The Puffer Forum

A timely reminder for me, also, with those hoses.

I'm usually the one who kills heaters by leaving then switched on when the level drops. Idiot!

Think I will transfer to a 240l 48 by 15 by 21 inch tank when I've moved at got the puff stable. I have one empty but not the sort of thing you can throw together during a house move. BTW the readings in the current tank are ammonia undetectable, same as nitrite and nitrate is about 5ppm. pH is 8.3....

Maybe a 3'' animal...

It's going up for bloodworm as a bribe for rubbish photo!

Have not yet thought of a decent name...

Trying to upload a rubbish phone pic of animal. If I need to cut the file size, I'll do it next week...

Oh, I'll try to contact some people who can convert a beer chiller the size of a washing machine. They are seahorse experts so the chiller may be used to cool a pair of foot high pot bellied sea horses in tandem. I'll post a pic of the ocellatus tm when there is light in the garage. Did post on this...

This puffer has another quirk in that it never buries itself but does lurk on the bottom sand if startled. The 50:50 honey/coral sand is two inches deep and does not seem packed when I stir it at water change.

It must be a very tough one off, this animal!

Hi Corvus et al, I've had it for a bit over two years but not sure how long the previous owners had it. I bought it privately. They did say they had kept it in quite small tanks 60l then temporarily smaller. I'm moving soon so will have to invest in a chiller methinks. I've rehomed most of my fish b...

The low salinity was just historical, the level it was in at previous owners. Can also get more oxygen in I suppose. Have not measured mine recently but it was saturated for the salinity of the time...

Hi there and hi to mushroom :-) He or she is a roughly thirty inch cube with a deep sand bed - a mix of honey and coral sand. There are rocks and lots of plastic plants. Ambient light which seems to suit. Does not pace that i can see but a little shy. Tank is in a northern uk garage so not much dist...

Sorry for spelling. Using an iphone!

Unbelievably, mine is s till here after a couple of years. He or she is in a 150l at 1.012 sg at a temp of between 10 and 20 C depending on season. Filtration is a large intetnal box, a large cannister external, a powerhead with venturi, two protien skimmers for aeration only and a UV. Diet is as va...

I'm having algae problems too! I'm getting 'blanket weed' type stringy algae in my trop pond - that's because it's in a conservatory. I do a 50% change every other week and use a 1 inch bore syphon tube (corrugated pond tubing) to an outside drain. It's enough to get the stuff out to a resonable deg...

A privilege to be able to vote here. I love the 'burp'! All those puffs made me smile - I'd post one of mine if I could catch the moment. But that Diodon is in another class. The glowing sharp nosed puffer would get my second vote if there were such a thing. Yes, I am up at 3:40 am - waiting for the...

Just to clarify again: The Takifugu ocellatus might be transferred to the larger tank under the same water conditions it's in at the moment (1.010 s.g, 15C). Double the volume... but I won't try to increase the salinity just yet. No LR for now - I just wanted to ask how some of my LR may be acclimat...