The Puffer Forum

"I don't think you were being cruel. Cruelty entails knowingly doing something harmful to another living thing. LFSs usually have no info to go on when they get the fish. Any research they do is limited to the vast amount of misinformation already out there. I don't hold it against you and I do...

I also want to note that I originally planned on having a large tank in my house like maybe a 55gal salt water, so if I can scrape together the money, I'll probably put the GSP's in there and the F8's in the 29 gal. If they live long enough...

IMNSHO cruel would have been leaving them at the pet store to die. They wouldn't have made it a week the way they treat them, and they were telling the customers they were freshwater fish too, so even if they were bought, you can imagine the outcome. In my experience animals don't seem to grow and t...

Oh and do these stress marks appear as small spots on the belly ever? Or as white spots on the eyes?

Thanks for the suggestions. My tap water here is pretty bad, it turns the toilet, and bathtub pink after a couple weeks. I don't know what causes it, but it's best not to mess with that stuff. I am not well versed in the ways of the puffers as most of you have pointed out, but I'm curious about the ...

Before adding any marine mix you'll have to take the pleco out. He won't appreciate the salt one bit. Turning him into a store for credit may be the best idea. is there any kind of algae eating fish for brackish water? Do you not use tap water?[/quote] God no, bottled water, the kind that's like oz...

I'll try that, I'll have to get some water, and marine mix of course now that I know these are not freshwater dwarf puffers.

just to clarify also, the discoloration didn't start as a full body thing, they start as spots. Two of the other fish have spots right now.

Let me re-phase the question. Is there any kind of parasite, fungus, or other type of Contagious condition that could be causing the puffers to be so discolored? Again Sick Puffer: http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/a17e1a456b.jpg Healthy Puffer: http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/689fc410b9.jpg tha...

So it's rediculously overstocked, but that doesn't explain why the fish (all 5 of them) were fine until the covered in black stuff fish was introduced to the tank. The black stuff spread from said fish to the others. I think the black stuff and the overcrowding are two different problems here.

I don't have a tester kit (yeah I know, shame on me, I've been meaning to get one, but yeah I didn't) We feed once a day, dried shrimp, sometimes ghost shrip, dried tubiflex worms Water change, we don't do this properly either I'm sure, maybe a month or two ago we took out maybe half the water and r...

Sorry I didn't crop or resize, the fish is super sick, and I just wanted to get it up there asap.

My wife recently picked up a puffer from a store that we didn't normally use. (she felt the urge to rescue this particular one) It had a little chewed up tail, and slight black discoloration. The black discoloration spread, but would at times almost completely disappear, and when we were on vacation...