The Puffer Forum

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Phew, thank you so much for your replies... :D Normally I don't trust LFS but this man was just so stubborn and persistant. I don't know anything about where DPs spawn in nature, but I'll go with RTR and "strictly FW" :) Then I believe I'm not "torturing" my DPs by keeping them i...

Just been down in one of the fish stores here in town. I asked the manager for some snails for my DPs - and thereby accidentally mentioned the words "puffer fish". I shouldn't have done that because then the manager started explaining to me just how big this fish would be (held out his arm...

Really, do they like garlic? I'll try! And I'll keep offering the worms too every day when the other one is fed. I hope he starts eating then....

Thanks Boxermom!

One of my little young DPs which I bought recently doesn't show any interest in the bloodworms I usually feed my DPs. I had some snails, but didn't get to make a snail farm and now the snails are all eaten. The little DP concerned has already become skinnier. I keep this fish in a small tank with on...

Ok, thanks...

If they are too young to sex, then when can you tell? How big/old should they be?

Thanks:) Maybe they are females... hoped they would be one female and one male...

Anyone else on these questions?

Hi guys I wondered if it's possible for any of you to tell me the sex of my DPs by looking at these pictures of my two little friends?? :D Also I wonder if they're grown-ups by now or? I think they're between 2-3 cm long. I can't see any wrinkles behind any eyes myself and can't see any belly lines ...

Alright, thanks - and I just soak/thaw the worms in medicine right?

Hope the DPs don't explode then

Hi again everyone! :) As I told you earlier on I am trying to deworm my small DPs with Gel Tek. When I fed them the worms with medicine, the fish were quite slim. Then they ate a bit and weren't quite so slim but on the other hand also not as fat as I would like them to be. Then this morning, all of...

Alright, thanks, Boxermom...! I just don't see any wrinkles behind any eyes.. Well maybe there are wrinkles behind Scar's eyes now that I come to think of it! But I just thought they were some kind of scars too. I'll take a look at Scar again:) The other fish may be females then. But that would be l...

Unfortunately I don't have a picture right now... but they don't move or enlarge. Anyway they haven't done so far. I think I won't worry about it then. That DP won't ever be pretty when it grows up I think... :? Naming him/her is easy then, Scar it is... ;) When mentioning growing up I actually don'...

Ok, thanks for the advice. I did think it was weird that they didn't just eat the worms when I fed them; they actually get the entire worm in to the mouth often - and then spit out again. But as I mentioned above I've begun treating them for IP just today, so I hope they'll improve after that... I r...

By the way: one of my small DPs also have some thin white stripes on its body. It kind of looks like old scars. Do you think it's old scars that I don't need to worry about - or is it some disease that I need to treat?

Oh no

But mine are so small... I really don't get how they can have slightly overgrown teeth already?! But it must be teeth that I see. What else can it be... I really hope they will eat more and it'll go away