The Puffer Forum

I seem to remember reading somewhere that porcs should be kept in tanks with no substrate - the colleague of mine with the new porc has live rock, obviously, but also a live sand substrate and I swear I read porcs shouldn't have bare-bottom tanks (I might've dreamt this).

I've been trawling Google and I just can't find where I read it.....

Personally, I hate BB. It is so unnatural-looking. You'd need to have a ton of flow across tthe bottom of the tank to pick up the detrious & get it into the water column, so the skimmer can pick it up. Puffers are confused & frightened when they see a fish swimming below them all the time too.

BB are really annoying, I've never heard of porcs needing a bare bottom tank before. I think you may have dreamt it

I remember reading an article about saltwater tanks with bb. Personally I don't like it. It dosen't seem natural to me.

I don't like bare bottom tanks either. A lot of people who run them swear by them, but those are usually the people whose corals have priority over their fish; and regardless, to me it's not simulating an important part of a coral reefs.

You're not going crazy : P
I've read/heard of it before as well--- but I have also heard plenty against it.