The Puffer Forum

Try this to get her eating crush up a garlic clove and some hot water add leave it for a while drain off the liquid and add a frozen mussel and leave to thaw out cut in to 4 leave it for half an hour and drop a piece in front of her, it gets my puffers eating after they have been ill

well i think today is the worst day ever i got a phone call from the wife to say that there was a waterfall coming from the front room ceiling and that my sap tank had about 6 inches of water left in it, so i raced home when i got there it was down to 3 inches so i baged all the puffers up plec,and ...

It looks more like she is trying to blend in with the black sand, if you can change it to a light sand colour and she will change to a sort of canary yellow with dark stripes. Mine still tries to bury her self now which is funny as she hits the bottom of the tank and only a quater of her is under th...

Thats a Modestus

How many liters or gallons of water do you use over a month doing water changes and how much do you pay out for food, i have just worked mine out omg i must be mad food bill for the month 65 pounds, water 3375 liters or 891.5 gallons

I always figured the modestus has a deeper chest, as mine seem to. Matt, are you in agreement that mine are modestus from looking at the caudal peduncle? Hi pp can you send me a side on pic for now im going to say modestus, but for some reason when i look at the second photo i see something that do...

Good news she is her happy little self again

Hi its nothing to worrie about next time you clip there teeth gently scrape it off i had this with some of mine.

Hi guys you can tell the difference between the two species in one way by looking at the caudal peduncle A Silus is longer and thinner while A modestus is rounder and shorter this is the part of the fish starts from the end of the dorsal fin to the begining of the tail fin and the end of the anal fi...

Thenks Amy. I emailed Toyin (whom I got her from) about finding me a new one & asked if he knew the longevity of this species & color varient. I also invited him to post here. Hi pp sorry for your loss, as for how long they live 8 years plus i know of 1 that reached 10 years. Also i know of...

Jase wrote:found a whole page about sabbactisun, but never said what's in it...

Its completely chemical free, Ingredients( aqua, plant extracts) all so have a look at Parazoryne

t1gerbee wrote:what did you do to get it under control? Is she fully healed now?

Hi yes she is almost fully healed, she decided to rearrange her tank last night plants all over the place. I treated her with primfix and sabbactisun.

How big is he? My 11" fahaka (includes tail) eats 1-2x/week (other than the other fish's worms he steals out of the worm feeder) & never to the belly size your is. Hi pp she is 15" and about 2 years old, in the wild fahaka eat 2-3% of there body weight a day as this constitutes most o...

Pufferpunk wrote:My guess is you may be overfeeding. Please describe her feeding regimen.

Hi she gets feed every 2-3 days depending on how much she eats each time

do you have any melafix/pimafix handy? that wouldn't hurt and would also rule out a skin problem, when my mbu was given to me he was always dark and didn't eat or move alot for a week and a half, but a day after i dosed with Mela/Pima he was bright and hungry, coincidence? i don't think so, any liv...