The Puffer Forum

Also, thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience with me, Spoot, Ting, Sstimac, and Boxermom!

It's appreciated!

Oh, you might want to check with your lfs if their F8's or GSPs come already in brackish. When I bought my F8's they were in fresh. When I asked the manager at the LFS about the specifics of their BW tanks, for the purpose of matching, the guy said to me, "Just keep dumping salt in until the P...

Snail eggs that fell in from above the water line, maybe? I've seen orange colored snail eggs before.

I don't think snails could lay a clutch in mere seconds, though.

Cool... good article on fishless cycling by Rocker. Informative and interesting. It answered my one major concern about how to keep the tank ready for a time before adding fish. Very good. Thanks for the reference. I think I will use the ammonia method, as "Cycle" seems to be the only thin...

I will go ahead and locate and read those articles. I never knew the instant cycle stuff was any good. Just never really trusted it for some reason, but then again, have never had to try it. I cycled one tank in my life, years ago, and used gravel or filters to instantly cycle all my other tanks. I ...

Hello everyone, and thanks for all the great info I've read already. I've always kept FW tanks, and I want to start a BW tank for either F8 or GSP's. I was wondering, since puffers are sort of sensitive, what fish should I use for the initial cycling process? Mollies, maybe? I don't know if they wou...