The Puffer Forum

Mussels are said to contain thiaminase which can cause a vitamin b1 defficiency but other foods like snails and cockles don't appear to. It's not bad to feed mussels, they are a good food, i just wouldn't recommend them as a staple.

1. Crushed coral and aragonite sand are both forms of calcium carbonate so both will do the same job it's just that you might have to work a bit harder on tank maintenance if you use the larger grained crushed coral. Unfortunately i don't know how much is needed to cover your base but the packaging ...

Yeah cycle in fresh and then up the salinity a little during your 1st water change.

Gut loading just means that you feed your live food with good nutritious, and vitamin rich stuff like spirulina based foods.

Hello migitymke, it sounds more like a fungal infection.

Could you post a picture and also answer the questions in red above please?

Your tank would also be a good size for a T Fluviatilis especially if you are talking imperial gallons. The difference between the 2 species though is the salinity requirements, you will probably end up running in full marine with a T Fluviatilis rather than low brackish with a T Biocellatus. Let us...

If anything will make him eat live brine shrimp will, i say give it a go to get some weight on him.

It's great to see posts from new members, and obviously the more, the merrier but I can't get my head around why someone would go to the trouble of registering and then slag everyone off within the first couple of posts. I'm not suprised that offence was taken because name-calling doesn't tend to wa...

I found this paper on researchgate.net: Spawning of eight Southeast Asian brackish and freshwater puffers of the genera Tetraodon and Carinotetraodon in captivity Hiroyuki Doi · Harumi Sakai · Yusuke Yamanoue · Takayuki Sonoyama · Toshiaki Ishibash There's a bit on the Figure 8 but essentially they ...

I saw that on a BBC documentary a couple of years ago, it's absolutely amazing what that little fish can do

My Fig 8 has always swam to the front when i come into the room. I recently added some Mollies and they just went about their own business until the food landed in the tank. Now when i walk into the room all of the fish swim to the top right corner of the tank waiting to be fed, it took about a mont...

You appear to have a bee in your bonnet Puffthemagicdragon? I offered the only info. I could give, i buy the only vitamin that my local shop sells - I don't know the name (the text has faded) but I'm pretty sure that it changes near enough every time I go in to get a new bottle, I don't know how muc...

I just buy the only one that my LFS sells and squeeze enough out to coat the food, then leave it to marinate for a bit.

Your puffer would become an expensive snack....

Unfortunately water changes don't cycle a tank, you need an ammonia source to cycle and it usually takes about a month to build up the necessary bacteria in your filter to convert ammonia to nitrite and then nitrite to nitrate. You will need to change water daily at the moment until you can either r...