The Puffer Forum

I just bought a hydro-sponge filter for tank and am thrilled with the results. The water looks fantastic . I'm curious if anyone else uses these or if they have any information about care/ possible drawbacks/ advantages. Thanks! P.S. I have a 20 gallon, brackish water tank P.P.S. the big sponge is s...

amongst the dying and diseased GSPs in the Walmart tank, I spotted a tiny, almost translucent fish with big dark eyes. I asked the attendant if he knew what it was and of course he had no clue...he speculated it could be a guppy. I thought with the big eyes it might be a gsp fry and almost bought bu...

I have a large conch shell I'd like to put in my tank (it's on its way to brackish). Any thoughts on how this will effect the water. I've heard varying things about the pH etc. Also, do I need to boil or soak it first?

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I just checked in on him and noticed that his left gill does not seem to be functioning AT ALL so perhaps the right one is compensating?????? quick! am off to scan the website but any ideas would be great! PS my filter is starting to smell...I changed the disposable one but according to the directio...

first, thanks for all the great advice suggests and the excellent website. My GSP was struggling the first week and the responses I got helped tremendously (thanks in particular to Nick) It's been a couple weeks, things were going well, gsp was improving, etc. Anyway, today I noticed he isn't eating...

thanks for the replies... I could not find Biospira so out of deperation bought the stuff the guy at the LFS said worked (Stability by Seachem) May be a waste but felt I had to something Did a 30% change in the morning, added some saline water and the stability Came home and he was curled up in a ba...

Friday- purchased GSP from a freshwater tank set up freshwater tank- did not cycle (I'm not even sure what this is) puff looked like he had fungus... Spent the weekend reading and researching...he had the little yellow dots and some white cotton on his skin... I added some aquarium salt- 1TBS he see...