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Has he eaten any snails yet ? cracking them open should get his taste buds racing.

When i first got Shermy, et was under 1 inch. My water parameters when south very soon after i cycled my tank and i took et to the LFS where we acclimatized and put into a full marine take while my tank at home recycled. Shermy was in full marine for about 3 weeks, i visited et often and et was alwa...

Sure someone has already spotted this article (hehe, excuse the phun)

http://news.ufl.edu/2009/02/17/puffer-fish/

Hopefully they will also give a detailed care & instruction manual with every pufferfish sold !

What is your thoughts on this?

My External canister filter has large sponge, scrubbing sponge & white cimertric rings (this one will stay). The trickle filter had only a sponge in and sometimes i put charcoal in. I had a look at the pet shop and i think i am going to go for one of those large internal canister filter (with sp...

Hi Firstly, best wishes for the new year! hope everyone & their puffers have a great one! I have been running two filters on my tank for a long time now, but i would like to replace the trickle filter or overflow filter with an new internal or external canister filter. (reason is, living in an o...

I am honored to have a reply from the beautiful/tech savvy yunachin ;-) Think i will steam it all once more (just in case) before the big tank clean and redecoration this weekend. All ill need now is to get a friend around with a nice camera so i can enter into the tank/puffer of the month comp (bee...

thanks for you input edmlfc1

Dig the names of your puffers

Greetings :-) Shermy is starting to get board of his decoration so i deiced to start bringing a bit of natural sea decors into a section of the tank. I was in Jeffery's Bay a few weeks ago and walking on the beach i found some lovely pieces of coral washed up on the beach. When i got back to cape to...

My GSP became alot more active/WhiteBellyed after i dropped the amount light in the tank, i now have one 35watt tube that is on for only 5 hours during the day, at night i have blue moon light LED's so i can see his movements

Thought i would share this: So two days ago i decieded to put in "moon led lights" and at the same time adjusted my lights timer for 4 hours less light per day (had the sun bulb running for 4 hours and a low watt green light running for about 4 hours into the evening, now i only have the s...

If the alea is growing back to fast, try setting your timer for your light to be on for fewer hours during the day (this helped me alot to the point where i only need to clean Algae every few months), also look and investing in some LED moon lights for the evenings

Hi Boxermom Remember Shermy's damaged skin ?? http://www.area51.co.za/Puffer/ShermyProblem.JPG I have been treating with vite's soaked food now for the last 5 months (as u suggested) and there are definate signs of healing (also looks like there wont be any scars as a few of the cuts have alsmost di...

Hi All

An update, Shermy's skin has started showing sign's of healing i have been treating him now for about 5 months with vite's soaked food, looks like the skin cuts will heal completely as i can't see any scars on the patches that have already healed.

Ill post a pic soon..

thanks for the feedback out of curiosity, has anyone one's GSP puffed up before with spikes exposed?

was also wondering if he has returned to normal size? Boxermom, thanks for clearing the anesthetize thing, would hate to be the suggester of bad advice! maybe you can give me/us some comment on these questions witch i though of after reading/posting to this topic - http://www.thepufferforum.com/foru...