The Puffer Forum

Where is the best place to find prime for the tap water? The local pet stores around me are petsmart, petco, pet supplies plus, and The Fish Place (where i buy the puffers and frozen brine shrimp). Or should I buy it online? And is there a specific one that is better than another?

Everything that I have been doing is what The Fish Place told me in regards to caring for my fish. I have learned my lesson not to follow their instructions and to do more research on them. Thank you everyone for all your help! It was also the fish store that told me about monthly water changes =/ I...

I would also like to add that I have a filter for a 15 gallon tank, not the filter that came with the tank. I felt that one was not working properly when I first set the tank up.

I do feed them smaller snails once or twice a week. The pet stores by me all use the same test strips I used for my water testing. I will get a water test kit and retest the water again. The fish store I bought all of my fish from (including the pleco) told me that the amount of fish in my tank is f...

I did a follow-up ammonia test, and the levels are ideal for the results.

i did another strip test today. The nitrate is high at 80 (was not when i first did the test the day after puffer stopped coming out of cave). Nitrite is safe at 0. Total hardness is soft at 75. Alkalinity is low between 0 and 40. pH is neutral at 6.8. Its a ten gallon tank with 3 pea puffers. 2 alb...

I have had my puffer tank for about a yr. There are 3 puffers and 2 albino half-beaks. They all live in harmony together. Within the last 4 or 5 days I have noticed one puffer no longer comes out at every feeding, and has been hiding in a cave for the majority of the time. The other two puffers are ...