The Puffer Forum

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So I've got an 80G tank right now set up as brackish with aragnoite sand in it that is just housing two F8's and 2 sailfin mollies. I've been charmed by fahakas in the past and really want to get one. If I move those guys to other tanks and convert to freshwater, would it be acceptable to house say ...

I have an extra 5g bucket and filter heater, but is lighting a big concern? Or is this something I can just hide in my cabinet under my 80 so its not a big eye sore in my living room?

The two i've been slowly feeding were frozen well in advance and then i thaw them. they seem to go more nuts for crab legs than anything. At their current size, they do have trouble biting through it, i make a couple of cracks in the shell and i find they viciously attack it and end up carrying the ...

The title pretty much sums it up. I've got a small snail breeder going, and literally only 1 LFS in my area of Houston has any snails, and they only gave me a dozen out of reluctance because they have a fahaka/mbu/hairy puffers in house. However, I do live a 5 min drive from Nassau Bay and enjoy fis...

When i add my first batch of salt water tomorrow, i'll definitely re-arrange and add some more plants to block some more sight lines and to give more things to interest the F8's higher up in the tank. Thanks for the input so far.

I saw one person recommending that i get no more F8's. My 80g just seems very empty with 3 f8's, would 2 more really be out of the question? Has anyone had any experience keeping this many F8's in a tank before?

I haven't heard much about Mollies with F8's, anyone got any experience with the two of them together? I've noticed only one of my F8's shows a little bit of aggression, and ironically he's the smallest of the 3 and that's only during feeding time, I might actually exchange him for another one and t...

I have an 80g currently with 3 F-8's in it. I saw many people on this forum are having success with BBG's. I'm just curious as to what my limits on stocking would be. Ideally I would like to have 4-5 F8's and some amount of BBG in it, but what would be a good number?

I just introduced 3 figure 8's into my 80g yesterday. They are the only things in the tank, and i plan on transitioning to BW in the next couple of days. 2 of them appear rather healthy, but the 3rd f8 and the smallest of the 3 (1.5'') appears to have a heavily sunken in stomach. He has quite the ap...

So I have a 40g community in addition to my new 80G i just got that will home 2 GSPs. I got maybe 2-3 snails as hitchhikers on some plants i bought for my 40g and they've reproduced a decent bit. I don't have the GSPs yet, but i know with their voracious appetite will it be easy to maintain a snail ...

So I'm starting an 80g brackish tank for GSP's, i have my large trashcan to mix up my brackish water, but to move that water from the container to my tank what would be a good powerhead? I've never used or owned powerheads before and I know that some can have tubing hooked up to them to pump water. ...

I see that water changes are going to be a big deal for any puffers and I've read about some people using a powerhead and hosing from a big box home improvement store to pump water from you mixing container into your tank. Does anyone have any picture examples or recommendations as to which ones to ...

I was actually thinking about this myself. Where I live at in the suburbs of Houston is a 5 min drive from a bay that feeds into the gulf of Mexico and am quite experienced with the old chicken leg on a string crabbing method. I think this would save a TON of money long run in food costs for puffers.

This is my 2nd tank I have now, and on my 40 g, i have an aqueon 70 and a Penguin 200 biowheel. If I were to take the two filter media cartridges from my penguin 200 and put them in my new 80g, would my tank be good to go to introduce my two GSPs into the tank?