The Puffer Forum

My puffers are looking a lot stronger in colour and seem very happy swimming about all over the tank and spend very little time against the glass. My tank is already quite heavily planted but have added some plants to try and form a carpet and have put some fast growing moss in there too, to soak up...

A couple of points: I use the anti parasite medication by soaking food in it and then adding the mixture to the water. This is to try and address IP and external ones that I might not see. I take the point that redosing too often could selectively produce resistant strains. As the colours hasn't bee...

One in particular is in need of a trim and i have some cuticle nippers on order and have some Kusuri Masuizai as a sedative ( I understand that clove oil works by depriving the fish of oxygen and can cause long term damage). In terms of stocking, the system manages very well with the waste (I have t...

Water parameters - pH=7.5 , Ammonia=0, Nitrite=0, Nitrates=30-40 and salinity=freshwater Tank size= 125ltrs Inhabitants: 4 Colomesus asellus, 2 Irrubescos, 9 Neon Rainbows, 9 Harlequin Rasboras, 4 Otos, 1 flash pleco (L204), 1 clown pleco, 1 siamese algae eater, 5 danios I treat the tank once a mont...

Hi, I am back from Borneo and unfortunately couldn't find any irrubesco. But I have got a couple of my own now. Here are a few photos of the rivers that I found in Borneo and Arthur and Martha. Ther river was fast flowing and very clear. There were a lot of what i think were some sort of Gara Rufa, ...

Hi all, I am heading to Borneo next month on holiday and I am going to check out the local water systems. I plan on getting a red tailed red eye puffer (Carinotetraodon irrubesco) when i get back. Does anybody know where in Borneo these puffers are found? I plan on setting up a biotope and will take...