The Puffer Forum

In case anyone else runs into this: he's down to begging and eating every other day - still more than before the accident, but not non-stop. I think maybe he was in pain and needed a lot of food to heal, and now he's just learned that begging will get him food every time so does it more.

I've had a dwarf puffer for over 3 years now. 2 weeks ago, when I was cleaning the tank behind some plants the tube got clogged. I knocked the debris out in the sink and it was my puffer. He was not moving, I assumed he was dead but threw him back in the tank anyway. He was not dead. And now he won'...

I got a dwarf puffer a week ago. He's very small and is in a 56L/15 gallon tank with 3-5 Amano shrimp (I never see them all at once, but I think the 5 are still there) and some pond snails. The aquarium store said they treated them all for internal parasites when they arrived, but to be safe I put h...