The Puffer Forum

I keep green spotted puffers and figure 8's together in a species tank with a specific gravity of about 1.012, so far so good, however everytime i write anything on this forum about it everyone jumps down my throat for doing it. In my experiance they have been getting along relativly well, but i hav...

Alright, should I use tongs to individually feed the figure 8's then or try a new type of food. They swim up towards the top and then stop??? How do you suggest i get them to start eating?

SG's about .012

they are in a 20 gallon tank, and they are together, their bellies are not sunken in yet but just because they are only a couple days old.

I just bought 2 new figure 8's and for some reason they will not eat. When i start feeding my 3 other GSP's come to the surface but the figure 8's will not. Sometimes they will come about 3 quarters of the way up to the top of the tank and then swim back down. Ive tried feeding them many diff. types...