The Puffer Forum

Ridiculous how picky each individual gsp is, well im glad I found what mine likes!

Hey everyone, I noticed in the feeding section that frozen squid was not listed, I saw some in the grocery store the other day and decided to give some to my gsp, just cut off a chunk and thawed it in some tank water. He LOVES it, I've had him on mussels (which he picks at slowly) and bloodworms (wh...

Well today i finally stopped being irresponsible and went and bought a hydrometer for my gsp's tank. I was surprised to see the salinity of the water is barely 1.008. My puffer is almost two years old so i think i'm going to aim to move up to 1.014. Does this sound right? and if so how much can i ra...

Hey Everyone, I'm interested in the growth rate of my GSP, I've had mine a year and a half now so he's probably a little over 2 years old, he is around 2 inches now and doing great I just wanted to check if this is a growth rate that others have experienced, I also wanted to get some pictures of big...

Ok thanks, I've read that article and I would still like suggestions as to what to feed him, especially foods that will sink to the bottom as this is where he eats, I was going to try a small mussel and some snails and i also wanted to try a live earthworm as there's a forest behind my house that do...

I've had my GSP for about 7 months now and he is getting pretty big (over 2 inches). I fed him on frozen krill (the big ones) until about 3 weeks ago when i moved him tanks. He never really seemed to enjoy the krill and was never in a rush to eat it. I decided to switch to bloodworms after I moved t...

Thanks for all the advice, i cycled the tank by bringing 5 gallons of the water from the 30 gallon back home with me, i kept it at the right temperature, i also brought some gravel from the old tank and the filter media then just topped up the other 5 gallons with new water, also this 10 gallon is o...

Hey all, I had to move back home from University last week for the summer and I brought my GSP with me, He's about 2.5 inches now (getting bigger!) and at school he has a 30 gal tank thats well decorated all to himself. I couldn't bring the tank home so I had to transfer him to a 10 gallon. Ever sin...

after reading that i think that my food preparation for my gsps may have been the culprit, I usually only let there krill thaw for 5 or 10 mins which will apparently keep air in it, i'll definitely soak it for longer now

Thanks for the compliments!

I'll check out that article thanks guys

for future reference how do you fix that?

Hey i got the videos up of my poor little puff about an hour before he died, tell me what you think, at the end of the longer one you can see my healthy one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlBJFCSotYg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7WpfSkm-JE

Thanks

He stopped breathing as i was uploading the videos of him, in his last hour he was doing this weird gulping thing where he stomach was moving alot, was he puffing? im not sure anyway R.I.P. little puffer at least my one remaining is in a proper sized tank now

ya i'm using instant ocean, i'll put a pic up soon

ph - 7.4 I haven't tested the water as i ran out of strips I might be able to go down to my LFS today though salinity 1.010 30 gal tank with two filters kept at 74 ferenheit with two 2 inch GSP's Feeding: Frozen Krill every other day, 10 gal water change with gravel cleaning once a week No New addit...