The Puffer Forum

So I have a new problem... I saw several very small white dots on my puffer this evening. I'm guessing it's ich? I've never had this happen to my fish before, and I'm especially not sure how to handle this with a puffer. All my water parameters have been good since I started keeping this fish a week...

Arny wrote:

PuffDadie wrote:So...back to my original question. Lol

Can anyone tell what the gender of my SAP is?

You cannot tell the sex of saps

No I cant

So...back to my original question. Lol

Can anyone tell what the gender of my SAP is?

I was able to get 10 little snails for free today from Petsmart. Going to try hitting up a couple more places this weekend to see if I can find more.

Question: how big is too big for the snails? Will my SAP even mess with them if they are too large?

Thanks for the help everyone. Looks like I got a lot of research to do and some snails to buy.

He needs lots of swimming room for a small fish trust me on that one. Their teeth grow at an alarming rate so 90+% of his diet should be home reared snails or you will need to perform dentistry on him. Great fish to have by the way but hard work if you don't give 100% Ok so where do I start with th...

Oh crud!

It was sold to me as a DP...

Ok, so now I'm a bit panicked. How similar are the two? What big things would I need to change?

Hello everyone! I finally have my first Dwarf Puffer. Got him/her on Tuesday for my daughters tank and I think it's a female, but I'm not a 100% sure. Could someone help me confirm the gender? Sorry for the crappy cell phone pics. I'll try and get some better ones later. http://i59.tinypic.com/10gih...

Hello everyone! I'm new here and new to the world of Dwarf Puffers. I've been in the hobby of aquariums for several years, but have only ever kept freshwater community fish. Recently, I set up a 10 gallon tank for the sole purpose of keep a dwarf puffer, however I had no luck finding a LFS store in ...