The Puffer Forum

i live about an hour away from madison if you ever try again and want to get rid of the bullies i would be more than happy to take them off of your hands sorry about your loss

i have a south american in a 15 gallon, with an amazon swordtail (plant) and another freshwater plant anybody have any suggestions on other good plants for this tank?

i went to my lfs last night to get some ghost shrimp, and while i was looking around i saw something called a white spotted puffer in a tank with some gsps and figure eights, it had some stripes and lots of spots all white with a sort of elongated body anyone know what this guy is?

i dont know i just thought that in my tank with all the broken lines of sight and hiding places the puffer and monos might work well together considering they are both brackish and i do have more than adequate filtering for the 55 gallon tank, if the monos arent going to work with the puffer in this...

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theyre tiny and am getting a bigger tank for the 3 of them as soon as they get larger, theyre less than an inch now
would that be ok, if not ill bring them back

the mollies were picking on him and he couldnt take the stress, plus my hydrometer was busted and the salt wasnt as high as i thought it was it turned out to only be at 1.002 when it said it was at 1.008 so in a combination of all of that the little guy didnt make it, i came home one day and he was ...

nitrites and ammonia are 0 nitrate is between 5 and 10 ppm pH is just above 8 sg is 1.006 and rising by .002 every week as not to kill the bacteria,there are currently 4 mollies and the gsp who is about an inch if that, he has eaten very sparingly since i got him about a month ago, but just in the b...

yea i did the depuffing thing and he seemed to be alright for a while but then i noticed that he had a bulge in his stomach and the next morning he was dead, i was very saddened especially after all the fish i got rid of to satisfy him, and another thing the smaller one seems perfectly healthy but h...

ok came home today and my gsp was sitting at the bottom of my tank all puffed up and has been that way since i got home, what do i need to do about it??????

how do i go about a salt bath?

i am still raising the salinity and did a search for gill flukes and nothing worth while showed up really thats why im asking

55 gallon brackish tank at 1.004 brought it up slow using marine salt 2 gsps 1 about an inch 1 a little over, 2 mollies, a large pleco, some neons and ghost shrimp 5? recently the larer of the two puffers has limited movement and one gill is shut while the other goes very fast, there are also instan...

convict and other fish besides pleco are gone but bigger one only uses one gill other is clamped can someone help???????????

no no im sorry if i offended you i really appreciate all of your help i just gotta get my ducks in a row
sorry