First time pea puffer keeper!
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- Dwarf Puffer
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- Gender: Female
- Location (country): United States, Illinois
First time pea puffer keeper!
Hello, Im new to this forum and to the concept of keeping pea puffers Im stupidly excited about getting pea puffers in the next couple months. I have a 20 gallon standard tank that Ill be setting up in the next few days and cycling with about 10 zebra danios for 4 to 6 weeks. A local petstore carries about 4 to 5 pea puffers at a time. I have several questions and will be starting a topic in the right forum. Looking forward to learning about these fascinating puffers and meeting everyone here
- Pufferpunk
- Queen Admin
- Posts: 32764
- Joined: Tue May 31, 2005 11:06 am
- Gender: Female
- My Puffers: Filbert, the 12" T lineatus
Punkster, the 4" red T miurus
Mongo, the 4" A modestus
2 T biocellatus
C valentini
C coranata
C papuan
Also kept:
lorteti
DPs
suvattii
burrfish
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Re: First time pea puffer keeper!
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
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- Dwarf Puffer
- Posts: 91
- Joined: Fri Jul 03, 2015 12:42 pm
- Gender: Female
- Location (country): United States, Illinois
Re: First time pea puffer keeper!
Im not sure where I would get a bacteria source from, unless the LFS Ill be buying the DPs from is willing to help with that. I know there are bottles of acteria starter (I actually have a bottle currently) will that work in a fish less cycle?
20 gallon: Attempting live plants. AC 50. Small gravel substrate. Current LED Light + set on plant setting 8 hours daily. Driftwood and rainbow stone.
10 gallon: Aqueon Quiet flow 20. Blue pet store gravel. Crown tail betta (walmart rescue).
10 gallon: Aqueon Quiet flow 20. Blue pet store gravel. Crown tail betta (walmart rescue).
- Pufferpunk
- Queen Admin
- Posts: 32764
- Joined: Tue May 31, 2005 11:06 am
- Gender: Female
- My Puffers: Filbert, the 12" T lineatus
Punkster, the 4" red T miurus
Mongo, the 4" A modestus
2 T biocellatus
C valentini
C coranata
C papuan
Also kept:
lorteti
DPs
suvattii
burrfish
T niphobles - Location (country): USA, Greenville, SC
- Location: Chicago
- Contact:
Re: First time pea puffer keeper!
Tetra's Safestart: library/water-filtration/emergencycycle/
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
- Welch4
- Fahaka Puffer
- Posts: 698
- Joined: Mon Apr 21, 2014 5:22 pm
- Gender: Male
- My Puffers: 1 GSP
- Location (country): USA
- Location: Abington,MA
Re: First time pea puffer keeper!
My lfs will usually give me a couple handful of filter floss from there established air driven filters.
Forget other advice about puffers you don't hear here - Pufferpunk