The Puffer Forum

I can't get over all of the conflicting information on the internet about Figure 8 Puffers. Me and my wife decided finally to purchase 4 F8 puffers from our LFS and they seem to be happy and healthy readily taking frozen bloodworms. They are only about .5 inch long at the moment are in full fresh wa...

thanks mike, don't have any special lighting or CO2 so I may try some low light stuff and see what happens. I really like amazon swords but not sure if they can make it in just over 1wpg. I have tried it before and while they grew and sent runners they faded away. Some people said they need substrat...

Tank is cycling now. I used some old tank water and some mulm from an established filter to help it along. I have actually kept bb gobies in freshwater tanks and really enjoyed them, after they finally kicked it I found out they were brackish (they did quite well in straight FW). Anyways, I am going...

Cool. I will see if my LFS can order F8's if not then I will get them mail order. I don't mind adjusting parameters to meet the needs of the fish, I just want to make sure there will be no surprises long term. Thanks again.

Sorry, I was under the impression it would be large enough for a while. It seems the F8's don't reach the same size, would that be more suitable? I don't think we want dwarfs. I will read up on some more but thanks for any suggestions.

Hello folks, this will be my first post here. I am setting up a 29g tank for my wife, she has wanted puffers forever and I think wwe decided to get a pair of GSPs (they're common around here). Anyways, I know that you need a pH buffering substrate like crushed coral but would a gravel/oyster shell b...