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Thanks for your votes everyone! Wilbur was a special puffer.

If you haven't read my thread about him, here is the link http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/vie ... =6&t=12382

Hi everyone, I haven't been around in awhile because I've been feeling pretty "blah" About three weeks ago, my Valentini Wilbur died. He was fine in the morning but when I got home from work he was sucked into the powerhead :'( (which I now have a cover over so that won't happen again) Its...

They looks like GSPs to me

Sunnypoo is lovely!

Last night we took him out of his tank and put him in a little container and my boyfriend opened his gill and now it's working fine. He sad it seemed like it was scabbed closed... or like there was a layer of film keeping it closed. So yea it's open now, and he's doing good, so we're just going to ...

UGF = Under Gravel Filter

I wouldn't use CO2, I've heard many stories about dosing too much and killing fish. I don't know if it would affect puffers more than other fish or not but I wouldn't use it, easier to just do it the low tech way.

Jase wrote:

SpockthePuffer wrote:Lovely puffer, have you named him?

fishytyke wrote:she had been very well cared for but was getting too large for their tank, her name is sushi (he did once have a community tank, but this guy likes the taste of raw fish )

Oh hush up Jase! I have a cold and am all hopped up on meds

Lovely puffer, have you named him?

He looks good. Keep on testing the water. If gravel and filter media are moved from the 20gallon you should be alright with the cycle.

Have you tested the water in the 10 gallon yet? If you added filter media, decorations and some of the gravel from the cycled tank it should be pretty much cycled. You might have a mini cycle and need to do a water change though. After you test the water and make sure that the tank is cycled you can...

Pufferpunk wrote:Why can't they write those things in "English"?

my brain shut off and my eyes glossed over after the first four words, lol Science is not my strongest subject, thats why I'm in art school

What about how hard people say it is to clean before it goes into the tank? Also isn't it harder to clean? I "think" with the aragonite I'd be able to vac like I do with the gravel but not with sand right? You kind of have to put the gravel vac close to the sand but not close enough to su...

yeah me neither!

I'm from CT but I don't live there anymore so I wouldn't know, lol