The Puffer Forum

I have a pair of F8 puffers, I just noticed that there are small baby apple snails that I found in a plated tanks, must of come from some new plants that I placed in the tank. can I feed them to my puffers?

I do mega changes with my africans and the same thing they stay in the tank, 80% is not uncommon, wish I had more time to do 25% changes a few times a week but I don't so I do a 80 % change every 2 weeks and it works very well I also have a ton of filtration somewhere in the 15X per hour range and d...

Get a python water change system or a simular product and keep your hands out of the tank and save your back the pain of hualing buckets. Leave the fish in the tank for anything less then a mega water change 80% or more, I sometime here of people pulling saltwater fish out during water changes no su...

if you are done with the snail do you really care? you can keep snail in light BW, a good way is to make the water really hard then use a little less salt, the crab will enjoy the hardwater and make up for the lower salinity

Just sharing info, never know when someone is going to be looking for a place to buy a puffer, I just joined the board and read a ton of posts as they were all new to me

JUST FYI, Pet goods in Paramus NJ has about 6 types of fresh/BW puffers and 2 or 3 salt puffers for sale presently

Pet Shanty good shop OK prices but that have a good selection of fish both fresh and salt. They have fresh and salt puffers as of a week ago. Good quality of live stock health fish, I have bought a bunch of my cichlids there. The one in Scotch Plains, NJ NOT the Bayonne, NJ one, same family but the ...

Are Malaysian Trumpet Snail (MTS) a good feeder snail for small puffers (figure 8 is what I have in Mind), I seem to find a lot of conflicting info about MTS some say their shells are too thick and small puffers can eat them and in fact might break their teeth trying, other say they are great for pu...

Plecos can live quite well in low brackish water (don't expect them to breed) but I have kept plecos with my african cichlids for years (10+) my water contains 1 tablespoon of salt (mix of koshar salt, epson salt and baking soda) per gallon of water so around 1.004 SG, it is hard as a rock as there ...

Wouldn't the F8 puffer eat the ghost shrimp?

in fact I was looking to feed the puffer ghost shrimp found a LFS that sells them for a fair price as feeders

Pufferpunk great write up, thank for the good info, for food in the write up you have live food Crab, Crayfish, Shrimp where are you getting this items, LFS collecting wild items?

I read that but what frozen food has a hard shell? Is a krill or shrimp shell enough for their teeth, I seem to keep seeing that you need to feed snails at least weekly is this wrong, I am new to this so I am just looking for guidance

I am new to puffers but I read you need to feed them hard shelled food regulary how do people do this is it live food and if so where do you get it, I looked at the LFS and they have ghost shrimp but they are tiny and $0.80 each, I can get pond snails for $1.50 but they seem a bit large. I am lookin...

OK my wife has decided that she wants a puffer fish, I do not want to set up a salt tank so I decide to go fresh or brackish (been keeping african cichlids for 10 years a brackish tank is not that big of a jump. So now I have looked at the LFS and have 3 choices Tetraodon nigroviridis, Tetraodon bio...

Well after 15 years in the hobby I am ready to keep a puffer, well it is really my wife's fault she wants a puffer so the living room fish tank will be a puffer tank, I am not looking to start a salt tank now but a fresh or brackish tank is OK. I have found this site interesting and informitive, gla...