The Puffer Forum

Alright its been a few weeks now and while i wasnt doing daily water changes ive been doing 80% water changes twice weekly. I have been giving the glass spot cleanings only and they are once a week maybe, and cleaned the filter once during week two because it was time. It was done in tank water duri...

ok, 50's daily till 0 nitrites. my kits should be in thurs. i will post on sun. jrc i dont understand why you would treat 30 galls for a water change when the only water that needs to be treated is the make up. the dosage is proportional to the new water chlorine content. teach me.

so should i reduce the sg or let it go now, perhaps im pushing to fast to go marine with them. im a puffer virgin. today i saw something unusual. while resting and colorful my puffer seemed to be choking or making motions like he was eating rapidly, then arched his back and seemed to be, what looked...

today i did a 50% water change. added 15 drops of genesis chlorine remover and decided to raise the sg .002, sg is now 1.008 nitrate 40 ppm, nitrite .5 ppm, kh 300 ppm, ph 7.0 7.5, ammonia 0. test for ammonia an nitrite are liquid all othe tests are dipstick. also added api stress zyme

I KEEP TWO GREEN SPOTTED PUFFERS IN A 29 GALL TANK WITH A SG OF 1.005. THEY ARE BOTH JUVIES, BOUT 2'' TO 3'' AND WELL FED. HOB FILTER AQUACLEAR 70. WATER QUALITY IS OK TANK HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED FOR 9 MONTHS. MARINE SAND SUBSTRATE 1-2'' THICK WITH LITTLE DECOR.WEEKLY WATER CHANGES 15 to 20% AND VACUU...