The Puffer Forum

Would a congo puffer like a high flow tank or would they prefer low mine has changed alot in his personality since he went into the larger tank and i was wondering if it could be lack of flow?

Theres no poop at all i assume since he hasnt eaten when he was eating there was always some that i had to remove from the tank. and he dosent look sunk in at all.

No i havent he has never been willing to eat it before but ill try it

its a 45 gallon Cube i used the water from his Old tank and added new all my reading are noraml range. Ammonia is reading 0 ppm and Nitrate is rading 5.0 but this is just a water sample held to the card i dont have digital meters He is alone in the tank minus 1 guppy i put in to see if he would eat....

I have had my congo for over a year and he has been eating frozen food for probably about 8 months. I swaped out his tank about 4 weeks ago and he will not eat anything now he ate one Live ghost shrimp about a week ago but nothing else. I am afraid he is going to starve since he was eating a large s...

Will a Congo puffer be fine in tannin stained water or would he be better without it?

about 2 inches long

Just the tail? I have tried garlic but maybe not enough. He refuses earthworms tried them for over 2 weeks having htem in the tank daily he jsut swims over them. He eats daily i normaly try to feed when hes out hunting tho which sometimes freaks him out and ends the hunt. unlike others i ahve seen m...

People Shrimp? Full size or cut up? I have had FD Krill in there on a string flowing about 4 inches above the surface in the filter streaming changing them often to keep them from messing with water and he totaly ignores them its like hes spoiled on Life shrimp and will starve before eating anything...

Cant seem to get my guy to eat anything other then Ghost shrimp and some times feeders tried all the methods in the feeding guide on the site and he just wont take to it has anyones else had a real problem with getting to congo on other foods and if so what did u do that finnaly worked.

How do u feed crickets they would jsut float on the top wouldnt they? or do they sink and gain instrest trying to swim back up

Thanks for the Responses and very fast ones at that :) ill keep working with him didnt know it would take so long for him to get used to his tank im normaly around reg freshwater fish and salt tanks so this guys way diff. But jsut to be sure it is good to leave his tank bare or should i add more pla...

Thanks for the welcome and the replies. :) He is in a 30Gal Tank with pool filter sand as the substrate as far as plants hes got 2 young amazon swords a white ribon and afew java ferns the tank is very bare because i was having issues with him seeing the food so no he has no hiding spot other then t...

Had my guy for about 3 weeks now hes about 2 inches he will only eat Ghost shrimp and sometimes the guppies i have been breeding he wont touch worms or crabs or mussels and he seems to get rly scared and stressed easily and he will charge back and forth at the glass jumping out of the water and wont...