The Puffer Forum

Hi all, it's been a while since my last post here, but I need some advice on what to do with my GSP. I have had "him" for around 12 months, and he came into my care from a fish only store with around 8 GSP's in a teeny FW tank (nothing new there). He has been living in a 50G, which is high...

I had a similar experience with my irrubescos. A male and female (about 1" long) went round the tank and ate everything (except the pleco) and then took out each other. All in a few nights. During the day they were fine.

It sounds like you are pretty lucky to have a live puffer! I would imagine a shock change from brackish to fresh water would be easily enough to kill a fish. Depending on the salinity of the brackish water, I would have recommended a change to FW over a few weeks, if not a couple of months. Though i...

Also regarding scats: I had a silver scat that grew in 6 months from really tiny (and cute I might add), to about 6" in length, and 3" tall. During that time it ate all of my plants, and most of the food I put in (they are really fast, and really greedy) I took mine back to the store and s...

Yeah I gathered it was a lurker, and have set up a "shipwreck's bell" (posh flowerpot :)) facing the front also. Great minds eh? It has done a bit of exploring which is a good sign - it must know by now it's in a tank by itself. Haven't managed to get it to eat anything yet, though it may ...

Well I went out this morning and checked their tank. Seems none of the "brackish" tanks are actually salted. So I brought one Fang's home, and it's now sitting in my quarantine tank. Since taking it out of the LFS (where their 10gal tank now contained 5 puffers) it's colouration has bright...

Thanks for the help! I'm pretty tempted to buy one of these. Will there be any issues with lowering the salinity back to full FW, because at the moment the LFS has them in a "brackish" tank. Though they don't sell any Instant Ocean or similar, so I suspect they are using Dr Wellfish aquari...

I've been ready to set up a second puffer tank for some time, and have been keeping a watchful eye for something interesting to pop up. The only puffers I've seen for sale locally (like within a 100 mile drive) are GSP's and occasionally Dwarf Puffers. Once I saw a pair of Irrubescos, and once a sin...