helps the longevity of the live hermits and snails, and maybe the puffer may give up on trying to eat them because there are so many decoy shells.

Thanks, good point regarding pollution and toxins.

Can you use beach sand for substrate in a tank with F8's and bumblebee gobys or will it raise the salinity to high??

What do you guys use to clean your tanks in a light brackish water set-up? The sg is 1.005. I have a figure 8 puffer and a couple of bumble bee gobies. I put 3 ghost shrimp in today and the fig 8 ate one already. :lol: Does anyone have any ideas?? What I mean by clean-up crew is how people keep plec...

Thanks that's a huge help. I am new to the whole forum scene so I don't know much about navigating it. Thanks.

Sorry lisalisa I couldn't find where I posted my question. Thanks for the info.

Thanks that is a great help. I need to get the salinity to 1.005. That's going to take while huh?

I'm trying to change a 20 gallon freshwater tank to brackish for a figure 8. The LFS has the figure 8 in freshwater so I know I need to acclimate them slowly to brackish .002 a week. Would that be done when doing a water change add 10 gallons with one tablespoon of marine salt for each gallon (of th...

I have a 20 gallon tank for a fig 8. The fig 8 was in FW at the LFS, so I'm going to have to raise the sg by .002 per week. How do I do this?

When I do a water change (10 gallons) do I put like 1 tablespoon of marine salt per gallon (10 gallons) or is that too much salt?