The Puffer Forum

If the water has any kinds of pollutants or pesticides, they might end up in the feeders. Even if they aren't affecting the feeders, they will build up in the puffer over time. This is, of course, a non-issue if you know the river is clean.

Don't all puffers nip fins? See this thread: https://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/vi ... =4&t=32537

No personal experience, and don't know anything about dwarf puffers and compatibility...

Out of curiosity: all of the pictures I've seen of P. leiurus have it with a target shape on the back. What are you using to ID this one?

I was going to cycle beforehand so I could add fish sooner, but using safestart, I see there's not much point, and I'd probably kill some of the bacteria in transit anyway. Keeping some of the water seems like very good advice, but also like it might quickly get impractical with larger tanks (10g an...

Yes, that is what I thought. I wonder why other people have had trouble. Perhaps it was an issue with the fish. Why do you hate college tanks? Not meant as an attack, I don't have a tank yet and will seriously consider your advice. Is it the constant moving around, the lack of space, or something el...

I've read in a lot of places that safestart colonies will sometimes crash after 6 months to a year. What are peoples' experience with that? Is it a bad idea to use safestart if I don't have to? And as a somewhat separate question, I was going to cycle the tank before bringing it back to college in a...

What a great-looking fish! And the attitude is amazing. Guess he never gets bored when he always has his reflection to attack.

Could you please post a pic?

pufferjkb wrote: Let's all become puffers & go live in the fresh, brackish, or
marine waters of our choice. Puffers don't have economic worries.

This I agree with wholeheartedly.

Doesn't specifically mention pufferfish, but this article says that basically any fish can get dropsy: http://freshaquarium.about.com/od/termsandtables/p/Dropsy.htm It does look just like amphibian bloat, which I think is identical to dropsy. But neither this nor that article are necessarily meaning...

I've been sort of thinking of getting one of the smallish, ambush-y pufferfish (miurus, suvattii, baileyi), and I've done a fair amount of research about requirements. However, one thing that came up in a few places was that, once you convince them to go off of live food (which is apparently general...

I would like to get a SAP in a tank by itself, but I know that to really keep one long-term one either has to constantly trim the "teeth" or feed lots of snails and other hard foods (like plants on grazing rocks, I've read?). I am unable to have a separate colony of snails, and I'm not int...