The Puffer Forum

I am currently taking my time without any fish to do some aquascaping and establishing a good plant base. I am completely new to aquarium plants. I recently built a hood for my 55 gallon and am looking at my lighting situation. As an electrician by trade I have the parts on hand to make built in lig...

Sad day. Today my little Turgidus died. He was doing so much better until last night. He wasnt moving very much and when I woke up he was laying on my heater, burning his underside badly. I stopped off and picked up some Melafix on my.way home from work, but he was already hone when I got home.

I got home from work for lunch today and found my puffer out swimming and hunting for snails for the first time ever. So excited. Hoping I wont have to force feed anymore!

First of, thank you for doing research before jumping into it. That being said, puffers tend to be pretty high maintenance but are very addictive and worth all of the work in the end. A GSP is a pretty hardy puffer and is most everyones first puffer. A big move like that could be done, though it wou...

I am having the same problem with my Turgidus as far as not touching food. I have been force feeding him earrhworms for a week now.

I can do that. Earthworms are easy to come by and cheap lol. I was just giving him what I had until I can get to the store for some Vitamins. Thank you for the help.

A quick update. After trying to find everything, I got the material together to make a tube feeder and started force feeding a mixture of earthworm, beefheart, and brine shrimp for filler. I have started noticing his color is starting to lighten up and he is coming out more at night. Planning on con...

As long as the skin remains moist and there is plenty of O2 in the water, they will survive.

Maybe he would had someone not insulted him. For shame I say smackbum . JK, but don't be so quick to judge.

I dont see what you mean by high maintenance. The salt just wipes off the gaurd with a damp towel. Work done.

I really dont have a problem with my bio-wheel 350 in my FOWLR tank. just scrape the salt off the hood when i do a wc

The AP test kits are the same from fw to sw. The color cards are all that differ. As long as you have both sets of cards, you only have to buy one test kit for all.

I shall try getting some

no plants 1.016 s.g.

cant get purigen around here, any alternatives?

the power is tan, the cloudyness is white. walls around the tank is covered in a wood paneling.