The Puffer Forum

Well, I'm not sure I want anymore for a while, even though I thought they were fairly easy to care for, I'm just going to stick to my freshwater angel fish for now. Besides, I love angelfish and have always wanted them, however I was unaware of how BIG they get. I saw one at the pet store that was a...

OH WOW! I did not know that. Well, all of my puffers have died off now so thankfully I don't have to worry about the MTS's. How many puffers do you have? I used to have 3 GSP's until I put an algae killer in there and it killed of the good bacteria with the bad and my tank kept on mini-cycling (whic...

Yea I heard that if they start to take over the tank too much that if you put an old carrot in there or a piece of lettuce that the next morning there will be a ton of them on it and you can just get rid of it. When I had my puffers I gave them some MTS's before but I didn't notice anything wrong wi...

Ok, I found the answer to my question. And might I add, I was quite wrong as to the type of snail I had. Turns out the snails I do have are the Malaysian Trumpet snails. After some research I've found that these are probably the best snails to have in an aquarium, ESPECIALLY a planted aquarium. They...

I have an abundant supply of algae growth in my aquarium, so I decided to transfer the majority of my ramshorn snails from the breeding tank to my freshwater, angelfish tank. I just recently bought some small amazon sword plants and a kyoto grass plant. I was wondering if they eat the healthy live p...

Thats sucks. Sorry to hear Pufferpunk! I do know that discus are very finickey. We moved our discus, this one time when I was in the Animal Care Program and they died. They just get so stressed out too easlily.

So sorry for your loss...

I may not have much expertise (as you say lilgreenpuffer) but I, too have also used Parasite Clear before many times and I found it to be pretty good. Now, I havn't used it on puffers but I've used it on a lot of other fish that are just as sensitive as them. Obviously every medication does have to ...

Ok, thats the thing though! I did do research, all throughout the internet. I read how angelfish are semie-aggressive and how gouramis are also semi-aggressive but that when put with fish of the same temperament that there shouldn't be a problem. Right now, it's the mollies that seem to be chasing e...

Dadof4: What the heck!!! Why couldn't someone at the LFS tell me that they were brackish fish? I did not want anymore brackish fish at the moment. I'm so irritated. I never knew they were brackish and I, as well, have had them before. Maybe that's why I never seen them get anymore than 3-4 in, becau...

J-P: haha, you're fine, I think it's best that we changed the topic anyways. Oh, by the way...all of my new fish are doing great!! The pleco still won't come out yet, but they don't usually come out too often during the day so I'm not suprised any.

Well I still shouldn't have gotten like that lol. Sorry again though :(. Yea I'll check again. But he didn't even look anything like the normal pleco. I saw him and he had like peach spots where they eyes should be and I though something had eaten his eyes out but when I looked closer, his eyes were...

BTW: sorry to have gotten so mad like that. I had just woke up from a nap after getting up wayyy too early and I get pretty cranky. And when I saw the post I just kinda got mad. So...I'm sorry to have jumped the gun on you like that.

Honestly...I'm not sure what kind it is. I'll try googling a lot of pics and see which one fits mine best and let you know. I can say that when he brought him home, he said that the LFS told him that it wouldn't get much bigger than it is now and he's about an inch or so. I know for sure it's not th...

The puffers did die from a mini cycle, yes, but it's not like I threw them into the tank UNCYCLED!! It was due to the fact that we were using and algae killer that killed off everything included the bad bacteria. Oh, and yea, the first time I got a puffer (which I knew nothing about) I put them in a...