The Puffer Forum

You've got some really cute DPs polishpuff! :) The other 4 I have look basically exactly the same as the ones in the pics you posted, along with the 'weird' one, except for his markings. The last picture you posted looks slightly more like him, but the brown is darker with bright gold lines running ...

I did check out the other pics and he doesn't look like them, there is quite a bit of variation in looks in my other DPs as well (mostly male to female), but none look like this one. The main reason I think this might still be a DP is in the other features, the eyes, tail, mouth and belly all look e...

From the comments I'm starting to think it might be a DP, it might be that he is just slower to adopt the colouring from fry to mature than the others? He is still really small, I'd say slightly less than 1/2 inch. I guess time will tell though, I think it would be much easier to identify him in a m...

Thanks for the replies :) Here are two more pictures that are a little less blurry. The eyes are definitely not red, as my first guess was also one of the red eye types, they're black with a golden rim, sometimes from certain angles the black part can look green (much like a dog or cat's eyes) but d...

Hi there, its been a while since I've been here. I've been keeping figure 8 and GSP pufffers for about a year now, and recently spotted some dwarf puffers at the LFS. I decided to buy all 5 and things have been going great, they're all eating well and theres very little bickering going on. However, ...

With the strips I have had problems with false-positive tests before. So there is also the chance that your tank has been fine all along and the testing kit is to blame - all the more reason to get a proper one. I've had testing kits report nitrite/ammonia/nitrate in the water and got worried but wh...

You might want to try a floating plant, mine used to pace incessantly until I added some hornwort to the tank, it seems to mess with the reflections a bit and they love to hang around in it. If you have problems with pacing at the back of the tank, a background seems to put a stop to that.

I have got to go with the figure eights, they are low brackish which is really not that different from freshwater, just add a little salt with your water changes. I have also found that my water smells nicer and I have less problems with sickness after I raised their salinity a bit, so believe it or...

I had a similar thing on a goldfish once, I fixed it by pulling the 'worms' off using a tweezer and applied a very strong salt solution to the affected area only, following that by salt baths every day for the next few days. Afterwards he was good as new, but I'm not sure if you can go that crazy wi...

He seemed to be getting better, after a few days he started eating very heartily :) However my LFS recenly received a new batch of beautiful spotted greens, so I decided to take him back and get a healthier one instead. Now before you start thinking how mean I am, I have managed to convince my LFS t...

Great to know, I'll try them and see if my puffs like them, they havent turned down anything I have fed them though

A quick update: I read all the articles in the library, and now I'm thinking it might not be parasites. I actually managed to get him to eat by holding the food in my hand just below the water surface, it seems to help him and he tears little bits off. He ate very little compared to the others but h...

Hi, as I also mentioned in the welcome section I recently acquired 3 figure 8's and 2 GSps, all of them have fat bellies and healthy appetites except one. The one GSP looks like a skull with a tiny bit of flesh trailing behind (his shriveled body). He really tries to eat though, sometimes even steal...