The Puffer Forum

i plan on keeping them in the qt tank for at least a month, is there anything i should really be looking for before i put them into the main tank, i will see if i can find the solution to dip them before i put them in the final home...

So in order to up my snail population i have been buying some plants for my planted tank and i figured i may try some plants in "Little Deuce's" tank... the baby fahaka's tank... somewhere a long time ago i read about a solution that you dip the plants into to make sure there is nothing on...

Shaner, RTR you both make interesting points. However I still think since we get a lot of the same style questions here on the board. We should document the info we know either in one long pdf or a goodle doc we can keep updated and build from that. Ideal foods Best food practices How much is to mu...

You do NOT want to cook their food! Often makes it indigestible for them & cooks out a lot of nutritional value. keep in mind tho crab legs and claws that we recommend on this site are cooked when one buys them... i was just stating that in general if you are concerned heat will kill bacteria, ...

I have an oriental market not to far from me. They have literally tons and tons of fish brought in. They have clams and crayfish most of the time. So my question becomes how can I treat/be sure the food is safe to give the puffers? I don't want any wild diseases or bacteria to enter the system and ...

Don't forget that Fahakas do outgrow most commonly cultured snails. At full size you are going to need fish market support. yep, that is where the PEI mussels and green lip mussels come into play, that is the support, have a great store for those items... just want to make sure i have a good base f...

fair enough, i will keep the trend to snails and making their diet what i want for little fahaka and other stuff... i work on structural steel, i have work on the steel for lambeu field, Mall of America, numerous power plants duct work, really big stuff.... the MoMo building in Chi was fun, huge bea...

so i am a welder fabricator and while i am welding i always have thoughts.... if we feed puffers, in my case SW PEI Mussles and green lip mussels (for achmed, little guy cant quite get thru the shell) and that was his main diet then he would have gotten the nutrients of mostly SW variety, which if h...

I occasionally used to give mine red clawed crabs, they are cheap and hardy. I would swerve the krill as it has a link to lockjaw in puffers really? as in lots of krill or even just some amount to keep a diet balanced? interesting.... what i am really trying to do is find a good balance of nutritio...

thanks pufferpunk, yep that is what i meant not hermit's, fiddlers....

well it has been two weeks yesterday for the new Fahaka.... we are thinking of calling him "Deuce"... rolls off the tongue nicely.... i have him on a diet of bloodworms, clams, mussels and he ate a small pond snail that i have in my 36 that has been eating fairly good, i am in the process ...

I still think that I over-feed. But I am learning... i have to say if you thing you are still overfeeding then i know i am by a mile...so i am very cautious now... i have a 45 pound dog, he gets 3 cups of his kibble every day, once a day, he is very active runs around all crazy and stuff and he is ...

alright will gave that a go also... i guess i am at a point in this hobby where i feel i have the water parameters controlled to the best of my ability, stable, temp, WC's on a very reg basis, no funky chemicals etc... just the pure water that i can have... so now i am at a point in the hobby where ...

thats a new one for me also... well as it sits, i am trying to not overfeed by anymeans with this new little guy, i have been able to mix it up a little with him, bloodworms, clams and some mussels...little bites of course the GSP's that i have had for over 5 years now are enjoying the new diet also...

most awesome reply RTR, thank you so much for your insight, i will certainly take your words and implement a few changes on things that i have been doing wrong... thank you again, i will keep studying and trying to find more information, one is as good as the amount of info one can find...