The Puffer Forum

Tank info. 78 deg. SG is 1.019 pH 8.3 , Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrates 0. 15-20 percent water changes are done every 2-3 weeks 150 gallon tank. With Protien skimmer. Tank mates pink tail triggerfish and 1 dogface puffer I had started feeding my niger triger about 1 week ago marine cuisine and the pu...

Crab meat, krill as treats. shrimp. squid, and scallops. every couple of days. all my fish have been eating this mixture for almost 2 years now.

Oh yeah his teeth are fine, He gets snails regulary along with shrimp with the shell still on. I was going to reach into the tank to get the piece of shrimp because it is as big around as my index finger and like i said maybe as long as 2 inches. But you know how they gobble stuff up he is super fas...

I have a porcupine puffer about 6 inches long, I fed him tuesday night and while I was cutting up the thawed shrimp with tail on type over the top of the tank like I always do. I dropped a piece of shrimp the tail end that was about 2 inches long, he usually gets the tail ends anyways to help keep h...

I know but he has been so good ever since I got him. Maybe now that he has grown up a bit he thinks the is the boss of the tank he is the only really aggressive fish in there 1 of my dogface puffs that I have in there is really laid back till there is food involved.

well I caught my pork puff chasing/ giving the uh you look pretty tasty, after my sebea clown's tail this morning doing my routine check/good morining to everyone. So I had to unthaw some food for him and feed him breakfast too. Litte brat I don't see how he could be so hungry i feed him till he has...

Oh I know not to freak him out just to see him do it. after the first time which was months ago, I just happened to be wearing a striped shirt came straight home to feed them before I had changed out of my work clothes for the day. I felt bad for him, so he got some extra food. I'm such a sap. lol

no it's not a specific color my mom had on a blue and white striped shirt on one day she had to put on a jacket so that she could come up to the tank to see him. I could go up and he was fine as soon as she tool one step to the tank zooooom off he would go. lol then yesterday I had a pink and silver...

:lol: I have a little guy about 5 inches long in a 125 with a dogface puff and a huge sebea clownfish. They all get along great. My porcupine does this silly thing though, if anyone comes up to the tank all calm and normal, even mommy :D with a shirt that has stripes on it especially horizontal he w...

I have a very friendly porc puffer that does the happy face swim/dance in the front of tank when I walk by or when I'm talking to my fish. lol Well my mom came over and she had on a stripped shirt and as soon as she got close to the tank he took off in a panic and hid on the bottom of the tank like ...

I'm sorry I must have said it in a way that sounds like I feed him frozen food, I thaw it out first, i was just saying I have tried to feed him both types of mussels the chopped up bits that make up the frozen cubes and the whole ones out of the shell. I would never feed any of my fish frozen food. ...

I'm very sorry for your loss, I have lost 2 porcupine puffers in the past looks to be about the same size if not smaller than your little guy. One had ick from the petstore I thought I could heal up and rescue, and the other cloudy eyes in a QT tank that had ideal water conditions. After about 3 day...

Well I have stopped feeding the little guy any bloodworms. Friday till sunday I offered him a variety of, squid, mysis, crab meat, marine cuisine, mussels that are frozen in cubes after I thaw it and whole out of the shell he took a bite at the mussels that were the frozen type( thawed) one morning ...

thanks again for your help with him.

Well thanks for the input on my little guys diet. But I have had him for 3 weeks and the blood worm and maybe a bit of krill is all I have ever been able to get him to eat. I have 2 other dogface puffers and they are hogs not picky and eat a variety every day of, krill, squid, shrimp with shell, ram...