The Puffer Forum

If we seemed to talking down to you I apologize for all of us, but we have no way of knowing whether or not you are an experienced fishkeeper or an enthustiastic novice with no familiarity with water chemistry. I did start my introductory post with "Not new to keeping tanks". I suppose I ...

But snorting sodium bicarbonate or any other fine powder is not good practice. Many, many people who keep African cichlids use baking soda in what is usually called a Rift Lake buffer (salt is included in this mix), with no negative effects on the fish species. In fact, cichlids do much better as a...

I understand that.

The fish have now been added. Seem happy and curious.

I also helped the cycle by using water from my existing tank, plus a small filter sponge.

Kelly

Pufferpunk wrote:Also, Bio-Spira is for instant cycing.

I get that.

I've always waited 24 hrs. or so before dropping my fish in. On the off chance I've got a dead batch of BS or some other parameter crisis. No fish loss yet after 6 tank setups.

Kelly

It is not sugested to keep these species together for several reasons--GSPs are more aggressive, grow 3x larger & require much higher SG than F8s. You may be able to keep them together as very young juveniles though, if the fish you have don't turn out to be killers. By then it's too late... I ...

Hello folks, I'm new to keeping puffers, but not new to keeping tanks. Presently I have 2 African cichlid tanks, a 65 gallon Lake Malawi and a 135 Gallon Lake Tanganyika. (images of species kept in sig below) So, I've just setup a 36 gallon tank which is cycling with the help of BioSpira. I purchsed...