Recent content by ruth28

I'm not sure about the planting ive never really like them and i wouldn't know where to start is there any other way, anything that can be added to the water to use up this nutrient. As for the brackish again i wouldn't know where to start and surely changing him now when he is ok would upset him.

I have 1 F8 on his own and he is enertaining enough is is contsantly swimmin around and always comes to the front of the tank when i go over and they look beautiful under a light. As for the trimming i'v had mine nearly a year and never had to do it as long as you feed them right mine has half...

Ok im sorry i jumped the gun it was just the way your reply came across! I have got quite a detailed book in there it says that they can be either brackish or fresh and with the fish shop saying they had him in fresh i thought it would be harsh to change it. To be honest with you i'm not hundred...

First of all thank you for that site it was helpfull as i was told they were not brascish not that i can see a problem as he is happy enough. Secondly i think that was very rude of you i have been a fish keeper for nearly ten years now and i posted the question on why i was having trouble with...

The tank isn't brackish its freshwater, to be honest ive tried the glass cleaners it doesn't shift it i need to use a blade, it just builds up so quick. there has got to be a reason i have another tank just a community and it is in more direct light and doesn't suffer from badly algae at all...

Thanks for your help, its not hairy its just like a thick slime that comes of in ribbons and its a figure 8 puffer i read that you couldm't put ANYTHING in the tank as he would just kill it. As for plants neaver really had real ones so wouldn't know where to start.

I've had my puffer fish for about a year now no trouble apart from brown algae at the start which soon cleared up. But for the past 8 months i've been battling every 3 weeks to scrap films of algae of the glass of the tank with a stanley knife blade, it just keeps coming back, he is in no...