The Puffer Forum

I agree with Pufferpunk I think that combo would be great just make sure you get your puffers about the same size and introduce them at the same time

Well we are paying off our debt and saving up to build a house in the next few years and were planning on putting a 12'L x 4'W x4'T tank as the room divider between the kitchen and living room. I already have the floor plans since my wife is a designer at her company, and she worked with a architect...

So recently I have been seeing these guys around locally for the past month or so and I have wanted to buy one of these puffers since I got into sw fish. So I guess I want to know if they are hard to care for or have any special food requirements or if they are like other sw puffers. I have seen alo...

Yeah the dwarf lion fish do really well with puffers I had one in my tank for 6 months but lost it in the move to a bigger tank. I also found out that the Fu Man Chu Lions are really good tank mates for puffers they like to hide in the rock work and some one I know from a lfs has had one in a tank w...

It is not neccesarily ich My S&S had ich and so I treated him with copper and daily formulin dips for 6 weeks along with all of my other fish and left the display empty for that time and he has always had them. I just wrote it off as the sand from my substrate since he plays in it all the time.

He will probably nip at the anemone.

I have a blue lined cinnamon clown with my S&S puffer they are good buddies, but my puffer ate the anemone 2 weeks after I put him in the tank and it was a pretty agressive anemone ( pink tip haitian).

Sorry I didnt take anypics and if I had it wouldnt matter since my comp crashed and I lost everything. There weren't any actual holes but there were alcerations and alot of them. It wasn't the puffers fault or ours entirely as my dad had purchased a cleaner kit for his tank and they told him the cra...

Yeah well it turns out the problem was he ate 4 blue leg hermit crabs whole and they tore up his stomach pretty good thus causing the stress. I have a pic of him puffed up I just have to get it scanned onto my comp monday. My mom said when she got home he had some lumps on his side and we figure the...

Hey everybody my dad just called me to tell me his 10-11" golden puffer (Arothron meleagris) was dead when he got home from work today. He was has been awesome eating great, no weird behavior since we got him 4-5 months ago then last night he didn't eat and today he was acting weird and then bo...

I just made it through ich with my S&S.

I actually treated him with a light formalin dip every 2-3 days and did a 100% water change. He is doing great it didnt even stress him out enough to make him puff.

No it shouldn't be a problem the reason they are a pest to reef tanks is because they will out compete the corals for light and they can clone and spawn pretty quickly. But in a fish only tank they might actually be considered benificial as they would help consume some of the nutrients in the water.

Well I finally found the problem. Today I decided to clean out the qt tank and put all my other fish in the display tank except P-Diddy and I treated him to a nice 45 min formalin bath. While he was in the bucket I decided to clean out the qt and put in fresh unmedicated water. Well what do you know...

I just plugged in the power head in last night but he hasn't been eating for 4-5 days now.

I figure he is just stressed with being in the qt with all the other fish, its just I am not used to him not eating.

Well the squinting eyes were but I still dont know why he isn't eating.

Yeah I have had all my fish in a qt tank for 2 1/2 weeks now. The pain thing just started last night and I found out what it was my powerhead started to short out and would occasionally shock the tank and I guess the puffer was the one who noticed the most. But he was eating great up until a 4-5 day...