The Puffer Forum

I got a dwarf puffer from work on saturday. He started eating straight away, which is good :) Ive still got the community fish in there atm but they will be taken out on Monday, as they are rather fact cardinals etc and he may have trouble eating... Ill be getting two more dwarves on monday too. I h...

I have atm a dwarf puffer called Gizmo...he's kinda shy and i think he's similar to Gizmo off the gremlins
Ill be getting two more on monday aswell as a hopeful pair of C.Irrubesco
Ive had Fig 8s before, one i called Patch as he had cloudy eye when i got him..cant remember the GSp name...

Thanks for that
Im leaning toward the red eyes...ill order them from my work next weekend
I know that are usually aggressive but has anyone had any luck with tank mates? Just that i have a lovely L number plec that id hate to get rid of and 3 large cories

hi there, I currently have a planted FW tank. The pH is 6.5, and i use RO water, which is beeter for the fish as tapwater round here is crap! I have had experience with puffers, so i know about their behaviour, requirements etc. Ive kept figure 8s, GSPs and dwarves. I have a 15 gallon US tank, cycle...

i didnt realise that the females in the cave with him too

I have had a male Knight Goby in my brackish tank for 3 months or so now. About a month ago, i got two females for him. After rescaping the tank, ive ditched the ocean rock and added loadsa slate, as i like to be able to design caves etc. One DIY thing i did was to buy a t-piece like thing for the p...

Some fish shops keep their true brackish puffers, like the Green Spotted, in freshwater. Being such a large fish, they need a higher salinity; so if the water its in doesnt contain any, thats not too good for him. Where i work, we got some in at around 4 inches and we didnt keep them in brackish. No...

Yeah, acclimatised him for like an hour as always

Ive raised it to 1.004 now

Hey
Just got a GSP for my tank. At the mo, im adjusting the salinity by 1.002 each week, aiming for aroun 1.008 (until my puffer gets bigger). At the store, it was in .005. Will it be okay for him to go from .005 to .002?

God its sooo hard! Ill have to try and get a pic next time.

Thanks for the help!
If i dotn find out what type it is, how will i know what SG to take it to?

Hmmm worked for me...

Second pic http://uk.images.search.yahoo.com/searc ... br_bt&b=21

heres a similar pic of one tht looked ill/bullied (very dark in colour)

http://www.whozoo.org/fish/teleosts/Tet ... 000c70.JPG

Definetly not a ceylon! Its not in the pufferpedia, already checked. Is there any links to any Green Puffer info?

My LFS hve some lovely 4" puffers in. hey say theyre Green Puffers (tetradon schoutendi) and i agree looking at pictures in their 'holy grail of fish' book. I have kept brackish puffers before and currently have a Figure 8. Im thinking about shutting down my FW community tank for one of these b...