The Puffer Forum

I have two GSP, they are still lil guys, maybe an inch and a half. Only had em about 2 months.

Yah my puffers prefer me to squish the snails before dropping em in. Seems they are too lazy to break the snails open themselves

The ghost shrimp live ok in brackish water?

Sorry, should have added that I was assuming light brackish ~1.005SG. The F8 and GSPs should not really be in the same tank over a long period.

I'm no expert but I will give your questions a go. 1. For keeping these three fish should I go full salt or keep it a brackish? Any specific amount I should shoot for? F8s are brackish and GSP require more salt As they get older. Ideally GSPs should be kept alone, they do not do well with tank mates...

Sorry for your loss. Same thing happened to one of my puffers, his stomach would turn dark and he would just sit there in one spot. He became less and less active every day. I think it was some sort or parasite, because my water conditions were fine.

I did a PWC last night. Both of the puffers bellies turn dark periodically, maybe they both have some sort of parasites but only 1 is sick so far. What should I get to treat parasites that will be avail in a LFS? I have to go get some more salt tonight anyway. I will likely lose the sick puffer, he ...

He always looks pretty skinny, I think because he doesn't eat much. I will raise the temp, thanks.

There was a dead F8 in the tank I got the puffs from, it's possible he has whetever sickness that dead one had.

F8 puffers. I have some bio spira in the mail right now, I got the email that it was shipped today. The tank they are in is cycled though and I tested it today, it's free of ammonia. He has been looking kindof sick since I got him, it's weird because the other in the same tank is fine. Both gills ar...

Temp is at about 77F. The puffers were just in there temporaily until the 33G was totally ammonia free. The water is brackish, 1.003SG. I feed them once per day. The sick one was eating but not much. He just takes bites out of stuff while Sammy wolfs everything down as fast as he can. Zizi doesn't l...

Just got home from work and one of my puffers is sitting motionless at bottom of the tank. I have them living a small (5.5g) QT tank temporarily until I get my 33g totally cycled. It is only the 2 puffers in there, and the water is at 1.003SG. Details: 1) Your water parameters - PH 8.0, Ammonia 0, N...

Is it possible to keep a big snail or two in with puffers? I added a big yellow snail and he seems to be loving sucking up all the algae in my tank. The F8s are quite curious and watch the snail closely but they are too small to actually hurt it (I think). The snail is about an inch and a half in di...

Thank you for the advice guys. I am still getting used to these lil guys, the color changing thing was freaking me out. Sammy is very greedy when it comes to feeding time. I have to distract him on one side of the tank so I can get some food to Zizi but he usually ends up stealing it anyway. So I ha...

Hmm, Sammy looks and is acting like normal again. :D No idea what was up there, is it normal for puffer's bellys to turn darker sometimes? Oh yeah, I got em to eat snails for the first time today, woot! They wouldn't touch em until the snails were squished though. May now that the puffs know snails ...