The Puffer Forum

Well.. he didnt last too long after i posted. after i had to move him from the intake.. he wedged himself in between the fake plants. 15 min later he was laying on the bottom. I looked closer and saw that he stopped breathing. The other GSP seems to be doing well. I still it might be ich. Right now ...

Ok.. so heres the pic. I took it with my blackberry curve. it was hard.. everytime I got close he swam away. http://s265.photobucket.com/albums/ii208/wonger123/Puffers/?action=view&current=IMG00067.jpg If you look at him/her.. there are tiny white spots. I think its ich.. poor guy. I need to tre...

So I looked closer.. in my 5g I have argonite as the substrate.. and when the black puffer lays on the substrate some of the argonite would attach to his belly. Now when I look at him.. it miiiiiight be ich. It looks like tiny spots of fuzz.. like his skin is peeling.. is this ich? How do I treat i...

Even QT needs to be large enough not to poison them with their wastes. Sounds like you're trying your best with them--I'd do daily WC in the QT. I was changing the water every other day. Is the stuff on him ich? just looks like his skin is peeling. I moved him into the 20g I have at work to see how...

That tank is way too small for 2 GSPs. How was it cycled? What test kits are you using? Even as juvies, I'd give them 15g ea & then upgrade them to a minimum of a 55g tank (larger is better). Read the GSP article in our Library. I know.. they were in a quarantine tank for a week before I add th...

So I looked closer.. in my 5g I have argonite as the substrate.. and when the black puffer lays on the substrate some of the argonite would attach to his belly. Now when I look at him.. it miiiiiight be ich. It looks like tiny spots of fuzz.. like his skin is peeling.. is this ich? How do I treat it...

Hey guys, I got 2 puffers from the LFS and one of them look super healthy.. the other one slowly turned black. The other day his whole belly was black except his belly. I just moved them out of the 5g quarantine tank, i wonder if its because of the small space. I just checked the water. ammonia - 0 ...

They are in my 5 gallon quarantine tank. Its not their permanent home.

I actually have over filtration in this tank. What if I removed all the sand.. put in some argonite? Its a 20 gallon with an Aquaclear 20, and Aquaclear 70, and a sponge filter haha. I put all this in, because I have a colony of about 50+ multis in this tank. Will the bacteria in the filters be enou...

well.. I guess I can take out snails everyday for a week or so until I move them in. All I have to do is throw in food and all the MTS snails pop up.

Hey guys.. I just picked up 2 GSPs from my LFS. I am planning on putting them into my work tank. Right now I have a bunch of shellies in there which im going to move out. The GSPs are going into a 5 gallon to quarantine for a week. My question is, in most of my tanks, I keep ALOT of malaysian trumpe...

Thanks.. thats all I need to know about the mussels.

Hey guys, I went to my LFS and saw a tank full of figure 8's. Most of them were in rough rough shape.. fins were missing.. one of them looked half dead. I saw about 4 that were ok, so I picked up the smallest one with a small bite off one of his fins (his top fin.. dorsal?) I have him temporarily in...