The Puffer Forum

The F8 I'm getting hopefully this week will come from a freshwater tank so that's what I've set the tank up as currently.

How long should I leave it before I start to add salt to the water? Also when I get the Puffer how should I get it used to the tank by adding water to its bag etc?

I'd dump a majority of the water out of the bag. Float for 10 minutes, add 1/2 cup tank water the bag, then again after another 10 minutes. Fish puffer out of the bag with a small cup, so it doesn't inhale air.

Keep an eye on the parameters for at least the next 3 days. If no ammonia/nitrite, you can start raising the SG. http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/vie ... =8&t=19348

Oh wow that fast huh.

Yup, just raise the sg slowly. Saves your bacteria getting hit hard

Do you know I was looking at tanks for sale and just seen a figure 8 puffer for sale complete with tank for 50 quid, if I hadn't spent so much on setting up this tank I'd be on it lol

I know I'm late to the party but in case someone else is researching, I'd like to add my experience:

My puffer's tank was set up at 1.003. When I got my F8, I drip acclimated to 1.003 into a small bucket.

During my initial research I discovered that some puffer species like F8s in the wild often swim from freshwater areas to brackish areas just while routinely hunting for food. Which comforted me a lot about doing such an extreme acclimation. As long as it's at a rate of them swimming from one salinity to the next, I don't see a problem.

I used this product:

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/p ... atid=16100

this helps me lot too for my future F8! thanks for the info!