The Puffer Forum

I forget how odd my F8s coloring is until I see everyone else's.

We have two amano shrimp in our DP tank and they remain unmolested.

Also, they are some of the finickiest eaters on the planet and prone (especially the ones we got from PEtsmart) to parasites.

I'd go ahead if you can and treat them proactively.

I posted mine in your other topic.

Looks like I spoke too soon. Yesterday I noticed Percy sporting a larger belly and I knew we hadn't fed him.


However, apparently he doesn't like the taste of BBGs since he just bit the back end off the poor thing and left him. He hasn't touched any of the others.

Our two amano shrimp have not been bothered by the DPs at all.

We got 6 BBGs for Percy, my F8. When we first put them in the bag in the top of the tank, Percy would not stop attacking the bag. Steel and I fed him and while he was distracted, popped the BBGs in a net and released them at the bottom of the tank. Percy doesn't seem to mind them. If he sees one, he...

have a lfs that we trust for good water. We buy live crayfish there to feed our GSPs. Other than one fin nip at which point the offending claw was bitten of and then paraded around the tank like a trophy, there's been no harm to the puffs and they love the hunt. I wouldn't buy the crayfish from just...

I consider ghost shrimp as 'toys' for my GSPs and F8. They are never more brightly colored or excited as when they are hunting them.

You feed them still frozen???

We always thaw ours in hot water first. Steel says the cold temperature isn't good for them.

Are those the worms we've been using the Levamisol to get rid of or are these different?

Okay, so Steel and I have been like vultures over the dwarf tank since we've been experimenting with the various ways to get rid of internal parasites. We were distressed to note what looked like a piece of bloodied intestine on one of our females. Our best guess was that she had gotten herself one ...

Our largest GSP was dark bellied almost all the time until we changed our substrate from black gravel to crushed shell. Now our big puff has a bright white belly most of the time. I've noticed the color changes often have to do with their emotional state. Even in the black gravel, if the big puff wa...

A little over a week later and here are some cute pics of our surviving girls. We're down to five but these pics are right after feeding and they're all quite pudgy. I'm hoping we've finally got this stupid parasite problem licked. It was heartbreaking losing so many, but here are the survivors. We'...