The Puffer Forum

My corys bred again a few weeks ago, and I was lucky enough to walk by the tank to see the eggs. Five hatched and have survived and are living in a breeding mesh. The problem is that one of them is less than a quarter of an inch long while the others are way over half an inch long. They dwarf her. S...

What a rollercoaster of a thread. I'm glad your fish remembered how to eat. Truly. These little finned beauties. If they only knew.

Good for you! And for her!

Thank you all so much. Cally (Ichtys) died yesterday morning. She would not eat no matter the type of food or the atmosphere given. I think, in the end, that her nose was so damaged that she couldn't detect food. She hung on for six weeks, and I did all I could. It was actually quite emotional, lett...

If she can hang on, I'll see if I can find these. This evening, I managed to get a bloodworm into her mouth and she swallowed. If I can get something into the water, then at least she'll be inhaling it. I even thought of getting the partner to Zoecon, Zoe, because it would be in the water proper. I ...

Update - This is just crazy. I haven't see her eat for three weeks. She's only 4 inches long including her fins, so I ask, could she be eating after I turn out the lights? Otherwise, how is this possible? Husbandthing bought me some Zoecon, which I'm soaking her blood worms in along with the Garlic ...

Thanks. It's hard because there's so much uneaten food. I'm doing water changes every other day.

I haven't. With the storms here it's going to be until tomorrow until I can get to Tacoma for good foods. If the store has live bloodworms, I'll try them, as she's not eating a thing. I honestly don't know what to do. I'm actually putting the food in her mouth and she won't swallow.

I have a 75 gallon freshwater community South American tank with corys, hoplos, plecos, otos (I cheated on this species), Lemon tetras, hatchetfish, etc. etc. Anyway, my poor female callichthys got a bump on her nose and it steadily got worse. Now, she's in a hospital tank with a fairly neutral ph a...

OK. I'm writing all this down. But, I do have another question. As the tank is completely live planted with a ton of anacharis (it's so pretty, all zigzagged for much hiding room), would plant "goop" be decent waste to add to a cycle or not? I have some plant decay in it. I am wondering, s...

As I get more into this website, I don't want to ask questions that have already been answered; but I'm not sure if trimming a dwarf puffer's teeth has been addressed. If so, please show me the link, if not, will this be something I should become aqquainted with before buying my 3 little puffers? I ...