The Puffer Forum

PufferPunk- GSP is bright green, happy and hungry...constantly! Not giving in and feeding him daily is hard! His body is 3in. The LFS I got him from had their puffers just about fully acclimated to marine- 1.021, so that's where his SG is. I do not have a skimmer...I have a 55g tank (For some reason...

(probably an old-school newbie question; sorry! :) mmmkay... So I cycled my tank for about 8 weeks and about 10 days ago introduced a GSP. My water has still been 0/0/~5, but yesterday when I woke up I noticed that the water was kinda cloudy (grayish mist), almost all of a sudden. My first thought w...

If you've been feeding it, it should still be alive. But you should also be seeing zero ammonia, zero nitrites and some measurable nitrAtes, usually at least, unless you have a fuge or skimmer running? I'm at 0/0/5-10 right now. I have been in the market for a skimmer, and have been trying to find ...

What have you been putting in the water to "feed" the cycle? Any fish? Any food? If you cycled the tank from an established tank, then raised the salinity that fast, you probably killed the bacteria. And if you haven't been feeding the bacteria either, its probably "starved" to ...

When adjusting a cycled tank, you have to go at .002 a week or less, or you kill off a lot of bacteria and might get spikes. Fish are fine with much faster in many cases, but the bacteria in the tank are another matter. What fish were in the tank keeping it cycled? If the fish are still healthy and...

I cycled my tank at 1.016, and drip acclimated to 1.022 over a period of a couple days. I read somewhere that dripping at a rate of increase of 0.001/hr would be fine, and shouldn't cause a major problem...I was super paranoid though, so I stretched it out a bit more....ammonia and nitrites are stil...

mmmkay, so I've been waiting to get a GSP for about 2 months. Tank is finally cycled, I drip acclimated the sp. grav to match the LFS, and all seems well... Now I have a couple extra questions. 1. I have a 30 gallon hexagon... (not my choice, a hand-me-down. free=great!) I was originally planning on...

Thanks Peregrine and Pufferpunk...I have already read that article...(actually on several different websites, so at least its getting around!) I noticed when I went back today that the same puffer I was looking at yesterday no longer had the black stomach. At first I thought it was a different guy, ...

I went to the LFS and noticed that they have several GSPs, one of which seemed really interested in me :smitten: , but the little guy has a black colored stomach :scared: .... is this normal? He seems full of energy and healthy otherwise...no white spots or anything. I talked to the owner of the LFS...