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thanks for the replies, yes it looks something like a cyst and he is eating fine so i think we will keep an eye on it for now, i think we will do an extra water change midweek as well as weekend for a while and see what happens
thanks again

Mac my Lineatus has developed a large spot at the base of one of his fins, it looks like a zit we might get, he is still acting fine and is still eating the param's are all fine amm 0 Nit 0 Nitrate 10 initially it was a tiny white spot when we got him 4 months ago, but it has got much larger in the ...

my husband keeps cichlids. it's pronounced sicklids!!

hi, welcome to the site! and congrats on your new puffer. I'm pretty new to puffers as well. What i have gleamed from this bottomless font of knowledge that is the puffer forum is that your puffer may be a bit stressed out due to the move. or maybe he doesn't have enough plant cover to hide in? like...

here he is the little fella!!!!

don't think he had parasites decicded not to treat yet, fed him up on live brine shrimp and now he is fine already getting bigger
but i now wished we had got more than one he's so cool

ok, just looked on a map. maybe just a little out of your way!!

i saw 3 or 4 healthy (although with nipped fins) GSP's just last saturday in a lfs near milton keynes. I don't know how close that is to you, my geography is terrible!! They were even in a brackish tank and marked as 'unsociable fish, not to be put in a community tank' Quite a pleasant surprise, a L...

where about in england are you? I'm in bedfordshire and they are available here.

just got a dwarf puffer yesterday!! he(?) is on his own in a 27litre tank. He has eaten already, some daphnia yesterday evening and a couple of bloodworm today but i'm slightly worried that his stomach looks a little sunken. i guess i will watch him over the next 24 hrs and see. maybe have to treat ...

was watching my husband fiddling with my new 27litre tank for dwarf puffers and forgot i was topping up mac's tank!! Until i heard the water cascade over the top of the tank!!AArg!! never mind my husband says your not a proper fish keeper if you haven't flooded the house at least once!! So that said...

hi, i'm fairly new at this whole puffer thing. i bought a fahaka puffer from my lfs to go in my 3ft tank. obviously realised major upgrade needed. so there is gonna be a 3ft tank going spare in my house. saw some dwarf puffers in a local store and think they're real cute. how many can i have in a 3f...

my fahaka doesn't like my husband anywhere near his tank either, maybe it's a gender thing? Mac cost around £30 and he was 4 inches, so i bet yours would probably be worth 45-50? at a guess. It's a shame you have to get rid of him they're great puffers

how long did it take him to go from 6 to 8-9 inches? do they really grow an inch a month for the first year? i suppose it depends on how much they eat.

hi, got mac from chiltern aquatics in bedfordshire. i'm friends with the guy in charge of the fish and was actually waiting for some other puffers to come in when i saw him in a bottom corner tank burried in the sand. he was around £30 and was 3 1/2 to 4 inches. i'm surprised at how much he changes ...