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Our GSP''s name is Kermit (after the frog)!

Hilly wrote:I've got ocean rock in my brackish tank, it was a lovely white when i first got it, now its covered in brown algae, I take it out every now and then and get the hosepipe out on it.

Thanks Hilly... that's makes me feel even better about mine being green & yellow and colorful!

Thanks Peregrine.

Ummm... this IS the http://www.thepufferforum.com forum. :) Yeah, that's not really what I typed... the forum changed it. Perhaps I wasn't very clear about what I meant... in a SW tank, there's "good" algae/stuff that cleans the tank, etc. What does it look like? I've never had a SW tank,...

Anyone know what happened to the Puffer Resources forum?

OK, here's my question: Since I'm new to salt/brackish tanks, what does good algae look like vs. bad algae? I have a brackish tank with some rocks (couple months old) and here's what they look like:

Help! One of my F8s has been laying on the bottom of the tank for a while now... not moving, flipping over, looking sickly. I originally thought it was from high nitrite levels, but I'm now realizing that those would not be the symptoms. I've spent all day trying to get the nitrites under control wi...

Nick wrote:I'd be VERY carefull that they are both the same type... my petco sometimes calls dwarf puffers, figure 8's and GSP's "leopard puffers."

As a side note, my Petco people are surprisingly knowledgeable.. they actually knew that their F8s should be kept in BW (though they keep them in FW).

I bought a water test kit yesterday and tested my pH, GH, and KH, but I couldn't get the KH test to work (I forget the name of the kit, but it's a fresh water kit from a company called Red Sea from Israel). The water never really changed color, except being a very very light orange (the color of the...

Those sound like good varied diets... do you keep live stuff around, or do you purchase them every time? That probably sounds like a dumb question, but I've been trying to wrap my head around the logistics of feeding (going to be getting a couple F8s soon). The only predator fish we've ever had was ...