The Puffer Forum

WOW..report to PETTA

Noooo...please don't report to PETA...they will kill the rest of the fish....Humane Society, or some other organization....never ever PETA

REPORT TO ME.I NEED THE TANKS TO KEEP EM

Why would they kill all the fish?

Don't want?
Don't care?
idk

PETA reasoning. They are suffering in that tank. We should kill them so they don't suffer any more. Regular person reasoning. They are suffering, lets get them out of there. PETA euthanizes a higher rate of dogs than pounds do.

that's....depressing.

Just read your thread. Sorry for your loss

What are your plans now? I would not continue to support you petco unless they get their act together...

hannahbanana15 wrote:okay. Don't think just because I'm younger than you means I'm stupid. My shark did fine in a 10 gallon freshwater tank with a blue gourami as a tank mate. I got the salt water tank, put him in it and the gourami in my pond and they were both happy. The shark swam all over the tank and was doing great with no signs of sickness or anything. I put the puffer in and he got sick. The puffer was in a 5 gallon tank at the store for most of it's life, I think he was happy to be in something even a bit bigger than that.

and Sponge bob, new york is a bit far away from tennessee. =/

Well, your shark wouldn't have done well in the long term in a 10g. Are you sure that you can just switch him from fresh to salt like that?

The main difference between the 5g at the store and your 20g is that the store's tank was probably on central filtration, which means that a lot more than 5g of water was carrying waste. This is not actually a good thing in terms of disease, since the same water passed through many tanks and was used by many fish, but there was likely enough water volume to support the bioload of all the fish.

No one here thinks you're stupid; you just have some things to learn. So did I, when I first joined; I still do. You'll never be done learning about fishkeeping. I've read nearly every article on this forum, plus years of posts, and I'm certainly nowhere near an expert on pufferfish. Just be receptive to what people have to teach you. Please don't get defensive; these people just want to help you.

P.S. A lot of us on here are young. I'm 18. There's lots of teens and early 20s here.

Yes, please stick around & learn about fishkeeping from the "experts" here. We have a lot of long-term fishkeeping experience to offer & then you won't have to make the many mistakes we have.

LilGreenPuffer wrote: P.S. A lot of us on here are young. I'm 18. There's lots of teens and early 20s here.

Im 12 =)
13 soon(june)