The Puffer Forum

I have had my 3" porc puffer for about a month now and in the last week he has bitten chunks out of my copperbanded butterfly and my clown. They are both dead now. Puffer is all that is left in the tank. Any suggestions on what fish I can add that he wont eat?

ok I will keep trying...the only thing is when I do not feed him live he starts chasing around my other fish..especially my copperband butterfly

I feel like I need something that will eat the leftover food on the bottom of my tank...it is too small for me to get it all out. Any suggestions on what kind of fish or scavenger I can add to my tank for this purpose? So far I have: porcupine puffer...3" copperbanded butterfly....3" Perc ...

Well....its been a week and he still will not eat any frozen food. I have tried live small guppies and he immediatly gulps them down. I have been told it is not good to feed them live guppies but that is all he will eat. How can I get him to eat frozen? I have tried everything I can get from the lfs...

Porcupine Puffer: Gizmo!

well...I have since found out I acclimated him wrong....but following the instructions of my lfs...I let his bag float in my tank for 30min and then added 1/2cup of tank water to his bag every 10min until bag was full, then netted him out of bag and released him in my tank. He has several places to ...

I got home with my new porcupine puffer on Tuesday night so he has been in the new tank for 2 days. The first day he stayed floating in the back corner of my tank but today he stays laying on the bottom kinda hidden under a rock. He hasn't eaten at all. He never puffed up until today when I tried to...