The Puffer Forum

I had one of these one time. Got it from local fish store. He got it on trade. But I knew it was a puffer just didn't know what kind. It was a cool fish died after about a year for no apparent reason.

I have a 125gallon FOWLR with some yellow polyps that never seemed to die or get ate. Anways ? is can I have a Stars and Stripes puffer with an Emperor angel? The Stars and Stripe is about 4 inches and the emperor is about 4 inches. The other tank members would be 3 gobys and a lawnmower blenny and ...

I have a 5inch stars and stripes puffer, 2 fire goby's, 1 bicolry blenny,1lawnmower blenny and a foxface about 4inchs. how big of a QT tank would I need?

The LFS said I could drop the salinity raise the heat and add 2 big air stones. They said if I raised the heat for 2 weeks it would kill it and I wouldn't need to drop the salinity past 16

what do you mean?

Please don't raise the temp for treating SW "ich". The parasite attacks their gills & it'll be hard enough for them to breath, never mind lessening the O2 content when you raise the heat in there. H=For hypo you must have the SG at 1.009. You're not doing this in your main tank, are y...

Thanks JP I went and joined I'm currently doing the hypo salinity for ick cause it was so rampant in my display tank I was going to lose everything if I didn't do something so I thought why not. So far I haven't lost anything else. and my stars and stripes puffer doesn't show any new spots. my heat ...

Btw, is it true that bristle worms are not supposed to be eaten by puffers? I ask because a gluttonous dogface we had at the store when I was a pet shop associate loved them, he'd slurp them down fast as any earthworm, but he was the only one we had that ever touched them. I am still nervous to fee...

I have what looks like flat cocoons or a wolf spiders web on 2 of my rocks. Does anyone know what this could be? someone said it may be a bristle worm cocoon but I can't find any picture on web of that to see if that is what it is or not?

She was a good fish... My beautiful Striped Dog face Puffer committed suicide. I couldn't find her yesterday when I went to feed them before the swap but thought maybe she was pouting cause I was late feeding them. But, I moved rocks and never found her. So today I was looking again and I climbed be...

You give me inspiration. I bought the cleaner wrasses to help with the ich but never eliminated it. Just controlled it. I may try this in the future.

Yep that's a Dog face in it's blue stage. Congrats. and it will probably stay that color since they usually don't change stages in aquarium life. He/she was probably captured in that stage. Probably older guy/gal. Beautiful!

My Striped Dog Face is named Elegance due to the silver grey color and the stripes and how "she" looks while swimming
My Stars and Stripes is named Joey (by my son) after my cousin who is in the army in afghanistan.

I found a couple more of the blue to yellow phase. http://www.wetwebmedia.com/TetraodontiformPIX/PufferPIX/Tetraodontidae/Arothron%20nigropunctatus/Arothron%20nigropunctatus%20WAK.jpg http://www.wetwebmedia.com/.../04nigropunctatus.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3115/2727838911_102f7b8139.jpg?v=...

Dog faces go through a blue phase and you said he was old. Maybe U lucked up and got one in the blue phase which is generally an older phase. If U did they tend to stay what ever color phase they are in when put into aquarium so he/she will probably stay that way. http://www.saltwateradvice.com/.../...