The Puffer Forum

Here's where I'm getting my info. http://badmanstropicalfish.com/articles/article28.com

No way to know for sure. Even a structural engineer couldn't answer that without taking the floor apart to do tests. I have my 75g in my bedroom on an upper floor and so far so good...

I kept a lawnmower blenny with two GSP's and they paid absolutely no attention to him. I took him out, (not enough algae to eat) and am going to be trying a snowflake moray with my puffs next.

That sucks too. Salt water makes it even worse. My whole bedroom smelled like the ocean for awhile, it's gone now though.

Kind of a dubious honor.

Shop-Vac was essential in clean-up! I had a friend come over with his and I used mine so we cleaned it pretty well. Still took days for the carpet to completely dry out. I then shampooed it and now it's fine. Never had a Wrasse in my intake but I have found clownfish in my overflow, and a banggai......

About a month ago I was doing some work in my bedroom where my puffer tank is located. I had some furniture moved and left the room for a minute. I then heard a crash and yelling, my one year old daughter had pulled a bed frame I had propped against the wall and smashed my 55g GSP tank. :cry: Fortun...

Rigth now, my GSP's are living with a sailfin blenny (lawnmower blenny). The blenny cleans up after the puffers and they seem to pay no attention to the blenny at all. I'm going to add a dwarf golden moray... when I get the funds

I can't believe that website. SEA KITTENS? PETA is #$%^&#$% crazy!

You could just slowly acclimate the puffer to full salt so you don't kill everything on your rock. I saw Nick post that he took GSP's to full salt in I think an hour. No guarantee he won't eat/nibble everything else in the tank. Snails will definitely be eaten as well as shrimp. Could you trade in y...

Just an update, I have a 108W T5 on my puffer tank, one bulb actinic, one bulb 10000K. There are no corals in the tank, just some LR and a couple of chubby GSP's. Btw, can I put a lawnmower blennie in with my GSP's? Once the algae is gone I could move him to my reef tank if there were aggression iss...

Right now phosphate and nitrate read 0. I'm suspicious, the article Myaj posted said that the algae could lock up these nutrients and give a false 0. So what should I do, the algae is on my live rock, should I pull the rock out and scrub it, do a big WC and wait and see? Should I leave the lights of...

My substrate is the gravel I added when the tank was FW/low end brackish. I'll test phosphates and nitrates. My light cycle is 9:30AM to 8:00PM. I just wonder if I'm feeding too often. I still feed every day and my puffers are now 3" and 3.5". I'm feeding mysis, bloodworms, snails and the ...

What size was it when you moved it into full marine? --Pillow 2.5", Blanket 3" Did the fish survive? --Yes, both did fine. How long was it/is it in full marine? --Been at 1.017 for 5 months, 1.024 for 1 month How large did it grow, and how fast? --They have each grown a 1/2" Did you n...

My puffers have been at full marine (1.024) for a month now. I'm skimming, have live rock and use RO water and I seem to be infested with hair algae. What can I do to try and get rid of this algae? Will it die back after the tank has been at this SG for a little while?