The Puffer Forum

I put a second powerhead in my 55g tank tonight and one of my figure 8's got sucked up the intake. I managed to get him out and he was puffed up. Now He's got some red areas up by his head. Looks like maybe some burst blood vessels or something like that. I dont even know if he's going to live. He's...

My fig 8's absolutely love the krill, they almost swallow the pieces whole.. I only give it to them once every other week or so.

Thanks so much, makes sense now, I'll try to figure it out this weekend, I'll let you know how I did!

oh you said an hour and a half?? yeah I might be in bed then cuz that'll be 10pm here. Not sure!

oh Ill be here, just not sure where to go from where Im at, I think I need a bit more salt to up the SG (than the 12 ounces) just trying to figure our how much more I should add, like do I try 14 ounces, or 16... know what I mean sort of. I dunno!

Thank you, that helped me to understand a bit more. So are you saying to me that I need to make the SG of the mixture in my bucket the same as I would want my tank? (not sure if that makes sense) To use you example... if I want my tank at 1.006, then the mixture in the bucket needs to be 1.006? When...

I just dont get how anyone measures the salt, perhaps Im just not very smart. If you cant measure it by weight then can you measure it my volume?? tablespoons?? It just seems like everyone is telling me to throw in "some" salt , mix it up and hope for the best, seems a little off to me. Se...

so how do you figure out how much salt to add? If you don't measure by weight how do you measure it? I do a 10% water change each week, approx

yah not sure what the water was before I put it in, someone worked out for me that 12 ounces was how much salt I needed and so thats what I've been doing. I'm still not 100% familiar with knowing or finding out how much salt to use, a little confusing to me

I have a 55g tank with 2 figure 8 puffers. When I got them they were in FW so I let them settle for a week in FW. Then I started adding salt. I had some help working out how much salt I needed and it turned out that I should mix 12 ounces of salt in 5 gallons of water for 24 hrs. Then add another 5 ...

sorry that was me, (the post made by Guest) must have been half asleep this morning and forgot to sign in

ok thanks

I am trying to enter the march contests but when I went to imagesquash.com (as listed in the competition rules) the site seems to have changed ... anyone know of a different one? or what's up with this one?

thanks, will do!

Recently purchased 2 beautiful fig 8's about 2 inches long. I noticed after the first day that the one guys tummy was a tiny bit concave. Boxermom advised me to treat for IP's ... just in case. I'm soaking their food in a combination of Metronidazole and Praziquantel along with some garlic guard) Th...