The Puffer Forum

+1, no viruses here--ever!

hmm...well thats good i dont know why we got one it was an antivirus thing but it was a virus its self! weird

Best antivirus on the market for home use is Avast!, it's free and very comprehensive. Also agree with Nick on the use of FireFox for a web browser. When Internet explorer came out with IE 7 it was in response to people using FF and the drop in sales for web surfing addons for IE. They tried to mimic FF and failed miserably, still lets crap through like a sieve....Two other browsers that I occasionally use are Google's Chrome and one called Opera. Both have better security than IE....

so back to my new puffer being weird and all what should i do...every now and then i will see him floating on the bottom of the tank, tail tucked to the side, a little puffed up(maybe) and he turns a little darker and the sides of his belly start to darken to a gray? The only think i think that can cause this is the pH, but my first puffer is amazing, and perfectly fine and really green. The pH is at 9 right now but i know i shouldnt try to lower it with anything because drastic changes in pH isnt any better for them. Everything else is fine. Do you think he may be constipated?

Sounds like he's sleeping to me. My GSP does the same thing every afternoon. After you disturb him do his colors change back to a normal color?

yes they do change back to normal. And i have noticed that when the lights have been out all night and in the morning when turn them on my sleepy puffers are real dark and they look so tired and sleepy lol...thanx for the advice dadof4...i appreciate it a lot...it was worrying me a bit

OMG, all this time it was just sleeping? I wish I had known this happened at night.

I'm sorry pufferpunk i didnt know that was normal...all i ever hear is that if they get darker or their bellies turn to a grey color that it wasnt good. haha im still a beginner just remember that

At one point we had 25 different Trojans and Spyware. (Don't worry we got it fixed before I came here) all because of my brother on MySpace. Can't wait until my mom and I get to split a Labtop just for us and then my dad and brother can go on the infected computer.

haha your going to put your dad with your brothers infected computer thats funny. Yea we never get viruses, but this one got us 2x. It said it was a new type of spyware thing and we didnt download it but it downloaded its self and we had to do something to the computer, im not sure my fiance did it i dont know much about that stuff.

That's because he eats junk while he's on the keys get really sticky.

ohh haha yea you cant eat while on the computer. But i guess thats why your not letting him use yours and your moms.

I'll eat cereal, but I don't dip my fingers in the milk like he does!! (Sarcastically)

lol thats funny. i dont eat anything at this laptop, if i got something on it my fiance would freak out(not in a bad or dangerous way tho, more like a funny way)

Do you have any updated pics of your tank?