The Puffer Forum

thanks for your reply, i was just curious as ive read on other forums that people do keep them at full marine (sg 1.021 - 1.022) and they report that the f8's are happy enough. obviously if they dont naturally live in the sea then i guess the life span will be limited, but like i said i was just won...

has anyone ever kept a figure 8 in full marine? the puffer in question is currently in water sg 1.006 i was just curious as to wether they will flourish in full salt water as does the GSP!

i see, im obviously a novice in puffer care, can anyone recommend a product to use instead of nutrafin cycle? (available in the uk!) the reason i have 6 is that the tank looked very bare with only 2 in it. you say i need to add amonia to assist in development of bacteria, from what i have gathered s...

the tank is 3feet long by 2 feet deep and 1 foot wide. the water changes have not seemed to make a difference despite doing them every day. i have been taking water from my other established tank to replace the water (the readings from this tank are all optimal but my girlfriend wont let my puffers ...

hi, was wondering if anyone could help. i have 6 small gsp's and despite many 50% water changes, i cannot seem to get my nitrites and nitrates down to reasonable levels. i initially cycled the tank with tips read from here (using filter media from healthy tank, plus nutrafin cycle etc) and then intr...