The Puffer Forum

The shop i'm on work experience at today had a visit from the manager of hagen in UK and a guy from canada who designs their products and had a hand in the production of cycle, the hagen version of safe start if you will. And according to him they are "pretty much exactly the same" and &qu...

I apologise for hi-jacking the thread but didn't think a new one was necessary when this one is here. I am about to be the proud owner of a single female salivator. The problem is i'm picking up the tank (60 litre) tomorrow and it will obviously need to be cycled and for this i shall be using safe s...

i hadn't fed him when i went to the lfs for some plants and got some snails too, i just dropped them in, he followed one right the way down then attacked it as soon as it hit the bottom. He swam around another for a bit then decided to leave it, but there were 5 or 6 i dropped in, and i aint seen an...

Yeah in UK. In Middlesbrough, you have no idea how hard it was to get a freshwater puffer that's not a mbu or a fahaka up here.

Just a little update, Billy (as named by my mother "because he's on his own") is doing just fine, he's stopped swimming up and down the back wall and started investigating a bit more. He's also eating a lot better, almost all the bloodworms i put in for him go and also he's started eating ...

i've actually noticed he's swimming mear the top where the current is strongest, so i'll try increasing it and see how it goes. he is a singleton, i was going to buy 2, but didn't think there'd be room in the tank, even though the guy said "you can easily get 6 in a 20 gallon tank" :roll: ...

I saw him snaffle a couple of bloodworms yesterday, but still no snails, which is quite worrying, i did the crush and wiggle thing aswell but to no avail, i think i may need to trim his teeth. I've read the topic on it, but is it easy to do the first time? as i'm quite nervous about it. Also, what w...

I've recently purchased an SAP, and he is more interested in swimming up and down the mirror at the back of the tank than he is in eating those tasty bloodworms. I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas about how to make him stop chasing himself? Also, his teeth are already quite large, i've dro...