The Puffer Forum

PH-8.0
Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
Nitrate-10
SG 1.002
20 gallon 2 small cyelon puffers 1 and 1.5" long
Feeding mussel, Mysis, bloodworms, Snails, added Kent Zoecon to food use Prime and stability for water changes.
Just last week started going brackish
Aquarium has been going for a few months and cycled with fishless cyle

Okay so my problem is the bigger puffer is biteing the other smaller one 3 times now but only when they are feeding other than that they avoid eachother. my question being what should i use for the bites aswell as what i should do for the biteing. I love them both and dont wanna see either of them hurt I do have a second 20 gallon and i plan on buying a 75gallon on boxing day maybe bigger depends on what my wife allows. should i seperate them or just maybe seperate them for feeding idk. plz help idk what th

These cute little things could show no aggression to the other and the next min they could chew each other up.. u would never know.. Since u have another 20g on hand, I would say use it.. just remember to split the media over to the other new tank to help with cycling and watch the parameter. Use melafix to treat for the bites.

I do not have any ceylons anymore, one strange way I use to do is I have a long skewer on hand. When they start feeding and if one showed any aggression, I would use it to push him away.. works for me though.. but I think u are better off with separating them!

If you have two tanks, definitely separate them - it'll also help with preventing stunting until you get the larger tank.

+1 separate. However putting them back together may prove impossible. The 20g is way too small to keep them both in though

a good idea and quick solution would be shipping one to me

okay so 500$ later i have a 75 gallon cycleing : ) go creditcards i dont wanna seperate them i know a 75 will still be to small for them later on but i plan on at least a 120gallon. 75 was the biggest i could afford at the moment.

oh and Dr.Kenn if u are intrested in one of them we could talk more. if i cant provide a great home for the 2 and it getting rid of one so they can both be happy and healthy i would have no problem doing it.

WOW i have a 65 i got for $40 for the glass, $20 for the light, $20 for the filter, and built a stand for $30. yours must be GRAVY! and yeah if you decide you dont want one throw me a pm and we'll work something out.

things in alberta are not cheap. i live in an appartment so i dont have the means to build a stand or i would have and i had a 90 gallon but umm well lets say we had a misshap testing to see if it still held water anyways still got $150 for it on Kijiji. i will post a picture log or somthin as i set up the 75.

I used cinder blocks & wood planks to hold up a 125g tank for many years.

hey things in alberta arent to bad i lived there all last year! in banff national park, the more expensive area. lumber is cheap there cause theres no provincial sales tax! i just bought (in large lenghts but the cut up dimensions are) 4x2'6" 4x4 beams for legs, and the dimentions squared in 2x4s. a ring of 2x4s for the top and a ring of 2x4s for the bottom. i painted it all black and it looks really great, much better than i thought it would. didnt cost more than $40 dollars. just for next time consider for all that money you could have gotten a drill to drive it together and kept the drill forever! either way i hope it all works out for you and your ceylons stop bickering.