The Puffer Forum

My F-8 lives happily with 3 bumblebee gobis, 3 mollies and a knight gobi, no problems, feed together aswell,
But he is a softy

Dunno bout GSP, but my two F8's absolutely love it when I drop in a previously frozen shell-on prawn, I dangle this on a piece of cotton and leave in for about 5 to 10 minutes, I break the shell aswell to make it easy for them, they go mad for it so don't do it too often, bout once a week or so as s...

I'm not too far from you (Staffs), and regularly shop at maidenhead aquatics Newport (Shrops) for bits n bobs,,less than an hour from you. They recently had a shipment of small GSP, all looked ok but were in freshwater, my 2 F8's came from there and fins crossed no problems. About a month ago they h...

I had one of my F8s teeth/beak done at a local vets who specializes in aquatic/ fish issues, he's also a good friend. He added something to the bag and within seconds he was out for the count, this was a powder but not sure what, he came round fine when placed in the recovery bag. IF YOU ARE IN THE ...

My 2 F8's pace at mealtimes in anticipation or for a while after a water change, I only started adding the salt 2 weeks ago, so bringing up slowly. I put it down to the water levels, but neither pace at night ,when the light is off they just drift about near the bottom, till morning when the light g...

Well, we got our 2 f8 puffers about 6 weeks ago, as expected sold as freshwater, (now slowly going into brackish). Not long after getting them settled, I noticed, one of them (Keith) had quite long teeth, or rather beak. I tried to resolve this by feeding small snails, but it was obvious he was havi...

We have 2 F8's, so different in charachter , Gordon is a bit shy, but Keith is very nosy and begs as often as he can !