The Puffer Forum

How's he doing? Feeding yet?

Can't beat waterchanges

Oh and have you thought about using mangroves?

Off topic but I just noticed you say to add marine salt in the article. I have aquarium salt, is this different? Does it matter? Yes you need marine salt like instant ocean The sand you have for for brackish water is fine as the salt will give you the ph you need argonite sand doesn't really help w...

Yes 1.020 will do but if you want anyhting to live on the live rock a little higher is better for inverts. My gsp ended up in a full reef tank he loved it and he didn't bother snails or hermit crabs which was good.my pocket didn't like it tho! So yeah don't catch the coral bug unless you have lots o...

Get yourself a protein skimmer raise the salinity to 1.023 and you can put all kinds of macro algaes and live rock In the tank it's looks good and the macro algae and skimmer keep the water tip top.I did this with my gsp he loved it especially grazing on whatever he could find on the live rock.

It's a star! Haha

I don't see any problem with what your doing as long as the fish don't seem stressed by it.
I do 50% weekly and filter cleaning every 4 weeks

Well my Abei puffer finally made it home at 8am this morning..Looks very healthy too, the pics that were sent to me were taken at a weird angle lol..but im glad he made it ok. Going to dose him within a week or so, but man this is one active puppy! curious little one. Attached a video, enjoy https:...

You could go half and half with tap and ro for waterchanges but not pure ro as you have to put minerals back into it

Just stick to your tap water test it directly from the tap before you write it off as you have put in plants and snails which could have had some die off contributing to the small amount of nitrite it's probably not like that straight from the tap. Also nitrate from the tap in small quantities like ...

I wish I didn't rehome mine now he was a real personality and was I full marine setup

He looks great.good to see your feeding him the right stuff

Pufferpunk wrote:If you're rich!

Haha yes I know but I'm a puffer addict and would happily pay the price to own one!I'm already saving

Arny wrote:If you can find one get a cross river.

Have you ever seen one In the uk?I would love one
You have now made me want one more haha