The Puffer Forum

With all due respect, we will be continuing how we currently feed our fish. They have a well balanced diet between feeder fish, ghost shrimp, brine shrimp, blackworms some frozen pellet and flake foods. I understand your point of view, and I am well aware that some people see it as cruel to feed liv...

yea without live food Dale starts taking bites out of his tankmates. If I could do pellets only I would but it’s really not an option. I’ll keep a new package of kanaplex and metaplex in hand until our feeder tank is going strong.

I wish I could say no more feeders however 3/4 of the tank eat live so that’s impossible. I did read your article, however I feel it’s better for the long term that these guys get the live feedings. I’ll be sure to get them from a reputable source from now on. Until recently we didn’t have a consist...

So as of now, Dale is doing fantastic! Do you think I should does the tank again just in case? Thank you again!

Yes thank you for directing me there! I had actually posted in one of the puffer group I belong to and no one had responded. Carl seems to have a great deal of experience with these guys so fingers crossed Dale starts getting better

Went to the local fish store today and purchased Kanaplex and Metroplex. Did a filter cleaning prior to dosing, fingers crossed he gets better soon

Will do. Thank you

Do not think I can set up a QT tank unfortunately. I plan on picking up pimafix and melafix today. Last night I dosed the tank with stress coat and the jungle fungus clear (it’s what I had on hand). He definitely doesn’t seem to be acting himself, as of now he is hanging out in the open and in the c...

This morning my Palembang puffer Dale was normal angry and in his hideyhole and at some point today he developed a few sizeable white spots (looks like fungus) Water was changed about 1.5 weeks ago, all other fish seem ok including the loaches. I have stress coated the tank and am doing a fungus tre...

These guys are too cool, one actually hangs around during the day. We have decided that we are unfortunately going to have to return them. Not enough space for more tanks at this time. Really bummed out about it, but again, should’ve done my research before hand. Thanks everyone for the info.

Even with aggressive fish living with them? The rest of the tank are also live feeders, we got these guys because our cichlids took out my buddies the bumblebees. Obviously we should’ve done research .... hopefully we can figure out a way to setup a 3rd and 4th tank (we have a separate feeder tank),...

We’ve never had an issue with feeders in the tank. Lots of plants and hiding places. The 2 puffers were together at the aquarium in what appeared to be a 40gallon tank.

Do you think they’d actually be able to take fish 2x their size out?

We recently acquired 2 dragon puffers from our local fish store. They said that for the most part they’re lazy fish, and don’t do much. They also said that it will eat other fish, but due to the whole lazy thing it shouldn’t be an issue in a community tank (ours is 160 gallons). I’ve read up a bit o...