The Puffer Forum

Hello,
I have had a fahaka puffer for a year but it only went from around 2 inches to about 4 and a half inches and doesn’t really do anything but sit at the bottom of the tank and occasionally goes up and down the front of the tank I am feeding 1 shrimp everyday with weekly water changes and a feeder crab once a month and advice

Tank size? Water change schedule?

You need to change up the diet more:
library/feeding/feeding-your-puffers/

The tank size is 55 gallons but I have a 125 set aside for her

Did you read the article I posted about feeding? Shrimp is high in thiaminase, which is detrimental.
https://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/ ... hiaminase/

Pufferpunk wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 10:13 am Did you read the article I posted about feeding? Shrimp is high in thiaminase, which is detrimental.
https://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/ ... hiaminase/

so glad to see thiaminase being pointed out. I have been down the rabbit hole because i would quite like to get a bigger puffer like a Fahaka in the future