The Puffer Forum

she is adorable

mine ate every other day for a few weeks after rescue, then nothing for a whole week, i became really worried, but he happy ate on the 8 th day, had us all worried. now he eats every other day and sometimes skips two days, hope that helps you stress less , i have put lots of small snails in the tank...

she is a sweetie. lovely colours , i know what you mean when you say your in love already xxxxxxxx mine rules this house , even has his own tray in the freezer ha ha

i am glad you bought him, they should be ashamed and how do they still have a license to carry on selling , i truly hope you get him up to normal size, its so awful to see, keep us posted on progress xxxxxxxx

jetpilot you dont always get the tone in a text, you had us going there for a moment

i am not an expert so take other advice first, but my puffer i rescued from the fish shop was in a tiny tank and had and still has huge big bush baby eyes, over the last few months we built him up as he was so underweight and skinny when we got him home, was all going well then suddlenly would not e...

sorry i meant my puffer was messy and thought the shrimp would kinda eat some of the bits that i miss when i hoover up, havnt tried it as i think he will eat them,,, might try keep you updated

was thinking the same about ghost shrimps as my is messy eater, let me know how you get on,

glad you never fed the crab, he is a lovely looking puffer, never seen a good photo of one puffing , mine never does that, just bought a new tank for Spike as was badly advised by LFS... update soon

The Thames not the cleanest river, be careful. Crab shouldnt be too big, have you read Manitus' account of Clooney nearly suffocating on a crab claw? He had to up the oxygen into the tank pretty fast .....