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I was reading thru the questions and noted one lady has a snail tank and was wondering how to go about setting one up. My GSP gets frozen bloodworms and mysis shrimp. Snails would be great if I can keep them on hand!! How to's???

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I appreciate your help and information, part of my confusion is that the kit I just purchased has no Nitrate measurer in it. Can I get one of these seperatly?? I understand I can't put Ammonia in it now, but is there something I can/should be doing???

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mrm

I see where you got nitrites of 2 no no the cards for the tests are labeled " Nitrite NO. 2 and Nitrite NO. 3" two different tubes for nitrites. but they both are testing at zero. which is what I was told it should be. YOUR RIGHT... both shops apparently know little to nothing about puffer...

Dear Jeni, If nitite of 2 is toxic but 0 is too low??? This kit doesn't have a nitrate check. It has nitrite no2 and no3. I did read the article prior to writing last post. A little confusing on what I can do now that fish is there. I have stress coat, and another person posted I might be able to us...

Okay!! As soon as I read your posts I chased down the SAE and they are in a floater tub right now and will get them out tomorrow. Pudge is now dark all over. I followed the instructions from LFS on cycling. I ran it w/ some of their established gravel for a month. They checked the water and said I c...

Okay, he's swimming and so I can see the front 1/2 of belly is white and the back 1/2 is blackish. I'm going to try to feed him and see if he is more interested.

mr

ok, I'm new and ignorant. I search Ceylon images and.. there were diff pics but it looked like GSP were the same as.... Is that true or am I in desperate need of education??

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Mary-Rhea

My LFS guy was just telling me yesterday that I should be slowly changing my brachish to marine for my puffer. I know that is their life in the wild but... would a very brachish (is there such a thing?) keep them healthy and happy??? He told me I should as for 1 gal salt and 4 gal fresh when I buy m...

pretty sure. I haven't checked him this morning. getting ready to do than now. hoping for a good report. Just took a look, on bottom but Ijust turned the light on so that isn't a surprise. from what I can see his belly is not a dark, just gray on the sides (I think -- have to swim to know for sure) ...

he has lots of plants and a rock grouping that he can get under. He's never been afraid when the light was on before. I feed w/ a syringe and he comes up and pecks at it until I squirt a few bloodworms out. He has always been outgoing.

Mary-Rhea

Sorry, Pufferpunk, I posted a "new topic" prior to reading your advice to post here. 40 gal tank cycled 4 wks then added starter fish and gravel (from cycled tank) and 2 wks later did water check and added puffer. have a bio wheel filter for 40 to 60 gal. rechecked h2o - parameters still g...

I don't know why my post was removed but my puffer is sick again. Please don't remove this. I reported after a water change he was back to normal within an hour. that night last night, he was mostly black belly again, staying mostly on the bottom w/ tail curled, very little interest in the blood wor...

Dear Pufferpunk,
This morning, Pudge, had a black tummy and all that, then he got better, and that was when I posted this, but now he is back to black tummy and everything, so please don't delete! I really need some advice on him.

Mary-Rhea

My original post re: black tummied gsp has not even made it to the forum and the water change as done it!!! :D It's been about an hour/less and hiss tummy is almost completely white and he is up and downin at the glass!!!!!!!! I am so relieved!! :lol: I definitely need a water testing kit and will g...

I am brand spankin' new to the puffer world :shock: (I have to learn quickly as I will have a puffer coming to live w/ us in about a week). My dtr and I were reading posts and saw a bunch of initials, :? I think they were identifying each type of puffer. Can you help us w/ that???? :D SAP was one of...