The Puffer Forum

Thanks! I am medicating it, I gave away the pleco to a good home, and I'm on my way to buying a new tank (and trying to get my friend to give me his 40 gallon). I have wondered why he never seems to grow...but hopefully the new tank will change that. Since puffers are so sensitive to medication, are...

Hmmm...I will go get those other test kits. Why does the puffer need so much room if he's so small (he's about an inch long, maybe)? If the algae eater can live there, does that mean that I don't have enough salt in my tank? Again, thank you for your response! I like my puffer very much and don't wa...

I added the tankmate about three months ago (a common plec) . I have a 5 gallon tank. I checked the levels using one of those kits that come with many different strips and everything seemed okay...That's what I've been using for a quite a while. The pH level was a little high and that was about it. ...

I have a regular green spotted puffer in a brackish water tank. He is almost a year old. He has been living with a algae sucker fish for a couple of months. Normally, his poop is brownish. He usually eats only bloodworms and occasionally (although not recently) I feed him shrimp. His poop today came...