The Puffer Forum

Still no deaths, and algae is definitely dying, I think the lack of dead fish is probably just because all the ones that were going to die, were already dead or dying, and only the rest were left.

Hey guys, so the day after adding CO2 everything seemed much better, no new dead fish, and none since. The tank on the whole is looking better, algae seems to be in remission to some extent, and all seems pretty well... a lot of fish died over the days, but a lot survived as well... Casualties: 4 Ne...

Quick update, the one ender than was hanging on the bottom ate it last night, but the rest seem to be back to themselves, I think the decline might be over, though it'll be a long road back up hill.

Either way, we'll see tomorrow... :/

you can QT a fish in a food grade cooler ;) HOBs will work and because of the insulation you are less likely to get temperature swings :) I drilled the top of one of mine, just in case to allow for an air hose and sponge filter (also used for fish transport). With the lid down it is dark and won't ...

I pulled up some pictures of the tank I took for a friend a few days before medicating and everything, and I noticed that algae has increased quite a bit and the plants look less happy, so I added some nutes and CO2 (small amounts of both) to see if I could jump start the plants as they will help ke...

Well, there've been two fish that look out of it hanging around the bottom for a couple days now, but they are still alive, one has a red spot on it's upper left side. The other looks fine, just lethargic, it was having swim bladder problems but I can't tell if it still is. This morning there were t...

well I have seen guppy fry first hand surviving an uncycled tank. The meds usually hit scaleless fish and inverts first. That is a direct result of the meds. The chems tests show that it had an effect on the bio filter. CO2 can wait till later. You don't want a PH crash on top of a bio crash. Perso...

Your ammonia is up a little high, is that due to this fish dying or is it always that high? Puffers do not get sick easily.....they are just easy to kill (bad water, small tank), but cared for properly they are not immune deficient The Ammonia looks between 0 and 0.25, so I figured I would rather r...

Alright, so I have a 90 gallon tank and a 20 gallon, a female endler in the 90 got what looked like ich, which was weird because nothing new had been introduced for some time. Salt bath in quarantine, it went away in a couple days, continued treatment for a couple more as everything i read suggested...

I haven't had any luck, and I'm assuming it's probably not something that exists, but are there any dual solenoid regulators out there? Not just a splitter with one, but two; so, for example, you could have not only one bottle feeding two tanks, but have one bottle feeding two tanks at different tim...

You are keeping DPs with the guppies? Yeah, I know it's not a great idea, and its probably only temporary, but it's a heavily planted 90 gallon tank so everyone should have enough room to avoid fighting I think... :/ At the moment the puffs stay mostly toward hhe bottom and the guppies are at the t...

It's very common that cories surf up and down the glass right after having been moved. Moving cories is one of the tricks to make them start breeding. Cories breed in the rainy season. By imitating things that happens when the rainy season starts, we can get our cories start spawning. The reason wh...

Alright, so I made the descision, all of the fish are now in the 90 along with three new dwarf puffers. There's a male and a female that have buddied up and are now hanging out together, and another thats off on its own and very pale... I think its a female, but I can't tell because it's so faded. I...

Well, it sounds like you found the answer, but when I had green water problems, I accidentally found my solution. I had had my light attached to a light switch (my living room is also a home theater, and the only room not my bedroom) and had obviously had it on more than needed. My tank got lots of ...

I have read in more than one place that a good indicator a snail is alive is if there is still meat in the shell. I have a snail tank with a bunch of common pond snails I breed for my puffers and when one dies for whatever reason, I always find an empty shell and a nasty little gob of meat bobbing ...