The Puffer Forum

Hi everyone, this may be a strange question but is there any problem with me feeding marine snails from my reef tank to some dwarf puffers? My son really wanted some dwarf puffers for his 60l biorb and I’ve got some coming tomorrow. I have thousands of colonista snails that breed in my 180g reef tan...

6 days and no reply. What an excellent forum this is!

That's a good policy for a store to have. I like that. It sounds like your live rock, while it was not in someone's display tank, was in fact from an established system. I bought my valentini (about 1.5") and a 3/4-1" clownfish at the same time. I have a 40g breeder, so it is about the sa...

Pufferpunk wrote:A cycled tank should be showing nitrate. Was this LR from an established system?

Also, my local fish shop insist on testing a water sample before selling any marine fish so it's been double checked.

Pufferpunk wrote:A cycled tank should be showing nitrate. Was this LR from an established system?

No it was cured live rock from my local fish shop. I've never really had any spikes in levels the whole time it's been in the tank and I have about 20kg of live rock in there.

[welcome] Please post your water parameters: ammonia/nitrite/nitrate. I'm new to this so apologies, I'm using API test strips and a Salifert test kit for Phosphate and I'm getting zero readings for Nitrite and Nitrate levels are still showing zero and phosphate is showing 0.03. What other info shou...

Hi everyone, Had my Valentini puffer for 4 days now, he's feeding great and seems to be loving his new home! I even had him eating some raw king prawn from my tweezers today! It's a new FOWLR tank, I say new the live rock was in and cycling for 6 weeks before I brought the puffer home. My three year...