Brackish & Oddities

New Puffer Owner

feeds@yuku.com (hobbsthepuff) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:44:28 GMT

Hi, I'm new here ^-^
I figured this woudl be the place to ask about my figure eight puffers. Specifically, how to move them with as little stress as possible. I'm a college student who (foolishly) decided to buy a 20 gal and stock it with figure eights. They (all 3) are cheerful, adorable and cheeky, I adore them, but they are time consumers! My dorm closes for breaks (from 2 days to 2 months!), and even if I could find a block feeder that lasted that long, i'm not...

Confused by orange chromide behaviour

feeds@yuku.com (Tracer) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:40:11 GMT

I have a 20gallon tank with 2 figure eight puffers, and two orange chromides in it, plus a dragon gobie. They all looked like they were getting along very well, especially the two chromides. They seemed inseperable, and were always rolling in circles for each other and swimming very close together, ect. I noticed about a week ago what looked like an egg sack attached to a rock. When I looked up online, it looks similar to what is decscribed. I didn't touch it, not all that intrested...

A Rarity...

feeds@yuku.com (horselover1991) — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:52:24 GMT

I actually saw a guy at the LFS today that was actually knowledgeable about fish. Some people were wanting to put guppies with either oscars or puffer fish, and this guy actually advised against them doing this. They then wanted to put an ACF with guppies and not expect it to eat it, but I said to them that those frogs love snatching fish for snacks. But there was someone there other than me that knew some things about fish, and advised people right for a change. But this was such a...

2009 F'n'F Calendar Contest

feeds@yuku.com (todley) — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:03:33 GMT

Yes, were going to put together another calendar & I'm finally getting it together for ya'll. I apologize for the short time frames this year but at least we're going to have one

Flippers 'n' Fins' 2009 Calendar Contest Rules.

All F'n'F members are encouraged to enter their best aquatic photo(s) and 12 winning entries will be chosen to appear in the calendar. The...

tell me if I am in the right place or not

feeds@yuku.com (mrsweather) — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:14:48 GMT

Those of you who frequent the Betta forums know that my sorority tank is now empty (very sad), and the 20 gallon is now waiting on a good nuking to get rid of whatever illness has been going around.

That being said, we are discussing options for when it is set back up. Im too broken hearted to do another sorority at the moment, so we were thinking about BB Mollies. We have had them in the past, but with unhappy results. We found out too late that they prefer the...

Darking bogs and puffers :)

feeds@yuku.com (tetralina3) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:38:53 GMT

Would loud, barking dogs stress out a puffer? I know some fish actually like the activity of other animals or TV but not all species would enjoy the show. I worry it would be too much for a puffer . . . what do you think?

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I rescued a pea puffer

feeds@yuku.com (dieingchild) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:19:41 GMT

So about two days ago I was at a local LFS trying to find an electric blue johanni. I didn't find one but while looking through their tanks I found a tank full of mollies and one little pea puffer. The poor little guy looks like he hasn't had any food for some time. It looks like his stomach is sucked in, as far as I can tell no other signs of disease and has been very active during the day.
I put him in a 1.5 for the first day, then I found a 5 gal. that my cousin gave me....

this is gherkin the pickle puffer! (pictures)

feeds@yuku.com (Euphoria) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:10:46 GMT

i know it's a corny name, but it's kinda cute. i've had it for about a month or two. this particular picture is of my puffer about to eat a snail for lunch. i just can't get that little fish to stay still for a picture! oh, i love my fish! the second one is of my puffer
just after it woke up.

annoying stinky crab....what to do?

feeds@yuku.com (Euphoria) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:31:01 GMT

ok a few weeks ago i bought a little crab. not a hermit crab, an actual crabby crab. it's really cute, but lately i've been having to do 100% water changes every day, and it's beginning to be too much. his cage smells like decomposing flesh and it's disgusting. it's not even like one of those bad smells you can get over. we had to take him outside for a while. what do i do with it? he's in a 1 gallon tank with about 6 inches of water and a pile of flat rocks, some of...

my green spotted puffer is acting funny....

feeds@yuku.com (Euphoria) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:15:21 GMT

my green spotted puffer has started this weird behavior of almost scrubbing itself against things. it will swimm up slowly to any given object in the tank and quickly swim against it. also, sometimes it looks as if it is coughing... it swallowed a small snail shell today and does not eat as excitedly now. what happened to my fish???

