The Puffer Forum

Hey everybody, im new to the forum. I recently bought a 3 inch Green spotted puffer. He is in a well planted (fake plants) 20 gallon high but i will be upgrading to 40 breeder soon for his final home. I plan on converting him to full marine. I was wondering if i could see some setups of full marine GSP tanks so i can get some ideas. Also any advice is welcome
Thank you

I don't have any pictures but I do want to say welcome and it's awesome that you've done research about your fish

I'm setting a tank up right now, I'll have pics son.
Welcome!

What is your puffer's name?

also setting up a marine tank for my GSP right now as well.

progress so far can be seen in this thread

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28053&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Thank you! I did a lot of research ahead of time and then i stumbled across one at my lfs. For 14 dollars even i couldnt pass it up!
I figured if im gonna do a saltwater might as well do a cool puffer. Man i fed it a crab a few days ago and it was demolished in a half hour, he went it for the kill when i was acclimating the crab lol and i havent thought of a name yet. And for future refernce, would there possibly be any corals i could keep with a GSP?

I don't have personal experience with keeping puffers and coral together, but I would be inclined to say no as puffers aren't generally reef safe. Welcome to the forum and congratulations on your new GSP!

Thank you Reaper, i had a feeling they wouldnt be reef safe lol especially after seeing what he did to that crab. Im looking forward to setting up his new home. Just hope i can find a cheap protein skimmer

I've heard of success with leathers but anything else would probably just be a waiting food supply.

I agree with flutter, from what I have heard leathers must taste bad lol

Okay thanks guys. I just was thinking have something besides my puffer thats pleasing to the eye lol but no corals for a long long time. Do you have any tips or advice?

Check out this thread. viewtopic.php?f=5&t=28119&st=0&sk=t&sd= ... ecorations
Pufferpunk has a GSP tank with all artificial decorations that looks amazing! You can have the tank look great without a need for live coral.

Wow that looks pretty sick. What should i feed him also? he is only about 3 inches and is eating frozen bloodworms, a shrimp pellet or 2 (not shrimp food) and the weekly treat of a crab or frozen crawdad

Puffers teeth grow fairly quickly, and need to be word down with tough food like snails, and other things that go "crunch". There is a great article on feeding in the library.

Okay, i just had to get some money together to go grab a little 5 gallon to start breeding some snails, but i will definately go check out the article in the library

bertie 83 wrote:I agree with flutter, from what I have heard leathers must taste bad lol

Whenever I hear about leathers and how they must taste bad, I always think of the movie "The Doors", the part where Pamela is giving Jim a hard time about wearing his leather pants constantly, and that they were stinky.