The Puffer Forum

Thank you for your help. I think I'm going to cycle out this octagon tank for a bit and make it a cichlid tank. My 80 gallon ( which has a mix if Angel's, gourami, pleckos, small feeder fush that survived, a shark or two and a handful of danios ) is perfectly balanced... even though it needs a poop ...

Exit pretty much everything you said with the exception of a 50% water change instead of 80% initially so not to shock my puffer and it died carried her thank you for trying to help me though Granger. I think I'll stay away from puffers for now until I get better knowledge of how to care for them.

Update.. Did major water change. All levels are optimum level.... Ammonia & Nitrite 0, Nitrate 20ppm, the PH was a little high at 7.6 but I had just done a big water change. Going to retest today. Changed out the filters as well. Minimized on salt ( hydrometer lowest reading is a 1.0022.. .shoul...

Ok that all is very informative but what am I supposed to do with Benny while I cycle the tank?

Oh as far as Temp goes.. I do have one and it's a black stick on the side of the tank thermometer. It has a square that goes between 75-77* so I am thinking the tank is at 76*. What should it be at ?

I had this tank set up as an aquascape tank originally with aquadirt ( not sure of the name ) and some live plants in it. I decided to use it as a puffer tank when hubby brought one home and didn't want her to go into tank with other fish b/c she was kind of small and I have large community fish. I ...

Got Benny 2 weeks ago. She was happily swimming around and loving life. Got her a car to swim in and out and explore. She's small ( maybe 1") and I have her in a hexagon 15g tank. I have a water testing kit and test every few days bc we already lost one GSP. Her readings are... ph 7.0, Ammonia ...