The Puffer Forum

I tried to find his belly, but his skin was so hard to cut through with my x-acto that I couldn't get all the way into the stomach. I think I got stuck around the...whatever is near the beginning of the tail muscle and then I couldn't cut him anymore because it was pretty hard to slice him open. The...

I have seen his poop and it was always dark, never white. White poop would have immediately made me suspicious because that's a sign of parasites in betta fish. I am baffled how he could appear completely healthy and in a matter of hours become emaciated and die. I'm not sure if I can bring myself t...

I will definitely purchase that before getting another figure eight, thanks.

This morning I quite unexpectedly lost my f8, and I've been Googling all morning without finding much that it could be. First off I'll list all my tank params. He was alone in a cycled (I did fishless cyling before I got him with media/dirty water from my other tanks) 20g long, substrate a mix of ab...

Oh my gosh I was so worried about him. He is swimming around like usual and looks fine but he scared me, puffing up like that!

Thanks for your input!

I am very upset right now because I googled and it told me terrible things about puffers dying when they puff, but just now Roast Beef got caught in the siphon tube (he loves to attack it and I'm always careful to avoid him but he launched himself up it like a rocket) and when he hit the top of the ...

I did a search and couldn't really find the answer to this, everything said to defrost in tank water, but is it possible for me to freeze small shrimp, clams, other bits of sea creatures, etc. IN tank water and then just take the whole cup out of the freezer to defrost before giving it to my figure ...