The Puffer Forum

Thanks for all the response.
i'll keep an eye on it and see what happens...
hope everything is gonna be fine

it is smooth, looks more like swelling underneath its skin. I don't see any wound on him and he's eating well and really active. the only thing new i added to the tank was a live red-claw crab a week ago as like a treat. But i did De-Clawed the crab (like i cut the claws out before i put it into the...

here is a picture.
sorry for the photo quality, my camera doesnt work well when my GSP is moving like crazy (he saw me and thought it's meal time!!LOL)

but u can kinda see the hump on the back of his head

i just notice yesterday that one of my GSP have a hump on the back of his head!!

he looks fine (bright neon green with white belly) and is still very active.

it look as if he have cancer or something. but it just appeared like over-night.

doesn't anyone know what it is? i'm worry.......

i've seen one puffed up.

my other puffer was having a little chase play/fight with him then he turned around and puffed.

they were both ok tho, still white belly after the puff.

i guess they could be playing while practicing their "puffing" technique

I think i read it somewhere in the forum saying that if u want to raise the salinity slowly, general rule of thumb is the new water (if u r doing a 50% change) should be at a salinity at doubling it's desire salinity. for example, your current salinity is 1.002 and u wanna raise it to 1.004. The sal...

i'm just wondering if cherry shrimps r gonna be ok in BW of salinity around 1.006? cuz my ghost shrimp r doing fine in the tank for weeks..helping me clean the tank a bit (my puffers don't really bother them if i keep the puffers well feed. and there's plenty hiding places in the tank. I just lost o...

yea, and sometimes even after i tell them that puffers are not community fish and that they need a larger BW tank setup. i often get the answer of "don't worry, he's small right now, he will be fine, he's been in my tank for like a week and he's still alive!" people just won't listen!! sig...

My lfs got a big shippment of GSP and they were on sale for 2.99cdn each. Saw lots of kids buying them becuase they r "small and cute". We all know what's gonna happen to them next. Makes me sad =( I managed to talk a kid out of it tho. He ended up just getting a betta for his 5gallon tank...

I think u can start adding the salt in. The higher temp will actual help dissolving the salt a bit.

U don't need to add the bio-spira or safestart when u set up the tank as it's a instant cycle. Just add it in the water right before u add the fish into the tank. Otherwise, without ammonia the bacteria from the biospira r just gonna die and u'll be wasting $$

i'm having two filter running together, one aqua clear 50 and one aqua clear 70.

i have a protein skimmer laying around somewhere in my room... debuting if i should add that in the BW tank?

yea. i added a bag of 22lbs crushed corals with my old gravel (which was like half crushed coral half normal aquarium gravel) i'm glad that i DID mixed them up for a more even look (the normal aquarium gravel were blue). i didn't realize that i can actually kill the bacterias.. i added all my rocks ...

ok.. so i moved the 3 GSP (all about 1.5 inches) into the 95 gallon with all my old water, decor, gravel, and filter about 5 days ago. i raised the salinity a bit in the bigger tank to 1.006 (was 1.004). i dripped them when transferring them into the big tank. temperature, Nitrate, Nitrite, ammonia ...

just out of curiosity. i read in couple of posts that if a GSP's teeth is like over-grown, its teeth need to be trimmed? but like how...? i thought puffers r not suppose to be like out of the tank, as they can be puffing up with air, which is like dangerous? i know feeding snails to PREVENT it from ...