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My Red Tailed Red Eyes!!!

Postby RLHirth on Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:06 pm

A little background first! i have always loved puffers but never ventured into them. i have always had fish and loved the unusual! (i also have a hairless male chinese crested Onyx and a Male Florida softshell Phent) and i somehow always had dwarf frogs in my tanks and i could never rehome these little guys, well 3 months ago my last female Dwarf frog passed, so i decided it was time for the Puffers to make there appearence!

I was planning on upgrading my tank anyways!!! but when i got my Red tails i only had a 14 gallon!! i got a male and female... realized very fast that the 14 gallon was not good... so for my birthday my boyfriend bought me a 29 gallon bowfront and stand, i got a 3 stage filter so i could use all my only filter media so instant cycle! and the new advanture began...

I have now had them for 3 months and im loving it!!! they each have totally different personalities!!! so on with the pictures!!!!

First there old cramped tank!!!
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heres the female in the old tank!
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and the male in the old tank!!
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now the new tank!!! just waiting now for the background plans to shoot up!!
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Heres the picture i got of the female!! usually she's the easy one to photograph but not today
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and the usually shy but dominate male!!!
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alright that is all!!! now the male says kiss my butt!!!
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Re: My Red Tailed Red Eyes!!!

Postby bertie 83 on Wed Aug 01, 2012 3:26 am

Welcome to the forum, nice tank,
It's amazing how easy maintenance is. If done regularly and thoroughly
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Re: My Red Tailed Red Eyes!!!

Postby RLHirth on Wed Aug 01, 2012 4:11 pm

bertie 83 wrote:Welcome to the forum, nice tank,


Thank you! And I'm glad to be here! Alot of people know there stuff and are willing to help that want to be helped
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Re: My Red Tailed Red Eyes!!!

Postby RLHirth on Wed Aug 01, 2012 4:11 pm

bertie 83 wrote:Welcome to the forum, nice tank,


Thank you! And I'm glad to be here! Alot of people know there stuff and are willing to help that want to be helped
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Re: My Red Tailed Red Eyes!!!

Postby Flutter on Wed Aug 01, 2012 4:14 pm

Very nice! I love irrubescos and they have a great tank! What lucky fish :)
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Re: My Red Tailed Red Eyes!!!

Postby RLHirth on Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:19 am

Thank you flutter! I wanted to the best environment I could and make sure they were comfortable! Other than yesterday they have not stopped exploring! Yesterday they ate way too much and were both sulking! I feed them there first time on live brine shrimp ( not a lot of places around here will sell "small portions" of brine shrimp! But I was able to get some and after that some how they caught a ghost shrimp that has been in there tank forever! I got really worried for a bit because they were so round and just not very active! Well there up and about this morning! And they got the fast day moved from Saturday to today!
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Re: My Red Tailed Red Eyes!!!

Postby Nuclear_Glitter on Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:11 pm

Welcome! That's a very nice tank and you have some lovely plants. Your puffers are super adorable, too.

I want to suggest that you QT (quarantine) all live food before feeding it to your puffers so you do not pass any nasties on to them.
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Re: My Red Tailed Red Eyes!!!

Postby RLHirth on Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:40 pm

Thank you
Oh I do QT! These shrimp somehow escaped my turtle forever so I have them I little bit better life in the well planted puffer tank
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Re: My Red Tailed Red Eyes!!!

Postby RLHirth on Thu Sep 13, 2012 9:18 am

princysharma1990 wrote:Very nice tank and fish too. I really liked your tank. I think she just loves her tank. Very lucky cute little fish.


Thank you! I only aim to please! Haha
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Re: My Red Tailed Red Eyes!!!

Postby Pufferpunk on Thu Sep 13, 2012 12:24 pm

Spam!
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...

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