The Puffer Forum

They are so much more calm now. That i can say, shell would agree. These days they love to just swim around the air stone together or rush around after food. They are very good mates. Hope that does not change! Of course they do the old get away from me stuff but just not as bad as it used to be. Th...

No, she used to run away, but these days she gets behind him and gives him a bit of attitude. She is a lot smaller than him as well. Except that gut of course! I will be over shelleys place tomoz with a camera. The nicks on his tail are very very small, i think shes stopped it now they are mates :lol:

Oh and i think the female has taken a couple of chunks out of the males tail, does it grow back normally or will he have these nicks for the rest of his life?

Yeah we need some moss for sure! Looks really nice as well. The puffers have never puffed up yet! I've read it can be very bad for them in case they get air bubbles stuck inside but cant remember where i read that. He just puffs up his keel, the red bit on the bottom of his belly, nothing more! I sa...

We've had the puffers for a couple of months now. I thought as most i guess that puffers were sea living creatures like in finding nemo, never knew you could get fresh water ones that are so small and cute! On a quick note, i take it that these ones dont actually puff up unless the mail is displayin...

Thanks for the reply on Hexo's post, the yellow labs we have should get big so i think we have decided to just let them grow up with the red eyes, they have no sign of aggresion. Corys are a good idea though, will look into that! our puffers are so mellow they dont mind they fish they are keep with ...

Hi thanks for the warm welcome!

Thats a healthy list of puffers you have there!

Hi all, this is my first post, looks like a great repository of information on here and will be glad to help out where i can. We (shelleyboot) and I have got a couple of puffers. They are ready to breed as the males got his colours on and is puffing out and dancing with the female. We hope to get so...