The Puffer Forum

I pulled the dead shrimp out as soon as I found them- they were fresh enough that I tossed the bodies into my 120g and let my bigger fish eat them. I am keeping an eye on their weight. I might treat them for parasites even if I don't see signs- I wanted to try to get them eating first. With the adul...

I do think they ate the baby pond snails- but they weren't much of a meal as their stomachs didn't get really full. I tried cutting up the bloodworms and using a forceps as suggested- they thought it was interesting to follow the forceps around, but didn't recognize the bloodworms as food. I checked...

I am thinking that I might have trouble finding live blackworms- but I'll ask at the LFS where I got the puffers- there isn't another store that carries live food within an hour from my home. I have frozen bloodworms, but the puffers ignored them when I tried them a couple of days ago- maybe the puf...

Here are a couple of pictures the first is the 10G setup:


The second is one of the puffers exploring his new home:

The fish store claims that they have been feeding them flake and/or pellets. I'n guessing that the puffers there are not eating and no one at the fish store is noticing. I think mine had only been there a week when I purchased them. I bought some dried krill to try tonight. It's tempting to put a vo...

I decided to transfer them to a 10 gallon tank for their permanent home. I moved them last night. They look much more content and active- I guess they didn't like the smaller QT tank- too boring. I added some baby pond snails for toys/food. They are shaing their home with two adult assassin snails- ...

I picked up two baby dps on Saturday. I put them in a 5g cycled tank for qt. They seem a bit unhappy. They do a lot of lounging around- they do swim around a bit after I put the lights on and then hang around the tank until they notice me. Otherwise, they aren't that active. I've been checking the w...