The Puffer Forum

Im a little confused. My tank is not cycled but i want to add salt to convert to brackish. Should i add instant cycle product quick start then wait to add salt and bio spira or can i just go with bio spira and salt to cycle my tank

If your fish is unwell leave the salt level alone for now, ( it was yourself that had flooding ?)add QuickStart and get your tank stable and then slowly raise your sg. First priority is the fishes health

You have a gsp? If he is in freshwater now, leave it alone! If you start adding salt to an uncycled/un-established tank...you'll just start crashing your tank and wreaking havoc on your water chemistry.

Get your tank well established as a freshwater tank (I would wait at least a few months)...then move to brackish slowly.

Everybody considers puffers as sensitive fish...but in all honesty if they are healthy they are very hardy fish as long as they are in a well established tank that doesn't have dramatic water chemistry changes.

IDK about any "Quickstart", It's Tetra's Safestart you want & nothing else.

Yep safestart, I thought I had typed that lol