The Puffer Forum

How is everyone doing?
First of all let me thank you for a great site. My name is J. living in Ireland at the moment and foreseeable future.
Today, after cycling my 60l tank, I went and bought my first green spotted well three actually. All no more than an inch long. And yes I was told they are a freshwater fish.
After doing a little (more) research I came across a great article written by pufferpunk in 2005 which led me to this site. Thank you for that.
A few days ago I went looking for snails to start a feeder tank and was sold some assassin snails which upon entry killed off the minute amount of pest snails i found on some plants in the puffer aquarium. (man do i feel stupid just typing this).
Anyway just wanted to introduce myself and will be trying to find out more on steadily changing the tank to brackish. Do I add the small amounts of marine salt during water changes? (reading in the article to up the solidity .002 a week?????????? Wasnt reading up on marine at all sorry)

Thanks
J.

Welcome

Before you worry about moving to brackish/salt, get a tank suitable for 3 GSPs. 60l is about 15 gallons which is WAY WAY WAY to small. You need atleast 90g or 340l.

And dont worry about the snail thing, we all make mistakes

Really too small I was afraid of that. and you know what? The shop assistant is expecting me back in five days to collect the two south american puffers i originally put the deposit on. for the same tank. and I went through the whole set up with him.
I also have a 90l (25g?) tank doing nothing but I cant seem to source a lid for it

Thanks.
J.

So just looking in the pufferpedia I should bring my spotted puffers back to the shop and stick with the south american puffer says there they need less tank size/space?

I could be wrong but I believe south american puffers will eventually need their teeth trimmed... so I wouldn't pick them as a first puffer.

Neither would I. SAP's are hard to keep and you need a long tank for them. Plus they dont act like other puffers. very skitish

How did it go with the fish store? Did you end up getting the SA puffers? They should be kept in a tank on their own, and preferably in a group of 3 or more. As for dentistry, they only need their teeth trimmed about once a year if you feed them a regular diet of snails. As for the GS puffers, what did you end up deciding. Are they going to be in the same tank together?

Actually, every 4-6 months for dentistry, is more like it...
library/hospital/dentistry/

Have you had to do it that often before? That would get annoying I'd think.

Yep

Then I guess my SAPs are either mutated or I'm really really lucky lol. Or my memory is failing... that's a scary thought.