The Puffer Forum

Ya know .. I was getting ready to feed him when he was doing it.

Maybe he was just anxious to eat (my stand in didn't feed him very well while I was gone .. not well at all) .. so maybe that was it .

So, do ya think it's like some people who do it? But people usually do it in their sleep .. and the puf isn't asleep.

I just found it very odd. He's not doing it now. Weirdo lol.

Is it normal for a puffer to grit it's teeth?

I left for 5 days and came back and my puffer has started to do this. Wasn't doing it before. I can hear it from 5ft away (hes on my back desk).

He can eat fine (BW and snails)..

Anyone?

wow .. that is one big tummy

I named my new little guy/gal (I really am not sure lol) Dai, which is Central Asian for "vicious". I normally name all my fish inthe same language as where they came from.

All my bettas are named in Thai

I'd have to say I'm not a fan of the idea of feeding feeder fish, or babies, to puffers. It's just not part of their natural diet AFAIK. They're molluscivores as Nick says, not piscivores. You think that if a baby fish swims by in the wild that they aren't gonna chase it down and eat it? Aren't mos...

Jeeze I put a ghost shrimp in with mine today and it took him less than 5 minutes to get a bead on it. I found a baby guppy in my community tank this morning (when I say baby, it was probably 1/4" long) and took it to work. Took That little bugger less than a minute for him to suck it down like...

Thanks :) .. I finally decided to go back to school so that someday I can put these skills to use. Hopefully it eventually pays off lol. I'm almost certain you still have to secure the ones with quickrete somehow as well, they are just heavier sitting in your tanks. Styrofoam is made to float (look ...

Thank you :) and I certainly can. Right now all I have pics in a tank are caves. The other background I made I made for someone else and I didn't put it in a tank and take pics before I shipped it off (didn't have a functioning digi cam at the time, I have this great ability to drop them while the l...

I know this is an old thread, but I'm in the middle of making another foam background for someone and thought I'd throw this out for you (since I saw it). Instead of using regular Styrofoam from the craft isle, walk a few isles over to the floral isle. Grab some floral foam. It's very smooth and alm...

Yea, when I had the other GSP I bought some marine salt from the Fish Shop close to me.

Thanks guys .. when I do his tank cleaning tomorrow I'll try the pimafix.

Nick wrote:That tail regrowth looks quite normal, btw, my Jillybean's tail looked like that as it regenerated, and she now has a nice, bright, full colored fan.

ah, so they are kinda like bettas then. I've only had bettas with chomped on fins before .. none of my other fish bother fins lol.

thanks I have a bottle of Pimafix (anti-fungal for fresh & saltwater) .. is this pretty much the same as primafix? I haven't had any sick fish that some aquarium salt wouldn't cure in so long .. I threw most of my meds out because they were so old (I dunno if they expire, but they were 2+ yrs ol...

Yea, actually I have a 33 gal acrylic tank that I made for my male bettas a couple years ago. I pulled the partitions out (I had it made into separate 3.5 gal stalls for each betta .. the back section was about 5 gal worth I guess .. even though all of it compiled 33 gal total). I lost all the fish ...

Hi, my name is Jennie and I'm rather new to puffers. I have a dwarf puffer at home and I've had a GSP before as well. Unfortunately the other GSP I had (about a year ago, maybe longer) died due to my cleaning service not telling the new person to not spray in my office (I lost a bunch of fish during...