The Puffer Forum

so its been a half a yearsince I have been on the forums and ive moved into a new house as well as upgraded/downgraded my pufferfish tank. I started out with a 55gal tank which had... 4 baby figure eights. unfortunately I lost 3 of them to ich. later in the year I got a dragon goby and introduced it...

yeah I dont really have a Q tank. The residue has settled on all of the decor though, I did stake the carbon out and its back in now. I'm going to be doing a WC and rasing the salinity today so I'll scrub the sides down realy good and vaccuum I'll just try and brush off the decor.

so cleaning the tank like that will kill most of the bacteria I have in the tank huh?

It was Mardel Maracide for the ich.

ok so I just finished up with Ich and IP treatments for my puffers. And basically now my while tank and decor is covered in the residue from the meds. Would it be safe if I were to do a complete tank cleaning (remvoeing EVERYTHING brushing it down etc. then stirring the sand/coral crush mix I have f...

yeah.. the other one I suspected that had IP's is pretty much staying in the top corner. he is still eating but barely. its weird.. both of them were eating very well untill today... then niko died.. :'(

sad update. so I went and picked up the tabs this morning. put them in... went to work. and came home to a dead Niko

ok so update... one of the puffers DEFINITLY has IP's I feel he will die. he went from eating and swimming around overnihgt to almost intoverted the nex morning. hes just sitting ont he bottom of the tank skinny not eating. I went and got the Jungle Labs fizz tabs this morning and put them in. but I...

tank is 50g, they're going in with my f8's hopefully hey will live together peacefully *crosses fingers*

thats what I was thinking. so I ordered 10 last night. probably wont get here until Tuesday since its the weekend they wont ship.

Brachygobius doriae is the one live aquaria sells

Brachygobius xanthozona is the ones I am thinking of buying.

they also differ a little in appearance. one of them has unbroken strips and one has non unbroken strips

OK so I've come across two different species and I'm not sure what one is the ONLY brackish one and which is the brackish/fresh Brachygobius xanthozona <--- I think this is the brackish only Brachygobius doriae <--- I think this is the brackish/fresh my tank is currently at 1.002 is this enough to s...

yeah? well I guess tomorrow I'll stop the treatment and start the salt haha. I would do it right now but I dont have any large buckets I can mix the salt into all I have is a gallon jug I have been useing >_<

yeah I dotn have a Q tank or I would have done that. I'm actually treating them all for ich atm.

yeah that was a miss type on my part sorry >_<