I purchased a dog face puffer today.. he is brown and spotted and i’ve posted on facebook about him and people have said he looks good and he looks horrible. I’m aware he has a hazy eye which I plan to treat. LFS is feeding krill, only known issue of him is his beak needs filed some since it’s a...
Midnight Dogface Puffers come from the Solomon Islands, where they inhabit a wide variety of habitats. They are found everywhere from coral reefs to sea grass beds, to brackish estuary environments. The one thing that seems to be a requisite for them is relatively sedate, or at least predictable...
I have 2 tanks but recently i bought green puffers that needs salt water and i can't put the loaches with them. so, can i put the loaches with the betta?
For those with pufferfish, I have read that using a net to get them in the tank will stress them and can potentially harm the fish if they puff while out of water.
I am ordering quarantined fish from Dr Reef, but still don't want to add foreign water to my tank.
Any tips on the best way to...
Hello, I have a 45 gallon tank that I set up last year. I've had two clownfish for nearly 5 months now. I am looking into getting a leopard puffer or a blue spotted puffer but I have some questions first.
1. Is my tank size appropriate for a leopard or toby puffer? I do not have a sump. I see...
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This guy is like my puppy! He will fallow you all over the tank and eat from your hand. He has been a joy to have since the past year. He was about 3” when I got him and has been a healthy fish and was quarantined before I...
Hello everyone. I have had a blue spotted pufferfish in one of my many at home aquariums for about 6 months now. He was in a tank with a baby snowflake eel and a undulate trigger fish. The tank is a 60 gallon. It was my small/ baby fish tank until they got big enough to move up into my 75 and...
Thanks to everyone for being so kind and helpful here, seriously, you all make a scared newbie feel welcome. So here’s what I’m wanting advice on. I understand the idea of getting the biggest tank you can afford, while also keeping in mind what you intend to have in said tank. Right now I’m...
Hello I’m new to this forum and saltwater aquariums so I hope I’m posting this In the right place. Anyways I finished cycling my first saltwater aquarium last weekend and pick up a blue spotted Toby puffed from the lfs. I’ve had him for about four days and he seems super healthy and happy I...
Hello I have a sharp nose puffer who I have had for a little over a week he had ich and has basically fought it off I was using kick ich it is a copper free solution I have been feeding him a lot of brine so that could have led to the belly being large also it says on the bottle to take out...
So I looked over and saw my puffer with a large portion of my engineer goby hanging out of his mouth. I know puffers eat smaller fish but the goby is pretty big.he didn't even eat him, just munched on his tail for a while and then let him go, now the goby looks like he'll die soon...
What the heck??
So I have a little patch of GHA growing in between the glass and live rock, and look who’s actually helping instead of eating coral! Haha. Not sure if other people’s pufferfishes do the same?
Just discovered my Valentini Puffer going to town on a patch of gha on my live rock. I’m wondering do puffers usually go for that,? Maybe some copepods in there, hmmm
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So had the pp 4 weeks now no problem ......
He eats fresh tiger prawns chunks daily healthy happy . 3 days ago I saw 3 white spots on each of his eyes and thought it’s just white spot because my powder brown got it again and has it . And I was already in the process of...
I love the body shape and personality of pufferfish and would love to add one of the little toby puffers to my tank!
However, I also love my corals... and would prefer they weren't eaten.
I have lps, mushrooms, a leather, sps, zoas / polyps, gorgonians, nps, and a maxi mini carpet... so a...