The Puffer Forum

Personally I think you are a little overstocked. What are the exact parameters? How often do you change water and what quantities? Lastly how long has your tank been set up? I wouldn't agree with that at all. Regardless of what my set up is, I was wanting to know if anyone has heard of this happeni...

CoCoPuffs wrote:Is it still eating?

Yeah still eating and swimming as normal. A varied diet of snails, bloodworms, daphnia, glassworm etc

Tell us about the tank size and handling, tankmates, etc. - all the info asked for in red up above that you can give will be helpful. 125 litres, heated to 26.5C, fluval 206 external filter. Heavily planted, CO2, Powerglo, Sunglo lights. 7 Dwarf Puffers, 3 Bumblebee Gobbies, Bristlenose Plec, 2 Ama...

I've had a female dwarf puffer for over six months, and usually she's a vibrant green colour. Recently I've been seeing her looking really pale in colour almost white.

She's been a pale white before but the colour returned. Is this sickness related or normal?

JRC3 wrote:I'm sure it's fine. There's only a few parts that would go bad and they are pretty inexpensive.

If it is flowing slow then it may need to be cleaned. Has it been cleaned since you set it up 5 months ago?

No it hasn't, that will be my first priority!

it doesn't seem to be making any out of the ordinary noises, although when i lift the valve up it does make a loud noise.

I've had a Fluval external 206 filter for around 5 months. The instructions did not give details of what to do when carrying out a water change so when doing weekly water changes I've been lifting the aquastop valve all the way to the top whilst still running so that the outake doesn't squirt water ...

sevenyearnight wrote:Snail eggs.

Oh well, good job as I don't have the tank space. Free food!

umm... putting 1 SUN-GlO and 1 TRUE-LITE instead of the ones you have? it could work if you don't have the chance to add a third tube, juts be sure that the new tubes fit on your structure before you buy them... hey warlord238! does arrowhead tend to bury them selves? i don't have experience with t...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/tyler1983/eggs.jpg After cleaning out the tank i noticed this and initially thought it was a snail, but on closer inspection it looks like a blob of jelly containing black dots. So are these likely to be my Dwarf Puffers eggs or maybe my Bumble Bee Gobbies? Tha...

lol a setup contest already? Well PD, i think we got a lighting problem, those plants need theoretically 1 watt per liter, but i prefer lumen per liter. I guess your lamps are 60 cm (24" or 30" ); 20 W... doesn't it? so, they produce... POWER-GLO: 1400 lumens, aprox , AQUA-GLO 500 lumens,...

warlord238 wrote:tank looks awesome...i saw this picture yesterday and i went to my lfs today to buy the plants to try and replicate your setup and am going back tomorow to get more

Cheers, that's the highest form of flattery! Good luck with it and don't forget to post a pic. But don't make it better than mine!

RVS wrote:How big is your tank? also how tall is it... Powerglo and Aquaglo are quite good lighting... those plants need from 40 to 50 lumen per liter to grow dense.
Im not sure about the exact reason..

I don't have the exact measurements to hand but it's 125 litres in volume.

Those 2 "brushy" plants are limnophila sessiliflora & cabomba caroliniana. if the plant don't grow or stays dense, you have good light. if the plant gows vey tall and the leaves are separated, they need more light to grow dense... ¿what lights are you using? how many lumen or watt? I'...

I've got a problem. Only after a few days of posting the picture the two brushy plants in the back have shot up almost to the top of the water. I guess my CO2 and fertilizer are responsible, but as they've gotten longer the leaves look sparce and not nearly as attractive as in the picture above.