The Puffer Forum

Well - I cannot describe these areas - but if you saw them in person, you could easily see that they weren't 'healed scars' We put her back in the 55 gallon tank on the 26th of June and at first she seemed no better, but no worse. We did notice that sometimes the areas looked a little worse and some...

My only question about bite marks .... We had the puffer out of the tank for 20 days, no other fish in the hospital tank, if they were bite marks, why wouldn't they appeared to have healed? These spots looked much the same on the 26th as they did on the 6th. I will do some research on the bacterial ...

Oh yeah - How long before a GSP is 'full grown' ??? Also - the sick one is about the size of a golf ball and we've had it since September 05 - my other one is the size of a racketball ball, or handball and we got is in December 05 They both started out about the same size - but the one that is large...

Ok - you have convinced me on the water changes. Of course, the sick one was getting 100% water changes every other day, and she didn't get better .... so any suggestions on what is going on w/ her? http://tinypics.us/out.php/i6917_MrsPuff1.jpg http://tinypics.us/out.php/i6919_MrsPuff2.jpg I tried t...

First of all - thanks for the reply Regarding the Pleco, I have heard that Plecos are very robust and can stand a somewhat brackish enviroment - since he has been in there, he has doubled in size and seems to be doing very well. He's been in the tank since November 12th 2006. When we first got this ...

I have a problem - I have a 55 gallon tank that has 2 Green spotted Puffers and one Placo in it. We had a Figure-8 puffer that recently died and apparently from the same thing. Water parameters as of 6/28/2007 Ph - 7.0 Ammonia - 0 to .25 ppm Nitrate - 0 to 5 ppm Nitrite - 2 to 5 ppm (a little on the...