The Puffer Forum

Jealous! I'm planning a tank for a Figure 8 for next year.

I'm sure you'll be a great F8 momma!

Thank you for the kind words, guys. My husband is telling me the same thing, and deep down, I think I know that it's true. I'm just so upset. I spent five years researching and preparing for these little girls and to have two die right off the bat is just crushing. I'm praying that the three left wi...

Oh my God... I am so, so sorry for your loss. That is just terrible. My eyes are welling up just thinking about it. I would be on the phone with the company and on hold as they push the call up the chain of authority. There is just no excuse for what happened. They need to pay for damages to the dwe...

If you have a decent hardware store nearby, you can make a DIY water changer very easily.

My husband (NOT a handy man!) put one together for me at half the price of a Python, and it works great.

Thanks for your input! I do only plan on using plants that others have confirmed to do well in brackish. Your advice lines up well with what I researched. Several folks said that the plants seem to shed off all, or almost all of their leaves and grow anew as they adjust. I'll keep the snips handy. I...

I put her down. I'm still so distraught, but I felt a strange sense of relief as she stopped trying to right herself in the water and simply drifted off to sleep. I couldn't see her like that. I feel like I've failed, but I'm happy that I had the means to put her to rest so that she didn't have to s...

Sounds reasonable. I can work on setting up the planted tank and go brackish over the next year, and then drip the F8 when/if I ever do obtain it.

Thanks, RTR.

Okay, freaking out... freaking out... freaking out! I just turned the tank lights on and she is literally doing somersaults and twisting and flipping around in the water and just crazy in general. Then, she'll stop and swim normally for a minute or so. A few moments later and she's back to flipping ...

She is now refusing live foods. I can see that her stomach is definitely becoming more pinched, whereas it didn't seem too terrible when I first got her. It's clear to me now that getting her to ingest meds is going to be a losing battle. I read the sticky up on the top of this forum about the levam...

Just wanted to toss in an update. I've been doing a lot of research on brackish planted tanks and I'm going to give it a shot. I have the tank set up now and I'm going to scape it and grow it out with some of the better known brackish-tolerant species. I'm reading that one of the keys to making a br...

This may not work with all sands, but I use a method that has zero "kick-up" when placing pool filter sand into a tank already filled with water. Basically, you get a soda bottle (I used a 2 liter, but I think something smaller would work just as well.) and fill it with your sand. Slowly l...

I just wanted to let you know that Camille has really inspired me to work toward a goal of having a simple SW tank for one of the Fijis or a Hawaiian toby in the distant future.

I find them so beautiful, and your tank setup is just very stunning in its simplicity. I love it a lot.

I absolutely do not have the mind of a scientist.

I basically take RTR's words as gospel.

The man knows what he's doing.

suvattii2012 wrote:would you leave the filter on while your putting more sand in?

Not unless you hate your impeller.

hey thanks, its actually dry rock thats slowly starting to color up with pink/purple/greens. I'm not balling enough to afford 60lb's of live rock, so I have one good sized chunk of bali rock in there to seed 50lbs of marco rocks key largo dry rock. the tank has been going strong for 4 months or so ...