The Puffer Forum

When my tank was running nicely , my gobies would spawn every month on the dot.
When the male was guarding the eggs nothing was allowed near. It was amazing to see a KG literally headbut a F8 away.

It goes from bad to worse. Despite doing lots and lots of water changes I just lost an Orange Chromide :-( Water params are as follows Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate somewhere between 12.5-25 on the tetra kit. I am colour blind so it's a bit hard to tell sometimes lol PH 8 SG is running at 1.007 Had a ...

Totally with you on that PP. Still fish in there so have been in the process of a good wc as I found one of the puffers :-( Treating for whitespot and added some melafix as well due to the marks on the chromides. I'm not in any rush to get the puffers it's just I hate the 2 hr round trip to a lfs th...

My friend who works/runs a lfs popped in and checked found 3 of them dead.
He did a waterchange etc but I found the last one dead when I got home
Now I have to try and hunt down a couple more. Most LFS here won't even get in Brackish fish anymore.

Just got back from a week in Scotland only to find my F8's all dead
Green chromide isn't looking to clever, case of whitespot though and a very pale patch on it's side.
That's it I'm not holidaying again.

Thanks for the info Patric99.
Neither of mine have the white line on the fin
They are still young though.

Patric, The waspfish are neovespicula Depressifrons and it is venomous not poisonous. I am not sure if the orange chromides are a male and female. One is much brighter than the other and they spend a lot of time squabbling :shock: Plenty of pics of the chromides and waspfish here http://s73.photobuc...

I have 4 F8's in a Rio 240 along with 3 mollies,2 waspfish 3 knight gobies 2 orange chromides and a green chromide.
The knight gobies are spawning every month and it is quite amazing to see a F8 pushed out of the way by a rushing Knight gobie protecting the eggs.

You might consider Chromides and maybe waspfish.
Just a thought.

Agnate,
Ref the wasp fish.
I have 2 in with 4 x F8's all seems good so far. The wasp fish have their own little corner which they spend most of their time in and the puffers leave well alone

I got my Chromides and knight Gobies from wholesale tropicals on the tropical fish finder web site. They have both listed still :-) Can't recommend them enough superbly packed delivered early, spot on. http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i210/smudger72/fish/chromides.jpg Not the best picture in the wo...

Hilly wrote:You had a look into Chromides at all?

I have four orange chromides and a green chromide in my puffertank. All lovely fish.
I will add though that one of the orange chromides has has had it's fin nipped

From what I can see these are the options you have. 1. Bumblebee gobies- You could have lots of these and my F8's have left well alone,they are also good fun to watch.I know you have discounted these but they do seem to work. 2. Orange Chromides - Lovely fish only one male in a tank though. May work...

Pandaking, feeding garlic won't cure the Ip problem it might make the puffer eat more though. Unfortunately in the UK you can't buy any decent medications Geltek etc are not available here. I used Flubenol wormer with my F8's when they had IP's with great effect but I just checked and that is only a...

I have an Ecco 2232 and it is superb.
Very quiet and I have just added it to my snail breeding tank because of the nasty cloudy water
It's cleared it in less than a day.