The Puffer Forum

I get them all from the same source; a highly recognized LF in the bay area. We did drop a worm in the tank, but only a few went after it; most were just calm and ignored it. They had about 30 puffers inside a 10 gallon breeder. Is it bad long term to just have 1 or 2 puffers in a community tank? If...

I did a 20% water change like usual. This time I rinsed the canister filter components with the tank water. It was a bit dirty, but I still did a light rinse and not too thorough of a clean as to maintain the bacteria and not change the water parameters too much too fast. Woke up and found the puffe...

I"ll do a water change and rinse my canister filter in it tonight. Any other recommendations for getting a puffer to eat? Is it a lonely, starving myself to death behavior? Since I have a 20 gallon long, should I consider getting 5 more puffer fish? I understand it's a risk for the other commun...

This is my second pea puffer within 2 weeks that won't eat. This time I got live bloodworms too in addition to frozen brine shrimp, daphnia and blood worms. There are pond snails in my aquarium of various sizes, but I've never seen any puffer take a bite. I can't seem to figure out why puffers die i...