The Puffer Forum

I have had this puffer for a month and a half. He is in a 6 gal. eclipse aquarium. It was cycled with new balance for 2 weeks with no living fish. He lives with one guppy. Water changes are once a week, 20-25% with a water conditioner solution. Ammonia: Unsure Nitrate: 0 Nitrite: 0.3 or less I am cu...

I have a dwarf puffer that is not a very big eater. I feed him frozen and freeze dried bloodworms and their are some days when he doesn't want to eat either of them. He is a pretty skinny puffer and quite small. Can anyone give me food suggestions or any tips? thanks.

Ive always had freshwater fish and most the time I can get a pleco or snail to clean the glass in my tank. But, obviously since I have a GSP I cant keep anything in the tank with him. What would be the best way to clean the algae off my glass and filter?

So I got a new GSP and hes in perfect condition and so is his tank. I recently fed him about a dozen baby snails and now my tank bottom is littered with shells. What would be the best way to clean that? try to siphon even with my sand bottom? stick my hand in their with my attack puffer cruising aro...

I had a GSP a few weeks ago and before he died he spent most his time at the top of the surface. After, he died I bought a guppy to keep the bacteria alive and I noticed that the guppy spends all of its time at the top of the surface. Since I had the puffer I changed the gravel out for sand thats al...

Thanks everyone for all your help and information. I am sure that in the future I should have better luck with pufferfish. I really appreaciate it.

One question....Do I still need to cycle my tank? I had my 2 puffers live their for about 3 weeks give or take. I still also have about 6 ghost shrimp swimming around and about a dozen mini snails that he never ate. Should I put in a brackish fish or do you think my tank is puffer ready?

I am restarting my tank since my puffer died and I am deciding whether or not I should replace my undergravel filter and rocks for a sand bottom...What would the benefits be from this if any? Is the maintenance similar to a gravel bottom? Which would you prefer and why?

My puffer died im going to let the tank run and put one of my african chiclids in it to help keep the bacteria alive and wait about 2 weeks before introducing another puffer to the tank.

I just got home and its late. I dont think my puffer is going to make it through the night. I noticed him swimming lifelessy at the top and he was covered in tiny bubbles. I though he was dead he was moving so still but he swam a little. Now, hes laying in the leaves of a plant but he looks really b...

Yea my bad, that was suppose to say 2 weeks. Ill give him some time I had some high pH problems but I took care of that recently with water changes now everything in my tank is perfect, nitrate, nitrite, and pH

I might look into that light suggestion because im pretty sure my fish doesnt like light. I got off work just now and found my puffer at the top of the water floating in the bubbles and he wasn't moving any of his fins like usual he was just floating at the top and it almost looked like the top of h...

Nitrate - 20 ppm Nitrite - 0 pH - 7.8 salinity - 1.006 - recently purchased prime dechlorinator and I used it today on a tap water, water change. - instant ocean marine salt is used on the tank, I also have a box of electorlyzed salt, but I was told that this electrolyzed salt should only be used wh...

ive had him for about w weeks now....

should I buy a weaker light? He has gray outlines during the day but at night he is fine