The Puffer Forum

Yay! I finally found a figure 8 puffer to keep in my tank. As soon as I got my tank cycled, I performed my water change, checked my tank parameters, and rushed to my LFS hoping to find a puffer fish. It was my luck that they had stopped selling them for the breeding season! I ended up getting a few ...

Thank you for all of your great advice! I am well on my way with this tank, as I have added decor and I started the fishless cycling process with Dr. Tim's fish tank ammonia and a bacteria-filled filter pad from my most trusted LFS. I also cleaned out my gravel and did a practice water change before...

That was a lot of great advice! I read a lot of things that sounded like this, but the articles that you gave me were very concise and made it so that I do not have to have 20 tabs open on my computer at every given moment about setting up a new fish tank :) . I am worried about one more thing thoug...

Also, what type of filtration do you suggest? I plan on doing a water change about once per week like I do with my freshwater tank, and I presently have the tank on what I think is a Aqueon QuietFlow LED PRO 20 Aquarium Power Filter, which is rated for tanks up to 30 gallons. I got the thing so long...

Hello! This of my first post, and I am hoping that I will be able to contribute more to this site as my experience increases! I am working on setting up a 25 gallon brackish water tank for a single figure 8 puffer. I was originally debating between getting the GSP or the figure 8, but I decided on g...