Stingray pond

feeds@yuku.com (JadedRapport) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:08:12 GMT

Oh no, what have I begun!

A very fun project that's what

This is my soon-to-be 4x4x1 indoor stingray pond. A while ago I talked about all the projects that I will be doing in my new house. A few are complete, like the river tank that is now housing hillstream loaches. A few are not even in the works, like the massive wooden reef tank. Finally, there are a few new ones under construction, like the...

will fresh to high brackish increase color?

feeds@yuku.com (Euphoria) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:08:53 GMT

soon i will have a brackish tank. will my green spotted puffer get a little more color to it? ou, and when i put a big pinch of oceanic salt in it today, my puffer perked up and swam directly to where i put the salt. is this normal?? it's pretty cute!

making brackish water for a GSP?

feeds@yuku.com (Euphoria) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:18:54 GMT

ok so a few weeks ago i scouted out the healthiest green spotted puffer from any of the pet stores in my area. the fins have no nips, it is colorful, no white spots, curious, and it fans the caudal (i think...the back one) fin often. i feed it thawed brine shrimp every night and 2 snails until the belly is nice and round. it is alone in a 10 gallon aquarium with a tetra whisper 10-30 gal filter, a bubble wall, and a nice little cave. today i bought some Oceanic sea salt mix from the pet...

55 gallon, F8 puffer . . . what else

feeds@yuku.com (chelle) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:09:08 GMT

Since my time has been very limited lately, I've decided to do some tank consolidation. I'm going to try to rehome my angels and gourami, and move my silver dollars, clown loaches, and synodontis cat in with Sherbert (it's a 75, but I'm going to the bank tomorrow to try to get th ball rolling on buying a house and after that I'll be able to get a much bigger tank for them). So that's going to free up the 55 so I can move Fig there and tear down and store/sell the 20...

My guy

feeds@yuku.com (XZombiesGirlX) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:06:37 GMT

If I could hug him, I just might. He makes me smile, he is so silly. I am so sad! My lfs got some more and I want another but he would eat them. LOL. So anyway, an update. His tail and gil feathers are growing and his toes on all hands but his right little nubbin. Here are a few new photos.

crawfish vs figure 8's?

feeds@yuku.com (drawz) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:03:34 GMT

I went to the petstore to get my puffers some snails but they were out they happend to have some crawfish so i bought one he is about the same size as my puffers but i have 4 puffers I thought they would tear him apart like they do when i put goldfish in thier tank... the puffers were interested and nipped at him a few times but they seemed to be very timid around him and wouldn't get realy aggresive and eat him, also the crawfish got a few good pinches in on my puffers so i took him out....

Peapod puffer?

feeds@yuku.com (itsybelle) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:56:35 GMT

Does anyone have or have you heard of the peapod puffer? One of the fish stores near my job has two tanks FULL of these little creatures. I tried getting more info about them online, but couldn't find what I was looking for.

Are they brackish or freshwater?

A separate note....are there any freshwater puffers that can be kept in species only tanks or in community tanks?

Couple Brackish Questions

feeds@yuku.com (chelle) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:17:41 GMT

#1 - when initially setting up & cycling a brackish tank, can filter media from a freshwater tank be used to seed the new filter? Or are the bacteria in brackish water different?

#2 - Freshwater or Saltwater test kits for ammonia, nitrIte, and nitrAte?

#3 - Other than the addition of marine salt mix and checking the salinity, is everything else about brackish tanks pretty much like freshwater? No special equipment & such?

-Chelle

Feeding ghost shrimp

feeds@yuku.com (Tracer) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:27:43 GMT

I got about a dozen ghost shrimp from my LFS for about $.50 the other day, and thought I would try this out. Never fed the boy's this before. I have two figure eight puffers in a 20gal brackish water tank.
First off, they are impossible to catch! Once I figured out the two net trick, they are impossible for the puffer's to see... so now I have shrimp crawling around this tank. How long do they live in brackish water? I really don't want dead shrimp in my tank, not so...

Is it safe to use beach sand in my brackish setup?

feeds@yuku.com (Cau) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:04:44 GMT

Hi!

I'm going to the beach in a couple weeks and the thought came into my mind. There's this beach that has blackish sand that could look very attractive in my tank! Is it safe to use beach sand in tanks?
If so, what treatment can i perform to purify the sand? Can i boil it or something?