The Puffer Forum

when i got mine at the LFS it was healthy looking fat and white belly and pretty small. kept in 10gal for maybe 1 week at max then had to seperate because it was very aggressive and killed the rest of my fish sooner then i'd imagined. been in a 53gal since for idk 2-3 years at the most. kept it in b...

just bought some fresh shrimp shell on; feeding is going great belly is staying fat atm. will update perameters later today

parameters i have not tested in a while sadly i have neglected the tank for a few months will be checking on that with some cheap strips tomorrow after moving the tank to my new room. food- before neglecting the tank; shrimp with shell on raw and frozen, clams and mussles half shell smashed up with ...

I have had my GSP for at least 1 year at most 2. however it is still small. it's been in a big tank by itself since i got it 53gals to be exact. it has grown slightly bigger maybe about half an inch maybe less since then. i typically feed it once a day, temp is definetly fine. i feed what it would t...

my puffer has a sunken belly. it's been like this for a while now. when i got it it had a round belly. recently since i started feeding less hard foods due to lack of supply it has had this issue. i started feeding a mix of hard and soft food( freeze dried blood worms) recently and feeding more ofte...

ahh thought it was sick or something it was very unusual. It's a GSP and i rarely go up to 3 days without feeding usually every other day to 2 days

I just fed my puffer some raw shrimp defrosted it in some tank water before feeding shell on and left it for maybe 5-6 minutes to eat. now it has a weird bump on the right side in the back by it's butt area. Basically it is bloated which will go down in a few hours im sure but it's like it's double ...

It's not because im lazy to mix the water I was just wondering as if it was safe i would try to turn my tank into FW but seeing as how people are saying it is not safe then i won't be selfish and put my wants over the fish needs. It's mainly a cost issue more like it. everything in my state is HIGHL...

Nice i got the same size pots well mine are used though from gardening so it's a bit dirty but i washed them and not pesticides. How did you get the bottoms out? i assume a screw driver and just hammer it on the ground.

thanks for confirming maybe i will try that garlic trick with a small snail. thanks for the link as well i keep forgetting to refer to that -.-"

I am using regular smooth gravel. tap water i didn't test. As i mentioned this was with one of those cheap water testing strips it is VERY hard to even tell the correct colors. and im housing a Green spotted puffer ( GSP ) 1 only in a 53gal tank, filtered. it's been running for the past year now onl...

i feed mine pretty much the same diet but include snails and trying earthworms and maybe mealworms as well. i do not feed any fish to my puffer. This happens to my GSP as well just the other day i had fast it for 3 days from last meal threw in a jumbo shrimp and let it nibble on it for 5-6 minutes o...

thanks just wanted to confirm as some people said you can but i didn't believe it was possible

I have seen some online statements people said they have turned their brackish water puffers into freshwater i guess they kept them in freshwater all it's life. Is this by any means possible and if so is it healthy? I assume it's possible but it won't be healthy in the sense that freshwater fish exp...

these are the numbers i got they were from those cheap testing strips and cheap hydrometer so some might be iffy.. Salinity - 1.004 GH- 120/180 ( looked like 180 to me ) KH- 40/80 PH- 6.5 No2- 0.5-1 No3- 20 I assume some of those readings are too high and salinity probably too low which i am raising...