The Puffer Forum

Read about how to burp my puffer, kind off a scary thing to try. I'll try it , but I've gotta do some thinking on how to do this. My puffer's will jump out of the tank if I take the cover off and rile them up. Just to do a water change I have to drain some water out so they can't get out before I ta...

Thanks, I'll try to cut down their feeding a bit more and thaw the food, but I've tried, mussles, clams,prawn and everything they are suppose to eat when I got these guys. I finally gave up after moldy food at the bottom of the tank all the time.

Also only feed them every other day.

They only eat frozen food, ie. bloodworms, krill, etc, about once a month they get ghost shrimp, and pond snails when I clean my other tank. I usually don't thaw the food, but will now. Always worried about it going bad if it was thawed, oh well.
They live in a brackish tank by themselves.

Yeah, he always looks like this, I never seen him puff up. I keep them low keyed because I heard when they puff up, they die. You should see him after feeding .
Here another picture of him.
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I have 3 F8 puffer's in a 30gal hex tank. I've had them for over a year, so I assume they are pretty full grown now. The problem I have is one of them is a total fatty. It looks like a marble with fins. The other two aren't bad, one is a little overweight and the last is normal sized. Fatty is just ...

I put 10 or so ghost shrimp in their tank everytime I go buy them for my cichlids, and the DP don't bother them much. They have short life spans or they are picked on til they die, usually a couple months. I've heard both ways on the bb goby, but mine has been in the tank for a few months and has do...

I have a 10 gal tank in my bathroom with 2 dwarf puffers and a bumblebee goby in it. You hardly ever see anyone in the tank. What can I put in there with those fish that would be ok?

I give mine slices of zucinnni a lot, He likes that, as does all my plecos too

I really must have a weird Algea eater than, he's been in most of my tanks at one time or another and I've never seen anything happen to any of the other fish. I've probably had this guy for over 1 1/2 years now. Most of the time he's hiding under a shell or behind the heater. He'll probably be movi...

Thanks, The Algea eater does alot of moving around from tank to tank. He does fine wherever he is, I do aggree they aren't the neatest fish around but does it's job pretty good, he never messes with the DP. The butterfly loach is prettty much non exsistent, it stays stuck to the bottom of the filter...

I have 3 DP in a 15 gal tank in my bath room. They live with some ghost shrimp, an otto, a butterfly loach, and a chinese algae eater. The tank still looks pretty emty, do you think 2 more DP's would be ok?

Thanks, I was pretty sure, but after researching them a bit, it said these are often mistaken and a different breed. The FS on the other hand thinks they are F8's, whatever

I FS had these listed as F8's but since I have those already< i guessing that these are spotted puffers, amm I right?
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Let me know if they stay alive for a little longer, I put a couple mystery snails in mine and they ended up dead fast.