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I have to raise it slowly by .002 a week. The fish are about 1.5 inches so the SG I'm going for is 1.005-1.010 per the GSPs in focus article in the pufferpedia.

I have to raise it slowly by .002 a week. The fish are about 1.5 inches so the SG I'm going for is 1.005-1.010 per the GSPs in focus article in the pufferpedia.

Okay, I'll stick with the fake wood :) Another question, or more of a clarification.. When I go to change out the gravel for the aragonite, I should do this in portions, right? I worry that removing all of the gravel at once might mean removing a portion of the beneficial bacteria and I really don't...

So now that my 40 gallon is cycled, I'd like to start switching over to BW. Right now there is a mix of black and green gravel, 3 tall fake plants, 1 short fake plant, a fake rock formation (small) and a castle (med-large). I'd like to go with plants and a sandy substrate. I hope that a lighter subs...

I know 20 gallons is a lot for the snails lol but the tank was free from a trusted fish keeper friend and it was pre-infested with the pond snails. It's also got about 5 of these guppies in it. She called them show guppies and was adamant that they don't become puffer food. Under those restrictions,...

They're all three in the 40 gallon. The 5 is empty and I have a completely cycled 20 gallon as a snail breeder. I have a second 20 gallon tank, but unfortunately I don't have a filter or anything for it. Otherwise, I'd consider moving the snails into the 5g, and separating the GSPs into their own ta...

Okay, I'll do a water change then. There are a couple little bits of food floating around from yesterday that I wasn't able to capture in the net last night, so I'll vacuum it out. That's probably what's causing the ammonia, yes?

I retested and still 0 ammonia/nitrite and low nitrate. The pic makes it look a little darker than it looks in real life (the nitrate). My cycle isn't crashing on me, is it? It's just barely set. Maybe I'm just being paranoid and I should cut back my testing to nightly (like it was) or every other n...

I got my three from a walmart because I'm a noob lol They had way too many in too small of a tank, but they were pretty actively swimming around and I didn't see any dead ones. Their bellies were all white. I wasn't there when my husband picked them up a couple hours later, but when he brought them ...

I'm not sure if you remember me.. I posted a while back saying I was misled into housing three GSP in a 5 gallon tank. It was suggested that I move them into the 40 gallon, since the 5 would never be able to support their waste and I did so. Now, a couple weeks later, I was thinking the tank was fin...

The three Petsmarts near me have stopped giving me the snails now too. They also refused to sell me the small crabs they have and almost refused to sell me a couple mystery snails because I was planning on trying to feed them to my puffers. They said they won't sell me anything that I'm using as foo...

These were in the puffer tank and snails very rarely even make it to the gravel before they're eaten. There were a couple snails in there with those minnows before I transferred the puffers, but they were eaten immediately. I suppose they could've laid the eggs before they were eaten. I had two ghos...

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I've found 3 or 4 of these things in my tank. They have white spots about salt grain size encapsulated in this clear gel looking stuff. The water movement causes the biggest one to sort of sway in the water but they all stick pretty securely to the gravel. What is this and should I vacuum it out asa...

I'm okay with the color, it just seemed weird is all. I was treating for parasites and the dark puffer I posted about in the hospital forum has gone from refusing to eat, concave, black top and dark grey bottom to happily swimming the tank with the other two. He has a full, fat belly after today's f...