The Puffer Forum

I have a juvenile GSP in a 12-gallon tank. I've only recently been enlightened to testing the water, and I discovered that the pH was only 7.0! I've been using SeaBuffer and have the pH up to 8.2 now. The puffer is certainly happier, but the algae in the tank has really exploded. Is there any kind o...

Do your puffers ever change color when they eat? Mine will have white belly normally (as long as I keep the Ph high-my tap water is almost acidic so this is a challenge) but it darkens to splotchy gray, especially where her spots meet her belly, when I feed her. Is this normal? My previous puffer on...

My first puffer started out in a 2 gallon hexoganal tanks, because I had no idea what I was doing when I brought her home. I bought her for my dorm room, and I thought she was really cute. Little did I know! She stayed in that tank for nearly a year. Next was a 5 gallon, then a 10, then finally a 12...

My puffer does the same thing, and I seem to have run out of options. I have a Spotted puffer (juvenile still, she's just over an inch long) in a 12-gallon tank. I keep the tank at med-high brackish (1 tsp. Instant Ocean/gallon) and her water tests fine. The temperature usually hovers around 78. I r...

Hi, I'm new to the forum, I just got my third Spotted (Green, whatever) puffer, named Freckles :) I'm trying to breed snails for her (he? it?) but I'm having a little bit of trouble getting them to reproduce. I keep the snails (I have no idea what species they are, they're small and brown with a tap...