The Puffer Forum

ohhh ok, thanks for the advice. i'm happy as long as the plants won't die. i wanted to get java fern, but they always look terrible at the stores. and i don't have driftwood to tie the plants to. wouldn't it rot?

will raising the pH be a bad idea for growing plants? my regular tap water is about 7.4.

okay, i had one of these stupid moments. i have a 28 gallon brackish tank at 1.002, and i want to get real plants for it. i set up a 10gallon tank to quarantine plants, and i couldn't find the right gravel at the local petstore. i bought crushed coral because i read somewhere that it was good for th...

i used that medication on my puffers by putting 1/8 of the tablet and letting it soak in food for an hour, and treating for 7 days. i could see worms coming out, but the puffers eventually died. maybe i wasn't medicating properly, or maybe they died because they were weak in the first place.

thanks for ur help. i'll need to be more careful if i medicate my new ones. they have been treated before, so i'll let them settle for a while and see how they do. uh i can see their teeth too...they're not like fangs, but more like rabbit teeth. so, i'm worried about having to trim them now.

Sorry for your loss.

if the rocks are stacked high up, maybe you could put a plant on top of the rocks? i have a moss ball and i'm thinking of putting it on top of my rock cave thing.

I am very new to fish keeping so I apologize in advance. I have read before that fish can die from conditions in the store up to a month after you buy them. I am sorry that you lost your fish(it makes me very depressed when I lose a fish too especially a puffer)... Any help is appreciated. :) I gue...

What are the symptoms for IP? Is it listlessness, worms coming out, thin body, and lose of appetite? I would think that if that happens, then it would be pretty serious...what are the early symptoms?

Water changes are always your first step if anything seems wrong. My biggest worry is that your test kits aren't reading correctly.. you should have some nitrates at the very least. Oh another question, what kind of water changes were you doing all this time? Add any products to the tank such as st...

flamesofifreet wrote:Could have been they were just unhealthy to begin with. What size tank was it?

The tank at the store looked about 8 gallons, and there were about 5-7 puffers. My tank is 28 gallons.

One thing to keep in mind with almost all puffer species.. they are wild caught... Also, if they had a high parasite load, feeding them the IP medication could have caused a big die off which poisoned their bodies.. that's why usually a half dose is recommended if you suspect a bad IP problem. So i...

the tank has been running for about 2 months now. fishless cycling with fish food took me a month (so i will use plain ammonia the next time i have to set up a new tank!), and i have had the fish for about 3 weeks.

about a few weeks ago i bought 2 one inch figure 8 puffers from a store. one f8 died after the first week, and now this one died too. i would like to ask what the possible reasons for death is. i am going to describe my situation... on the first week, the puffers were curious and always watched us t...

if it's a power filter, u have to keep adding water into the filter box with a cup to get it to work (i have had that problem too, and i thought it wasn't working). sorry for ur loss.