The Puffer Forum

thanks sevenyearnight, I almost forgot about the affects of increasing the salt on the other fish. When I started the salt, i tried researching what the affects would be but could not find anything. Now from what you have said I think I have killed them with salt..... pufferpunk, I have not been rud...

pufferpunk I fail to see what value you are adding and think you time could be better spent watching the nature channel. survival of the fittest has nothing to do with why predatory fish eat other fish, it is a term used for the same species and is why the weaker will make way to the stronger..... I...

Pufferpunk, one of the fish that died had something on his eye. Some of the 'ulcers' were much bigger than bites and not uniform. Sometimes the loss of colour in the affected area was gradual, ruling out a bite. no other fish were affected. I doubt my puffers picked on just 1 species. Its all just v...

auto, I have had the same fish in there for about 1.5 years so think stocking is fine. they all seem to get on fine. scpion, as you guessed the plants all died which I expect with the salt levels. don't really want to move fish as it would stress the gsp's. thats why i figure I can vacuum it all out...

sick fox.JPG Hi, The hard facts. These numbers are as of today and pretty average for my tank and do not vary much, except the Nitrate which is sometimes about 40. Gh = 180, Kh = 210 pH = 7.0, Nitrite = 0, Nitrate = 80 (little high but working on it) salinity = 1.010 tank size is 240 litres, about ...

Thanks Pufferpunk, He has never really had a white belly. I have 2 GSP's who started out the same size. The big one has grown about 3 times in size and most often has a dark belly as you can see. The other one has only grown about 1.5 times and always has a white belly, see attached photo! Its kinda...

Just a quick update! My GSP is now back to his normal self and eating / behaving normally again! Just wanted to thank the forum members for your valuable advice! His diet now has weekly worms which are his new favourite, he practically eats them whole! I will be installing a new pump to help with fi...

He's a gsp as far as I know! Got some positive feedback I wanted to share with everyone as a thank you! He was looking sluggish again today but gave him some blood worms which he chomped! also threw in some feeder shrimp which at first he ignored but has just been chasing a few around! not there yet...

Hi again and thanks for your responses!
Nitrate is down to 40, did a large water change today. GSP still not eating but looking more active.
thanks for that file conversion link pufferpuggirl, worked a charm!

please see his bottom teeth and let me know what you all think?
thanks

Hi again, puffer is slightly happier today but still not eating. did another water change, ph is 7.5, no nitrites and nitrates are down to about 50-60. I did not realise I could do such large daily water changes, will up it tomorrow. is there any potential harm with such large water changes? checked...

thanks for all your replies and yes sorry, forgot to mention the ammonia, its 0. Appreciate my tank is over stocked and plan to remove most of the other fish during the change over to brackish. oh gosh darn, ma! they are hard to catch! why would my nitrate be so high then? I normally do a weekly wat...

Stressful times! Hi members, The hard facts. These numbers are as of today and pretty average for my tank and do not vary much, except the Nitrate which is sometimes about 40. Gh = 180, Kh = 240 pH = 7.0, Nitrite = 0, Nitrate = 80 salinity = 1.003 tank size is 240 litres, about 60 gallons with CO2 i...