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Tank is pretty small to keep more than one. Honestly I know people say a 5 gallon is enough for these guys, but I find that they are so inquisitive that they quickly become bored of such a small tank. I am upgrading mine to a 13 gallon and going to add a friend for it. Mine did glass surf when I...

I'm sorry but that is the most adorable cat picture I have seen!

The first time I put shrimp in my tank I thought they were dying because I found their corpses in the tank. Turns out they were just molts and I was surprised when I saw all four of them just hanging out on one of my plants one night when I was quietly observing the tank.... too bad that...

Sure, but the truth is they learned from each other and changed their behavior based on that. I'm not saying the puffer took the mosquito fish aside and told them what was happening in the tank or anything. It's just that fish aren't really seen as intelligent creatures at all especially with...

I didn't realize the extent of social behavior in fish until I went to a local reservoir to catch some shrimp to add to my puffer tank in hopes that the puffer wouldn't eat them and that they would help control the algae growth in the tank. My sister came along with me and caught some fish which...

Thanks for the concern, but my puffer is fine now. I haven't seen or noticed any other bumps on it for a long time. The only thing that worries me sometimes is how after it eats, one side of its belly looks a little uneven, but nothing has really indicated that it has parasites so I am thinking...

How do you do your water changes? You need to be squirting water around the substrate to stir up the top layer of it so all the poop and stuff gets moving and you suck the dirty stuff up with a hose or gravel vac type of thing. Detritus worms are in every tank, but overfeeding really cause them...

Maybe you should give us the specs of your tank so we can help you better. Things like algae and cyanobacteria are things a lot of other people encounter, heck I'm battling algae myself at the moment and had my canister filter start leaking on me the past week. Not to mention this weird white...

I think you have it the other way around... females tend to be bigger, or at least rounder in shape. Males have a stripe going down their belly along with small lines behind their gills. As with most animals, the males tend to be brighter in color with darker spots while females have a somewhat...

Mine has like a lust for food or something. It picks at stuff ghat looks remotely like food and if I feed it it goes crazy eating. I put snails in there and watch it turn into a monster eating them lol. I have a nerite and it even tries to eat that but luckily my nerite shell protects it since...

Have you tried feeding it something else? Puffers can be picky about their food. But before anything you need to give more details... like is the tank cycled? Water parameters? Etc

Has anyone attempted to train their fish? I have watched some puffers on youtube who enjoy getting pet or do tricks. I know a dwarf puffer is tiny compared to the ones on youtube but I think it should be possible to train them as well. I hope to be able to feed my puffer with my hand and have...

Oh no! I agree with everyone else. That isn't a pea puffer but a brackish type and I'm afraid a 5 gallon tank is not big enough for it at all... Hopefully you are able to do a lot of research on the type you have and get it the right conditions.

The fish stores here don't sell snails unfortunately. I'm also scared to take them from the wild in case they might have parasites in them. I am happy with frozen bloodworms for now. I am kind of shying away from feeding it shrimp because I want to attempt to keep some shrimp in there with the...

I think it was me being overly worried. Luckily I monitored it for a while and the stuff on it's belly was most likely some substrate because it was gone later and I haven't seen it again. Although today I did notice two tiny pinprick sized reddish bumps on the right side of its mouth. I'm...

It seems the snails in my tank have run out as I came home yesterday to a puffer that did not look fat/bloated. I fed it some frozen bloodworms which it readily gulped up. I do know that if I only feed it that it may have deficiency issues, so I was wondering if there was anything else I could...

Honestly unless you see signs of them having parasites, I wouldn't do it for the same reason you stated. I believe it is stressful for the fish and wouldn't recommend it unless you know for sure they were wild caught or you see symptoms of them having it. At least, that's the method I am taking...

My dwarf puffer has been healthy since I got it almost 2 weeks ago, but there have been some signs that kind of worry me. A few days after getting it we noticed a small white spot on its right fin, along with a small dot hanging off its belly. My tank is always kept at around 25C so if it was...

I only removed the larger snails in the tank because I felt like leaving them in would be like abuse haha they would only get small bits of them bitten off and I imagine it would be very stressful. I've left all smaller ones in the tank and trust me there are tons of tiny baby snails in there...

Whenever I come home my dwarf puffer is so fat. There are snails in my tank but I never see them I only see the tiny white babies and this guy leaves those alone. Sometimes I see it eat stuff that isn't even food lol. I feed it like two bloodworms sometimes because I want it to associate...