The Puffer Forum

im wondering if feeding my puffers mussel will be giving them enough range of nutrients (plus whatever they pick off the liverock)

they only seem to want to eat mussels! there is all different kinds of 'meat' in the mussel, so i wonder if mussels alone will be giving them what they need?

that really sux think green!

couldnt find blackworms so i went to the supermarket. they went crazy for bits of fresh mussel. also bought an octopus to try that too! i guess they just dont like prawns or plankton? lol

papuan tank has morphs, zoas (dying from zoa pox), and some random LPS and SPS corals that were hitchhikers. valentini tank has some zoas i moved there to try and save from the pox, and some kind of leather coral i think that was another hitchhiker. had the puffers for a week now and they havent rea...

and the papuan tank has been running six months now, the valentini tank 2-3 months. cycled with liverock.

going to make me bust out the old test kits eh ;) papuan tank ... 130L with a large mantis shrimp and a 2" jewel damsel salinity -1.0256 temp -26C NH4 -0 NO2 -0 NO3 -10 pH -7.9 i do about a 20% water change weekly. i have been adding some seachem additives to keep the alk up, and trace elements...

papuan and valentini

my puffers seem to have no interest in food at all? tried flakes, pellets, plankton, bits of prawn... they seem very happy and active, bright, flaring their tails and playing in the powerhead flow... and are quite fat. could it be there is still enough benthic fauna and flora in my tank to keep them...

lol camera ran out of battery before i could snap my valentini thanks for the kind words will post my valantini soon

some shots of my papuan toby

hmm that sux. poor little guys does anyone know what causes the zoa pox?

a skimmer is handy for sure, but this tank is going to have to manage without one.

very interesting read thanks

i have no skimmer on the tank, so can i try vitamin C at a lower concentration?

unfortunately in australia furan is illegal i have been trying freshwater dips in iodine, it might just finish off the poor zoas but then again it might just work?

probably cant tell from the pics, but the liverock was intorduced gradually and built up into a complex maze of caves and tunnels, which makes it a bit hard cos the food just dissapears into the abyss. i have a damsel in there as well, which just nails the food. but the papuan is kinda shy and slow ...

well i have some problems with the puffer in the reef tank ! i dont really care if he destroys the place, but with the high flow, lots of liverock its hard to get the food to him. he also seems only interested in food if it floats past his nose... the other problem is just how messy they are!! i had...