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by jta7
Sun Aug 28, 2005 5:45 pm
Forum: Brackish Puffers
Topic: F8 Puffer not growing
Replies: 8
Views: 1060

If I were you, I would trade them back into the LFS and get something more appropriate for a tank that size. If you wanted to stay brackish, you could go with some bumble bee gobies. Or if you wanted to continue with puffers, that tank would work well for a pair or trio of dwarf puffers. Well I lov...
by jta7
Sat Aug 27, 2005 6:52 pm
Forum: Brackish Puffers
Topic: F8 Puffer not growing
Replies: 8
Views: 1060

The tank size is too small for the fish - there is the answer. You have done well to keep them alive and healthy in such cramped quarters. That is ~ 6 3/4 US gallons, insufficient for one F-8. You need about four times the volume. b4 i had many other fishes in that tank, then one by one, they fell ...
by jta7
Sat Aug 27, 2005 5:42 pm
Forum: Brackish Puffers
Topic: F8 Puffer not growing
Replies: 8
Views: 1060

the big puffer in about 2.5 inch and the smaller one is 2.0 inches

The tank is 23.3in length 7in depth 9.5in height
by jta7
Sat Aug 27, 2005 5:21 pm
Forum: Brackish Puffers
Topic: F8 Puffer not growing
Replies: 8
Views: 1060

how would I Measure them the f8?
by jta7
Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:48 pm
Forum: Brackish Puffers
Topic: F8 Puffer not growing
Replies: 8
Views: 1060

F8 Puffer not growing

Hello,

I have been keeping 2 F8 puffer in my aquarium for about 1 year and they both look like they havent grown a bit. One is bigger than the other but thats how they look like when I got them. Any ideas on making them bigger? Feed them more often?

Thanks