The Puffer Forum

Phil, I don't think she's constipated, I think she's not dumping because she isn't eating. Fahakas have a pretty fast metabolism, I found the food turnaround time to be about 24 hours, so if she isn't eating, she's got nothing to dump out. I fed her Friday, the day before you picked her up and she d...

Well, after reading Annabelles' plight and the recommendation about worming every 3-4 months, I decided that I'd grab some Ultra Cure PX and do a pre-emptive strike on Ting-Ting. I just got the meds and was wondering the best way to dose. My plan is to thaw a shrimp, dry it and then soak it in meds ...

My previous Fahaka, Mother got me while I was hand feeding an obviously too small shrimp. She was about 11" at the time, she got my right index finger, through the nail and just clipped the bone. How did it feel? Take a nail and drive it through your fingernail and finger and you've got the gen...

your puffer is tiny atm your tank is over filtered! i have a community 8x3 with a 2" mbu and about 70-80 tetras etc with a 2999 wet dry + 2080 with 2x turnover of tank volume p/h and this should be adequate unt5il the mbu is at least 12-14" sothe rate your on fahaka will be set up for lif...

Just curious as to what you think. I've got a Fahaka, currently about 4", in a 180 gallon tank with 5 Tiger Barbs. My filtration is a 40 gallon wet/dry with about 20 gallons of water and 7 gallons of small bio-ball, powered by an AC 802 powerhead, running about 450GPH, a Fluval 404 with 2 chamb...

Just out of curiousity, did you get it from TNT Aquatics? If so, you'll be the 4th or 5th person here that did. I got my 2 incher about 2 months ago, set it up in a 20 long for quarantine for a couple of weeks and then put it into it's lifetime 180 gallon tank. It's amazingly non-shy, from day one c...

Hi all Im the middle of setting up a tank for my new fahaka and i would like to set it up as close to it's natural condition's as possible, all the book's i have looked at state open water and bank zone's of river's so im guessing at lots of water worn rock's and possibly roots hanging into the wat...

hmm thats interesting. I asked grubbster to add his two cents in on this as well for his puffer. If his gh and kh are lower like yours I would be interested to see if i got mine down to those levels if he would show his colors more. I have been noticing this last week that he is getting more red so...

Lastly since you tank is acrylic do you really want a pleco that will clean the glass? They do have teeth and will definately scratch the inside of your tank. Excellent point! I had a friend the bought a nice big (450 gallon) acrylic tank brand spanking new. He transfered his fish over into it, inc...

yeah my gh is over 180 and my kh is over 240. my test kit only goes that high and it hit those colors imediatly. my ph is 7.5-8.0 ish I have a hard time reading the colors when they are that close. they never change from those and all my tanks are that way. what are yours? thanks for the link to ta...

is that just the flash or is he that light? mine is that light to most of the time....not all of us can have dark beautiful colored fahakas like you....haha Maybe I'm just lucky but mine, at 3" is a beautiful dark color. I wish I had a camera to post pics. It's not substrate in my case either,...

sounds like your water locally isnt great. Mine comes out about 6-6.4 after 24 hours to let chlorine desolve. If i were you i would think about a RO system hopefully then you can gauentee the ph wont change over time. RO man do some good small system. Let me know how you get on Yeah, my local water...

Could you could make home made cichlid buffer with just baking soda, calcium carbonate powder, and epsom salt, save even more money? Yes but I haven't been able to find calcium chloride as easily as the marine salt. I have a friend that owns a pet store that sells salt water fish and he gives me th...

Wouldn't using a cichlid buffer mineral tonic be better tan an epsom/marine salt mix? More of the stuff you want, less of what you don't? It's essentially a home-made version of the same thing but at a much lower price. I did a LOT of research on this before I decided to try it. Here's a really goo...

If after 48 hours ph drops to 7.2 thats fine. Its a lot better in the long run for your fish to adapt to the ph than face the possibilty of spikes / using chemicals in the long term! The drop to 7.2 isn't the problem, that's actually the good part. It comes from my tap at 9.0. The problem is that w...