The Puffer Forum

Congrats! He looks nice and healthy!

I have an internal sponge filter hooked up to an air pump which puts out a fair amount of surface tension breaking bubbles along with the HOB filter, now he is struggling to swim allowing the current from the filter to push him into items in the tank. Belly is gray to slightly darker charcoal color,...

GSP is now constantly surfing the top of the tank, parameters are as follows; Ammonia-0 Nitrite-0 Nitrate-5.0 pH-8.0 SG-1.010 Temp- 78. I put two small cherry shrimp in the tank last night for him and he chased them all over but couldn't catch them. I turned on the tank light this morning and he ref...

What is the required salinity for live rock? I went to my LFS and inquired because I wanted to get some for my tank but they told me that it wont work in brackish aquariums its solely for full marine. My current SG is 1.010

My GSP is roughly 2 inches and I've seen some nice red claw crabs roughly the size of a nickel at my LFS that I'm sure he will be able to handle. I plan on removing pinchers before feeding it to my puffer, unfair I know but I don't want him to get nipped.

Correction to my prior post...omit hermit crabs, I meant small fiddler or red-claw crabs

Variety is key as most of the experts in here will agree, as far as types of food goes I vary my GSP's diet between blood worms, Mysis shrimp, live snails 3 x/week, shell on shrimp, scallops and squid. I will give him some other live food such as ghost and cherry shrimp to chase around as well which...

Thank you, dropping to 78 as I type this!

Forget it my stupidity, I just read the product labels and they are almost identical so I went with the FW one.

Vita-Chem has a SW version and a FW version, which one would be beneficial in BW with an SG of 1.010 or doesn't it really matter?

Thanks for the reply PP, just seems kind of odd that this would present itself as suddenly as it did. He has had normal looking feces for over a week and just last night we noticed the stringy white stuff. Is there a chance it could be a urea discharge and not IP's? He ate a small piece of squid and...

Active Ingredients in the Tetra Parasite guard: Praziquantel, Dflubenzuron, Metronidazole and Acriflavin.

Has anyone had any luck using Tetra Parasite Guard for clearing up internal parasites? Just noticed white to clear stringy feces coming out of my GSP, people are claiming good luck with it for other fish by using 1/2 a tablet and soaking food in it.

Thank you for the reply PP, I will lower to 78.

Just have a quick question regarding optimal water temp for my GSP. His tank is holding perfect at 83, I know the high end recommendation is 80 but he seems fine at 83, very active eating great and swimming all over the tank exploring everything in his domain, not hanging at the surface at all panti...