The Puffer Forum

:cry: :cry: I just wanted to thank everyone for all their advice and help with our puffer tank.The last two puffers died.One saturday and the baby sunday.Now all we have is a tank with ghost shrimp.We will continue to run the tank and cycle it. :roll: We did buy some mores for another tank.But we su...

:D Hello,I am down to doing one water change a day.I did add cycle to the tank thinking it would help but the next day I had to do a water change so it was a waste of money(nitrite too high).My water changes are still 50% unless its really high,then i do an 80%.The only thing I bought for the tank w...

Hi Everyone.Still doing water changes here.Down to once aday.I found a product called cycle?Any opinions.Anyway.Is there anything I can add to the tank for them to look and or play with.I bought a few ghost shrimp and the baby came face to face with it.He watched it for awhile and swam away.I though...

:D Well Ma did a water again this morning and its yellow.Yes we did find bio -spira.We did a water change yesterday and added it directly into the tank.Last night the nitrites were high so I had to do another water.No one told us at the store not to do another water change.They didn't even tell us t...

yellow means <.03mg/l.Thats whats on the test anyway.sorry

:cry: :cry: Yellow means ,.03mg/l.Its a tetra test for nitrites.We still have the two puffers hanging on.Mom went to the fish store and talked to them and the women didn't know much about puffers.The sold mom some crushed coral and told her that the coral will solve her tank balancing problems.But i...

I am sorry.I have tested the tanks nitrItes.That is what is yellow.Yellow means <mg/l .I also lost two more puffers this morning.I have two left and one is turning dark.Thanks for your help.

:cry: My baby with the red eye has died.He was very very dark with a white belly.The water temp is 80.The ammonia is 0.The nitrate is yellow.The ph is 8.The salt measure is 1.004.I am going to add a little more salt to slowly raise the level up.I have one baby left.He is 1 inch.The other 2 are a tad...

Hello,this is my first post so please bare with me if i repeat some questions.My mom and I were at walmart amost 2 weeks ago.They had 18 small gsp in their tiny FW tank.We had no set up for them.Just an empty 55 gal.So we ran home and threw up a tank in 20 minutes.She had puffers before but it was s...