The Puffer Forum

Looks good, good luck with the anubius.

Distilled water according to the directions that came with it. Since there was such a large discrepancy I took a sample of water to a nearby petstore for a second opinion. They confirmed that it was at 1 or so close you couldn't tell. Either the hydrometer was way off or I wasn't using it right. -Ch...

Hadla, I wish I could give you a definite answer but I don't really know. I got all of those plants back in Jan '12 and put them in freshwater, since the puffer was in fresh when I got him. Then slowly increased salinity to about 1.004 over the course of a few months. At least I thought I was increa...

Thanks everyone. I'm pretty pleased with it so far. It'll be interesting to see how it changes over time.

-Chris

Several months ago I posted about trying to setup a 40 gallon brackish tank ( http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=30441 ), well I realized that I never posted the end product. So here it is. Tank: 40 gallon acrylic TruVu Flora: Java Moss, Java Fern, Anubius Nana Fauna: 4 Plat...

I thought I would share my construction of the tank. I'm using a 40 gallon acrylic tank. The substrate is going to be white sand with a rock scape made out of flagstone/slate I find at the local home improvement store and some extra rock. Along with some brackish friendly plants like java fern, java...

I live near Dennys and work even closer. I usually end up going at least once a week just to walk around. Never been to the Sierra store in Issaquah, the one in Renton is a nice store as well. I think I'll try a 2 F8s, some BBGs and maybe a 1 or 2 chromides (if I can find them) for a little extra co...

Hi Terrance, I was probably going to get the F8 from the Fish Store. The one I have now came from there. If you have a couple other suggestions I'd like to know. Maybe not to buy, I don't know about anyone else but I just enjoy walking around fish/pet stores especially new ones.

Thanks,
Chris

3 F8s? I didn't even think of that as an option, I didn't think they would get along. But that would be a cool tank, 3 of those guys buzzing around like little blimps.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

-Chris

I currently have a juvenile f8 in a brackish 20 gallon tank. Its just him and he seems to be doing well. I also have an empty 40 gallon tank just waiting to be filled. I was thinking that a larger brackish tank would be great (give him a little extra room to roam) but am unclear if this would actual...

I've had it for about 5 or 6 months now, wow time really does go by fast. I feed it defrosted shrimp and snails. I'm pretty sure it is inactive during the day because it is a nocturnal fish. Thats why I wanted to try and reproduce low light during the day so it is active, then no light at night.

I have a target puffer that does absolutely nothing during the day. I notice during the night though it is a little more active and swims around. I was wondering if during the day instead of a full flourescent light use some blue lights or some "moonlight" LED's to light the tank. the hope...