Home Sweet Puffer Home

[Jayhawk]

You'll need to do two things:

1) Keep the tank cycled with some living creature or recycle with biospira when you add the puffer and
2) Slowly increase the SG if your keeping the tank cycled so you don't kill off the good bacteria.

I'd first see what SG your LFS keeps the puffer at (was this a GSP which will need a larger tank later or are you going with a Figure 8 who'll love that tank forever?). Anyway, many brackish puffs are kept in FW or FW with aquarium salt, so you'll need to use marine mix slowly for both the puffer and your bacteria. Increases of .001 SG to .002 SG per week are safe.

Eric

 

[Pufferpunk]

What in the world are you gonna do w/a pacu???

 

[fish_breeder_05]

would the food include snails.

 

[fish_breeder_05]

if you only have one puffer and it's small, a 20 gallon tank maybe ok. yes, you will want to cycle the water as you do a fw tank but make sure you add your sea salt, too. it needs to be fully disolved before you add your puffer.

i haven't had any luck with plants in my tank. i've tried mangrove trees, java ferns, and micro swords, etc....all kinds of "brackish" plants. they all live but they never look that good.

driftwood is good but it can also discolor your water somewhat.

make sure you feed your puffer some hard foods too. they have teeth that need to be wore down. snails and mussles are what i use.

good luck

Try java moss. its like a weather loach, invincible

 

[RTR]

Java Moss will not survive mid to high density brackish water.