The Puffer Forum

Noted and no it wasn't in reference to your post, its just a general note of a problem i have seen on this forum. The few i noted are thread hijacking and fault picking.

Funny....... Im not sure how many people are on this forum but, not just in this thread, baut others too, I have tried to save people money and took out the time to mention things that i have found to be helpful. Yet for whatever reason (and i stress its in most threads not just this one) there is v...

Worth mentioning yes, mines been on the go a week and is perfect but the guy i bought it from bought 500 of them for his fish shop and he was told that they couldnt compete with eheim on that size filter and because they never broke down there was no profit in selling parts to existing customers. Fl...

Just as info for you guys, Interpet are stopping production of the interpet EPF 150 its an external power filter, I have just bought one for about £30 and have to say its extremely good, it comes with a very comprehencive media selection and enough power for up to a 4 foot tank in my opinion. Though...

Iput the water in my container (about 8 gallons) and treated it and then mixed in a tablespoon at a time until completely dissolved, went to 16 tablespoons (not heaped, not quite level) so thats overall 16 tablespoons of salt for 25 gallons, which is far less than would cause problems from what ive ...

Well thats me started adding the salt to my set up for the f8's and the gobys, i have a 25 gallon tank and its a steady 80 deg, parameters are all good. I put in enough salt to cover less than one tablespoon per gallon, i mixed up 16 tablespoons worth (not really heaped either) just to start it all ...

Excellent well happy for you. tonight what you could try is 2 pieces of cardboard, half an hour before lights out put on piece inside the hood to cover half the light then 15 minutes later do the other half then 15 minutes later switch off and remove cardboard. i have 2 tubes on my tank i switch one...

Sorry i couldnt be more help but the fact that no-one else has replied tells me thats all you can do. Let her settle and tommorow try a wee drop of food and 3 days of melafix, costs about £6. Let me know if shes ok tommorow will you? But they are really quite tough i think shell be fine. Night for now

Paleness happens, mine changed when i bought another f8 as company. Melafix is wonderfull stuff, you can make your own if you have 100% pure teatree oil, 1% teatree to 99% distilled water. May be able to get some from your department store etc of the mix use 5ml for 50 litres.

wouldnt worry about the pale colour mine change colour alot

If you have some melafix plop in the recommended amount as it can have a relaxing effect on stressed fish, some use it when moving fish to a new tank to keep them calm, leva ethe lights off and perhaps give her time. test for an ammonia spike too with it being fresh move they like it warm too im at ...

oops yes that was a typo sorry, i meant to type 1.005

as long as its not touching the side it should be fine, but use caution, i would try and get something to space it a little, has the water been dechlorinated? a good idea may be to use a piece of deco from main tank with plenty of life (bacteria) on it just to tempt them. algae discs (very cheap) pl...

you could put some fine filter media in to slow down current, and some algae discs, heat will become important when it comes time to breed them, you slkowly raise temp and they get frisky. Wouldnt worry too much about filtering massively as they like a good bit of algae/slime to feed on, too much di...

or to make it really easy 1/100th of teatree oil + 99/100ths distilled water