The Puffer Forum

The funny thing is that he used to be way more into snails than the worms. He used to hunt and circle the snail and do the whole wait and snatch thing. Now he just swims up to it and begins biting at it without even waiting for it to come out of the shell all the way. If he doesn't get it out right ...

Thanks PP, I think that's what I'll do.

Hi everyone, My DP used to be a snail killing machine, but now he's lost interest in them. I feed mostly live blackworms with the occasional snail. He gobbles up the worms like there's no tomorrow but isn't that enthused about the snails. Seeing how DPs don't have dental issues, can I just quit with...

If you have access to live blackworms you should try those. DPs will almost always eat them.

Thanks guys. It's really sad, but I have to move on and decide what I'm going to do with my tank. I want to get the divider out of there because it doesn't make much sense to just have one dp on one side and two ghost shrimp on the other. I have a five gallon that is in the midst of cycling for a be...

Sadly my DP Hovermuffin was stuck to the intake of the filter this morning. Everything was going so well and then out of the blue she was sick and died. The wound on her face became pretty gruesome the last few days. I was dosing with the pima/mela just as the bottle said, and it looked like it was ...

alright thanks. I just wondered because on the bottle it says to do a wc after the seven days of treatment. Have you ever experienced a puffer having a bad reaction to the fixes?

so if I do a water change how do continue the medication? Will the WC throw off the medication? I know I will have to do one, I just wondered if my dosage should change due to the wc. I put prime in the tank to detox the ammonia and plan on doing a water change as soon as I hear what my next step sh...

anyone?

1.) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate) ammonia = .25? (so hard for me to read the colors) Nitrite 0, nitrate 10 temp is 79 2.) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants ten gallon 2dps 1 cherry shrimp, two ghost shrimp 3.)Feeding, water change schedule...

I added another airstone on suggestion from Dadof4 and it seems to be helping. thanks!

I keep my blackworms in a an old water bottle. It's convenient because it takes up no room in the fridge. When I feed I have a little plastic bowl and I dump the blackworms in that and feed. Afterwards I rinse the worms, but a little tank water in and put them back in the fridge. They last me about ...

Thanks for responding Eieio, I did my water change today like normal, conditioned with prime and added Melafix and Pimafix per the instructions. For some reason though, the puffer who has the bump seems to be stressing out. His face colors are changing pretty frequently. The coloration looks the sam...

Hi everyone, My DP has developed a sore on his mouth about a week ago. It looks almost like he was rubbing his nose up against the side too much. I watched it carefully and did some extra water changes. It got a little bigger and then died down to a smaller size. It's still present though. Do you th...

+1 From what I've read, blackworms are more readily accepted than anything else.