The Puffer Forum

Puffer ich can look a little different. It generally starts on their body instead of fins. Even if it's not ich, the salt treatment could help. Salt is used for a wide variety of things such as fungus. Also, you're saying it can't be ich because you haven't added anything to his tank, but ich can ha...

Just wanted to chime in and say that it really can take quite a while for corals to "liven up" (as you already read). So, I guess just be patient and occasionally try and feed it at night. Good luck.

The advice you've been given is good. I just wanted to say that you can sometimes find puffers on aquabid.com, if you have the money for shipping. I really think you should get at least two more puffers, because they're very nervous without tankmates of their own species most of the time. However, r...

I'm pretty sure dragon gobies prefer it much lower than that. Not only do they prefer a lower SG, but he probably won't do well with the puffer. They also require like 30 gallons themselves so you're quite overstocked here. They don't have good eyesight, so therefore have a harder time finding food...

Figured that's what they were.

You may wanna start offering more variety, too. Vitamin deficiency is really bad. Also, you can feed smaller portions, too.

It really depends on if you wanna stay with fresh water or go to brackish and possibly marine.

In regards to your first question, look up pineapple sponges. If that doesn't seem to look like your things, maybe Copepods and/or Amphipods.

Sorry for your loss. Work on buying everything you need, like a liquid testing kit (no strips, bad readings) and making sure your tank is properly cycled. You want 0 ammonia, and 0 nitrite and you want to get an actual nitrate reading to know it's cycled. The process will go like this. You tank will...

sw10mm wrote:Fish and shrimp both came from my brother n law he breeds the guppies as feeders and buy the sjrimp in bulk to. Gut load them the white fish was frozen for 10 days at --20*

How are you thawing the frozen items? I'm only asking because it actually makes quite a difference for your puffer.

Okay, and were the shrimp quarantined and was the fish you fed fresh and alive, or frozen?

sw10mm wrote:He's in a 50 gal for now setting up my 200 gallon Saturday have to get old fish out first the 50 gal is temp for my 3 inch friend for two weeks...

You can't convert to brackish with those other fish. You will need to remove the other fish or put him in his own 30+ gallon tank. You will need to increase the salinity by only .002 per week. Make sure the tank is fully cycled before this or else you will just wind up crashing your entire tank and ...

A lot of puffers prefer to be alone.

Can't really say how his water quality is or isn't unless you provide us with results. We need ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, and salinity.

You don't mean breeding them in the same tank with the fahaka, do you?

Also, when you defrosted the blood worms, what water did you use?

sgtmyers88 wrote:And welcome back NG have not seen you in a while.

Thanks. I was just kinda burnt out on fish and fish keeping for a while.