The Puffer Forum

I dont know about you, but whenever i have tried to convince my friends to get in to fish keeping they have all looked at me like i am an idiot!

Most people just cannot comprehend the joys of keeping an interesting fish.

Plus i dont have any friends

Unfortunately i am moving to a temporary home and will not be staying there much. I have always thought that if i had to move i would take him with me but on this occassion it is completely impractical. If i was moving to a permanant home (for a number of years) i would definately take him. But only...

Hi There, I have had a fig 8 puffer fish now for coming up to 3 years - He is a great fish. My circumstances have however changed and i need to move house within the next 4 weeks. Ideally i would prefer to give the fish away to a good home. I dont really like the idea of sending him back to the fish...

I was aware that SAP's teeth grow faster.

But do different Fig 8's teeth grow faster than others? Maybe down to the water quality? Im not sure.

I have had my Fig 8 puffer now for 3 years. I generally add snails (little round ones about the size of his eye and a little bigger) once every couple of months. I dont grow any in a special tank. I did try to but the malayasian trumpet snails took over! I get the snails whenever i visit the LFS to ...

Hi again. I did my weekly water change on Sunday. I changed the whole tank around and blocked off the place that the puffer used to hide (there are plently of other caves for him). I changed the flow of the filters to go the other direction and added a bit more air flow into the water. At first ther...

Ill give it a go this weekend and will let you know. - it is just a bit of a pain. We will see what the outcome is.

Nope he looks fine, eats fine. Gold is nice and shiny. Just doesnt move much.

27 degrees Celsius at the moment.

Guess it gets cooler at night.

Nope, Havnt changed anything in the room.

It has got warmer though. Its been very humid recently.

Hi, My F8 that i have now had for about 2 and a half years has started to behave strangly. The tank is 140litres and he shares it with 5 bumblebee gobies. It is brakish at .004-6. I do a 20% water change every week and the tank is massively over filtered with one large external canister filter and 2...

My Fig 8 that i have had for 2 years seems to not like the light. Not really sure why. He usually finds a nice dark corner of the tank during the day when the light is on then when the light goes off becomes quite active. The tank is heavily decorated. I quite often find that when i move the decorat...

I Finally managed to find some bumblebee gobies at a fish store. I have added 5 to the new tank (it has been left to mature for 1 month and water quality is good). I have to say that the Bumblebees are a lot more active than I thought they would be, they are really entertaining to watch. So now I st...

You know it is funny you should say that about the F8 not eating the mollie fry. I used to keep mollies and platies with the puffer when it was in freshwater (in my uneducated days of keeping the F8) - When the platies had fry - of which they had lots! the puffer would eat them, but when the mollies...

I think you are all right and that would be what you said. The existing puffer is in a 45l tank at the moment but is being moved to a 140l tank shortly - The tank is being left to cycle at the moment, I dont think that it is worth the risk to add another F8, so im gonna just put in 5 BB gobies. Luck...