The Puffer Forum

I have a A. modestus that is about 2" long and has teeth overgrown problems. I have looked through the library and have tried to perform the teeth trimming but his mouth is too small for the trimming. Is there any other way to do this??? I cant get the clipper inside his mouth without grabbing ...

ok...so i did it with clove oil and he went out nicely, i did 3 little clippings of his teeth and then i started getting too nervous and shaky. I put him back into normal water and he came back too within 2min.(each second seemed like it lasted hours!!!) It took another few min to understand he was ...

its just wierd that one of them has really overgrown teeth and the other one doesn't. Pufferpunk, do you use clove oil? or Finquel?

awesome. Thank you very much. I hope all goes well with my first trimming. I'll now know what it feels like to be on looking down rather than up from a dentist's chair.

I have two 2" A. modestus in a 55gallon tank that have been doing fine for 6-7months now. Over the last month one of the puffer was getting bigger than the other one and I thought maybe this was natural. Today as i was feeding them, i saw the smaller one has overgrown teeth. The larger one does...

Their diet is pretty much bloodworms daily until they are round and then a snail at night time. Their are small ghost shrimps in the tank to clean up debris and maybe be food. Other than that, i have the Freeze Dried Krill I give to them once a week. What else should i feed my little guys? I hear a ...

I have two A. Modestus in a 55 gallon tank and are doing fine. I have had them both for close to half a year now and feed them daily meals of blood worms and a snail at evening. They both are only about 1.5" long. Is there anyway to give my puffers PGH (Puffer Growth Hormone)? :) do make them b...

I have a 55 gallon tank with 2 1" A. silus, 2 danio and a candy pleco. I also have a 30 gallon with ~8 neons, a XL tetra, a frog, molley, platy, Indian dwarf puffer, and a few shrimp and ottos. I was wondering if anyone had an idea for the best way to travel these guys 50min up the freeway to a...

ok thats what i thought, I wanted to check with this forum before I did anything I regret!!!
Thanks for the responses, I"ll have to wait to get some figure 8's.
Are figure 8's easier to keep then GSP's? I had a GSP a while back and he was very fragile with living.

I have a 55 gallon tank with two A. silus in it. Got lots of plants and rocks to hide and swim around.(I do weekly water changes 25%) I saw tiny little baby figure 8's at the LFS .25-.5 inches long and wanted to see if this tank would support a little figure 8 as well? I know figure 8's want a sligh...

ok great! thanks mjay, I was worrying about the same thing, i wouldn't want my puffer chewing on string.

thread like twine? or like sewing thread?

great! yea it looks like it hasn't changed the water temperature. I like it. I have added some java ferms plants to it, but i don't know how to get them to stick onto the wood. i hear you can get them to grow on the wood somehow

I added the wood yesterday and it looks great and didn't change the water color. I havn't checked the pH but i'm sure it went down a bit but the puffers seem to be doing fine and maybe a little lower pH is good for them. It was up around 8 before the addition of the wood.

Myaj I think you are right. I saw eggs on the glass a few days ago and now try are gone. Even the empty sack too. Are you saying I should take out all the mts snails? I have been putting in zuccini and there are a lot of mts snails. More than the pond snails. Could this be the problem? as for the fi...