The Puffer Forum

sadly didn't make it. Don't know if i wanna try another one. I knew too little and feel bad.

did the water change and all that. can't really get filter media from other tank. its inside a huge fluxal canister

and i medicated it cause the LFS said to do that. I took the fish in and had them look at it.

put freshwater or brackish in the tank???

i put him back in the 8 gallon and added bifurin. now he isn't moving and barely breathing. i think i lost him

what is IPs

the tank was cycled with freshwater for 2 weeks before i put him in. then i slowly made it into brackish water for a week. i am acclimating him back to freshwater and putting him in the 110 gallon for now until the 8 gallon is corrected. its weird tho because the bumblebee goby and the craps are per...

right now the only option is to keep him in the 8 gallon brackish or put him in a 110 gallon freshwater with cichlids and i don't thing that will be a smart idea. I don't have another tank and don't have money to just go set up another tank. he actually loves the crabs. its his favorite food.

and yes i know the ammonia is high and i am dealing with that right now

PH 8.2 Ammonia 8 ppm Nitrite 5 ppm Nitrate 10 ppm 8 gallon tank with 3 inch puffer, bumblebee goby and 3 red claw crabs for food I feed him once a day with live blood worms. Water changes every 2 weeks. I add aquarium salt weekly. The most recent change was turning the tank to brackish water. aquari...