The Puffer Forum

My cochinchinensis is a very sociable little puffer...swimming to the front of the tank from his cave to greet us whenever we go near! He's very personable, but it took him a month or two to settle into his tank, so give him some time :) Keep trying, I hope he starts to eat soon. Have you tried crus...

There are actually quite a few plants that can do well in brackish water, java fern in particular is known for being hardy. I just found this link here http://www.wetwebmedia.com/BrackishSubWebIndex/bracplants.htm about all the plants that can be kept in brackish water, it looks like quite a variety...

Rocker wrote:according to 'the puffer locator' Wharf has some but I would ring first as I never saw any but to be fair I wasn't looking for them.

there were only 3 left when Craig and I went about a week and a half ago so I wouldn't be surprised if they had sold them by now!

I think that SAPs going without snails for one week won't be a problem, especially as it sounds like they've had a very good diet of snails up until now and come Tuesday they will again

This morning he was just lying on his side at the bottom of the tank not breathing very much so we had to euthanise him RIP little fishy!

He was chased about quite a bit (only for a couple of days), never got physically harmed though. Until today he was just hanging about nearer the surface, it's only been since I got in (like an hour ago) that he's been swimming strangely :-( We do have a spare tank and a plenty of spare filter media...

OK, I've just noticed that our SAP is swimming and behaving very strangely. For the last few days he has been hanging around at the surface looking a bit listless, I put this down to him being bullied by a tankmate (who we removed yesterday). However, he is still hanging around at the surface, and j...

A mini fridge with a hole on each side the same size as my filter hosepipe with a couple of metres coiled inside, placed between the filter and inflow for my tank is doing a fantastic job here in Spain, with outside temps topping 45 degrees centigrade! The fridge I picked up from a camping store fo...

The 20 gallon tank is big enough in terms of gallonage, but I'm not an expert on how much territory female irrubescos need! If you provide plenty of cover and hiding places with plants and rocks you might get away with keeping them together in that tank (but just don't expect to see them all the tim...

Yep, they look just like my female irrubesco :) When I had two female irrubescos one bullied the other so much I thought she was a gonner, she wouldn't eat and spent all her time squeezed between the back of the tank and the filter, and let herself get sucked in to the filter a couple of times too. ...

Thanks for the kind words guys, it's appreciated! I did my very best and did everything I could for her. :-) A buddy who is quite knowledgeable about fish diseases thinks that it was the parasite chilodonella which resulted in a secondary bacterial infection that set in that killed the other fish. W...

Never mind, she died :-( I got shown this http://www.fish-disease.net/diseases/chilodonella.php just now, and that actually sounds like the exact description of the illness (where as the Columnaris had a lot of symptoms that fitted, but was not exact). Could anyone advise me on suitable puffer meds?...

Thanks to my housemate's generous donation of £3.50 I was able to get out to Timmerman's this afternoon and I now have some pimafix! I will carry on treating with that and melafix, plus the daily water changes. Just for the record, they had just got in lots of new puffers at Timmermans, SAPs, a con...

I currently have a female irrubesco puffer suffering from what's believed to be columnaris. She's spending a lot of time gasping at the surface of the tank, and a few days ago the male she shares her tank with died from the same thing (see thread:heater burn, fella being my boyfriend). I searched th...