The Puffer Forum

we are moving house in 8 months where i will be changing over to a 6ft tank which i have ready, think i may have found a new home for the dog face too

I have a yellow tang, 2 clowns, topaz puffer and a few gobys, oh and around 30 hermit crabs

so how fast do they grow?

Hey all, poped into a local shop today to grab some food and saw a jet black dog faced puffer about 2" who looked very stressed out and was being pushed around by a cleaner wrasse (bluestreak), I couldnt help myself and brought him home with me lol. Anyway he loves his new tank and seams to be ...

Snails do need light, with no light in the tank you are not going to get much build up of algae for them to eat, you can get food for them but thee more natural the better, they do like apple though lol

yes its a full setup, anything less and apple's will die off, you will need to do a good hover of the tank every week as they poo alot too lol

for food you cant go wrong with getting 4 apple snails, they breed like mad. I have 4 in a 4 gal tank and they lay their eggs about twice a month which keeps me with loads of snails to feed my Topaz with........ Dead easy to look after too

Hi, Not sure about listing this on here but i have a femail guppie who had around 12 new fry during the night, for the day before she gave birth she was acting very strainge. she swam about with her head pointing down, she stayed like this when i popped her into the fry tank too, this morning after ...

Hey all,

Have any of you had any joy with your puffers in a tank with clown's?

I have my little Topaz puffer together with 4 Clown fish who get on great, bit of bossing around by the clown's at first but now they are all one hunting gang, he even host's some of the soft coral's with then.

Gaz

using a nutrafin kit, instant ocean and tap water approx 7,

what sg level is the taank water?

Hi Everyone!!! I have started to get a red algae around my tank, i have also found today that my PH is approx 9.2 I have a feather duster tube worm in the tank which seams to have a large dust of the algae over it too along with the rock and glass. I have done a 50% water change today and removed mo...

oh yer, how many could i have in this size tank, stick to 1 or 2?

just for confirmation the filter which came with the tank is new so has never been used in any water

Hello all, Only just joined lol I have brought a 40 gal (US) today, filter, heater, air pump etc........ £60 second hand but looks like new I am getting a Ceylon puffer when the tank is cycled. I have been told that these puffer love a high salt level and spoke to a chap last week who keeps his at 1...