The Puffer Forum

I live in the middle of no where and cannot find a lot of things for fish care locally. Even the small pet shop here cannot get a lot of stuff. I have ghost shrimp and blue pearl shrimp breeding colonies. I also have lots of ramshorn snails. My first puffer did not make it and would not eat the live...

I am trying to find some cultures for live food for dwarf puffers. I am going to pick up some frozen bloodworms but I want live food too. I have an earthworm colony started but had no luck getting my first puffer to eat them. Sadly I lost him and I am starting over. I found someone selling banana wo...

I took the tank apart and when I moved the driftwood I found a pile of young snail shells and a grown ramshorn with a large cracked place on top of his shell. Looked like something had tried to take a bite out of it but had just shattered the shell. So I know he was eating. The driftwood smelled rea...

I am going to try again but plan on waiting awhile. I keep going over what could have went wrong. I am taking the tank apart and cleaning every thing. I am pretty sure it was a fungus that killed him. I just do not know how he got it. He was also extremely thin. I am looking for all the worm meds th...

Well it looks like my first attempt at keeping a dwarf puffer has ended in failure. He died this evening. Both of his eyes clouded over and a white, cottony substance grew from them. I feel so bad. I am going to take the tank down this week and sanitize it. I don't know how he would have caught a fu...

I was told to add it because the puffer developed a slightly cloudy eye. Today the eye looks like it has a tuft of something on it. He still hasn't eaten as far as I can tell. I had to leave the house for awhile and when I got back he was floating near the top of the water and looked bad again. I ch...

He is a little more alert this morning and not so thin. I looked through all my tanks and picked out newly hatched snails and added them last night. I also put some of the snails favorite food in the middle of the tank so they would all come out in the open. His belly is not so sunken today. I also ...

I read through the articles linked. I live in a very rural area with not a lot around. No major stores, just a mom and pop grocery store, car lots, pizza places, and one small pet store run by a friend of the family. I went there today and picked up some Melafix. The pet store owner said she has had...

I was using baby earthworms to try to feed him. I started a colony inside so I could get the tiny newly hatched ones. they are about 1/2 to inch long. I am going to harvest some mosquito larvae and try a few of those. I am pretty sure he needs wormed but I cannot find a definite answer on what to us...

I have tried live earth worms. I do not have access to any other type like blood worms. I can get mosquito larvae, I was wondering if that would work. I feed them to my neon tetras. I am ordering some frozen bloodworms. I have raw frozen shrimp too. I have wormed other fish before but I wasn't sure ...

I just checked on him again. He looks even thinner today. I am saying him because he has just the start of a dark stripe on his belly. His eyes look a little cloudy too. He is swimming around looking things over. He even came and checked out the bloodworms I tried to feed him. He just didn't eat. I ...

I got my first pea puffer today. I have been planning on it for awhile. I had a 10 gallon tank that I used to raise mystery snails and ramshorns. It has been cycled for 6 months. I sold all the mystery snails and began planning on a puffer. The tank is planted, has black sand substrate, driftwood, a...