The Puffer Forum

Pufferpunk wrote: ↑Sat Feb 09, 2019 12:04 pm I would think so since they share names!

Yeah lmao. It's because they live in the same area of the Congo and were both discovered by Henri Schouteden. Similarly, there is a Tetraodon Duboisi and a Tropheus Duboisi

Bbaptist1020 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 10, 2019 7:40 pm You said you use gravel because of the snails, I have gravel over potting soil. Is this ok in my 55 gallon puffer tank?

Yeah definitely. Just make sure to use a species that has small babies and doesn't eat live plants. Mystery snails work well.

My Duboisi and Miurus both interact with me and swim up to the glass when I come by even though they are ambush hunters. I think it's because I usually hand feed them. If you don't want a puffer that's stationary or needs plant-eating snails, I would really recommend T. Miurus, T. Duboisi, or P. Abe...

LOL, Schoutedeni is the Congo spotted puffer he's referring to. ;) Yeah sorry I thought that might be confusing. Synodontis Schoutedeni is a species of Synodontis catfish, Tetraodon Schoutedeni is the spotted Congo puffer. I'm saying that the Schoutedeni catfish would be the best out of its family ...

If you were going to go for a Synodontis I would recommend S. Schoutedeni. Most Synodontis require a very fast water flow, and African puffers (especially T. Schoutedeni) are not the most agile swimmers. S. Schoutedeni is fine with a weaker flow though, and not very territorial as for as Synodontis ...

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Brackish opens up a lot more possibilities for what you're looking for, my recommendation would be a Ceylon puffer

I personally haven’t tried rams but I’d say proceed with caution. The main reason for this is that they’re generally smaller than the puffers, so they may look more tempting and a bite could do more damage.

How did you treat your fish and what medication did you use?

csduck17 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 03, 2019 5:47 am Wetspot has them for sale.

Huh did not expect that. It’ll probably look a little small in a 65g tank but if you like them then go for it.

Hello all, I’m wondering if anyone can identify what this brown, kinda fuzzy stuff on my spiderwood is. I looked online but I didn’t see anything too similar, but I’m thinking it could be fungus or mold. It comes off whenever I move the wood and makes a huge mess, so I’d like to know what it is so I...

LOL, OK I was confused, too. I guess it would be best to observe the puffer 1st but of course, good luck finding one already at a shop. Know anything about a Pao palustris? I can't seem to find much information about them. Yeah I’d be really really surprised if you found one, and like Pufferpunk sa...

The pea puffers would probably nip at the amazons. I would keep a group of just amazons, and you could add either a mid sized pleco or some large, fast, peaceful characins

Hmmm to be frank I'm not 100 percent sure, but you would probably need to drill a hole. What you COULD do though is put the sump physically higher than the main tank and have a pump move the tank water to the sump, then have a hole in the sump for it to fall back into the tank. That would be the opp...

And for a tank that size I prefer a sump as it greatly reduces maintenance, but if you really want a canister filter the fx4 would be sufficient and PROBABLY quieter. e I see what you mean, how do you calculate the carious volume then? such as flow rate out of the tank to the sump, the required siz...