The Puffer Forum

well i added half the dosage of maricide last night after a huge water change and this morning our worst fear came true when i woke up and noticed the puffer dead :cry: poor little guy, and the worst part is i coulda prolly saved him if i started the right kind of treatment earlier :cry: hopefully m...

yes i did, i went to the store today and saw thatthey had some of the mardel maracide and we bought some, it looks exactly like this: http://www.petsr4u.com/prodimages/mardell/MardelMaracide.jpg i have a quick question about it though, it contains Malachite green, and i have heard that this stuff ki...

so i should use the same amount of salt for this as you use with ich? (3 teaspoons/1tblspn per gallon??)

im pretty sure thats for marine tanks, mine is a freshwater. my guy is looking worse and worse, his skin is starting to peel even. any help is greatly appreciated, i dont wanna lose him.

so my south american puffers are/have been crawling with velvet (i had thought it was ich till today!) for about 2-3 weeks now and we have been trying to treat it with this med called paracide green for about a week or 2 now. the chemical treatment we have been using though says it is "an excel...

its a 29 gallon and the saps are with the dps but they all get along just fine for now and i havent witnessed any aggression between any of my fish at all.

hi, i just got two SAP's and i have a few questions actually. the first one is that tonight when i went to feed my little guys i noticed that one of them had a little bulge on his belly, almost tumor like? i was wondering if that was normal or if anyone knows what it could be? (perhaps he ate one of...

hi i just bought 4 dp's for my mid-heavily planted 30 gallon tank. i was wondering if it would be ok to add a pignose to it, the dwarfs have so much room to hide (i hardly ever see them, the main reason i want a bigger puffer) so i dont think it would be too big a problem. also my tank does have a d...