The Puffer Forum

I did a 50% water change the night after the worm disappeared, it's a hospital tank so there's very little substrate, I didn't see anything resembling the worm when I vacuumed. I didn't think about the worms being husky but I noticed he has some trouble getting them down. The worm wasn't flat like a...

I just bought a new GSP from a local fish store. He was in bad shape, sunken black belly, in freshwater probably full of parasites, but I couldn't resist him jumping at the glass despite all his problems. As soon as I got him home I put him some swine parasite medicine and a day later this huge worm...

I agree with the bacterial bloom. I have a coil denitrator I made myself and whenever I add some sugar water to feed it, the water gets really cloudy with the bacteria bloom. It clears up in about 3 days. Even though it's cloudy the denitrator keeps it at 0 nitrates.

They had these at a local pet shop. I recommend removing the claws before feeding them. Crayfish have a nasty pinch and I wasn't really smart putting it in there with pincers. Ghost shrimp are probably better suited for your puffer.

Yeah, if your looking for pure agression, I've heard Fahaka's are the worst of the worst, so I've been told.

I've never heard of any problems with serving Saltwater fish some freshwater live food. If the freshwater live food had any parasites they wouldn't survive in saltwater.

The other Fish is an Archer Fish.

He's a little over 3 inches.

Here's some more video of my GSP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xO96wO5gv0 I usually feed him snails, but all my snails suddenly died. I was worried about his teeth so I bought him a couple of crayfish. The archer that is with him will shoot crickets from the mangrove plants. Been trying to get fo...

The puffer above got spooked one night and jumped out of the tank on to my desk. Luckily my wife saw the whole thing and I got him back into the water. I now cover the top of the aquarium on his side at night. For some reason if you enter the room with the light off, he freaks out and tries to get o...

He's a little over 3 inches including tail. He was in bad shape when I first got him from a wal-mart, nipped fins, dark coloration and all. I've had him for a year and he's grown maybe a 1/2 inch.

I have an Archer that lives with a very aggressive GSP and they do fine, never any nipping. In fact they are nearly inseparable. The Archer follows the GSP everywhere he goes. I expect that has to do more with the Archer not wanting the GSP to take his food more than anything else. But there is no g...

This ones a real treat, his body comes totally out of the water when I hold food for him. He's nipped me a couple of times changing his water. I got him at a wal-mart a year ago and he was in horrible shape, sunken belly, his top fin nipped down to a nub and he was almost totally black in color. I u...

I posted some video of my GSP eating shrimp from my hand, here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFsuMa5R0ko

Does anyone think baby Malaysian Snails would be OK to feed a GSP? I have some Ramshorn Snails, but they don't appear to reproduce any snails small enough for my 1 inch GSP to feed on. On the other hand, I have several baby MS in a feeder tank. I just want to know if the Malaysian Snail's young migh...