The Puffer Forum

Ah! Okay. That is great information. Thank you.

When you say "feed the snails". You mean "feed the puffers snails", right? I'm sure that's what you meant. I had recently gotten a bunch of snails from the pet store. Maybe my puffers got some bad ones. If my snails are diseased, would the snails just die in 4 weeks letting me kn...

I have a ton of snails. They are breeding just fine. I have some live plants in there. My question was more about what do I do to make sure they are quarantined well enough to feed my fish? And, when considering the amount of fish for a tank, (I'm thinking of the conversation earlier about hormones,...

Thank you!

I have some of that down, but didn't do any kind of parasite stuff. Any thoughts on a snail tank? Anyone?

I knew of one store here locally that I'd seen the dwarf puffers at. I went there yesterday to take a look. I asked if they had any and the sales guy points me to a figure 8 puffer in a salt tank. I said "Isn't than an figure 8?" He says "yeah, but there are lots of dwarf puffers, he'...

Rich, CoreyK, Idontknow, and Pufferpunk, Thanks for all the explanations and encouragement. I didn't understand about the bio-load. I never thought about danios zipping around causing stress. The puffers did seem to like to hang out in quiet areas of the tank. Didn't understand the term "over s...

I didn't realize there was such a difference between aquarium salt and marine salt. Interesting. Could that have stressed them? Or it was probably "overstocking"? Overstocking still confuses me. If I have a 10 gallon tank and 3 inches of fish - how is that better or worse than when they ge...

StormySkiez - Yes. I learned after the commitment that I had not done enough research. I honestly read several sites about GSP before I got one and never got enough information. Actually WRONG information. Forums are great and sites are great, but they can have bad information. After I got them, I c...

Iliveinazoo - I read that danios can do well in a puffer tank because they are quick and can deal with the salt. One of the reasons I picked those. I couldn't find a hydrometer that would measure the brackish water and had been looking for one online - but I was very careful to measure the water tha...

Indie - I thought about the pleco and the salt - but it is the same salinity as the pet store kept him. So, I figured it was better to keep him in the same stuff. Maybe now that the puffers are gone, I should do a 50% water change and get rid of some of the salt? Christemo - What kind of stress? The...

1. Tank size: 10 gallon 2. Tank Mates: two 1 - 2" GSP, two Danios, one placo, ghost shrimp 3. Ammonia, Nitrate, Nitrite: 0, 5.0, 0 4. Any chemicals or medications added to the water recently: none 5. How was the tank cycled: over a period of weeks with the danios & stress zyme 6. What is th...