The Puffer Forum

I've never had jumpers, currently 24 in a 350L quasi opentop. I keep a lid on in the front, leave it open in the back, having roots of house plants in the water. I don't do this to prevent jumping though, just looking to reduce water evaporation. I've also kept pea puffers in smaller topless tanks. ...

And then there were 24 pea puffers

I should probably not say shoal truly, they do their thing, and squabble. The only time they seem to care enough to be together is when something new enters the tank or when it is food time :roll:. It's been a while since I was in this community, and whilst I no longer have green spotted of figure 8...

Pufferpunk wrote:
Can't have a CUC with a puffer.

Sure you can, you just have to replace them often

My sae was able to hold its own against a full size and very aggressive fahaka. :lol: This doesn't truly surprise me, juvenile sae's I've kept were always harassing my other tank inhabitants. Great at eating algae too at that young age, but terrors at the same time. I am sticking with otocinclus 8) .

Manny managed to get out of the refugium and survived the pump and ended up in the display tank some months ago. I haven't bothered trying to remove him. All the hermits are still accounted for and so are the fish :lol:. http://i49.tinypic.com/pb24w.png Admittedly Manny is only 4~5cm :P and won't be...

I will never understand why people ask money for a pet they want to rehome

purplecandle wrote:I hope nobody buys him! You know he won't get a tank that big if he leaves the store!

I would assume he is the store mascot

A LFS here also keeps one as the store pet. He doesnt look as good though

RTR wrote:Huge +1 to all the above - what a fatty!

Tim: That CDC human fatty distribution map is depressing...

If it makes you feel any better, Europe isn't much different I think.

well, maybe not obesity but we do overweight decently enough if I look around where I live, myself included.

I just added a dozen pepp shrimp to my tank. I NEVER see them! I'm not sure if they're eating the aptasia or not. I do know I have way to many copepods. Maybe they ate the shrimp. They are HUGE & look more like beetles to me. They eat all my weaker fish in minutes & swarm whenever there's f...

bertie 83 wrote:Yea he is a proper porker

Maybe he is just trying to blend in with the texans.

Ok new question. So my daily water testings are showing great parameters, no ammonia, slight discolouration/ barely detectable nitrite and the same for nitrates. I have seen what I have discovered is aiptasia, basically are there any reef and community safe aiptasia eaters? I think unlikely but wor...

It's a new set up tank, I may add some to give it a boost. Thanks tim Sumps also make great pod factories :D. My Eheim pumps don't kill them in any case. Even the Mantis shrimp living in my sump went through it to the display tank :lol:. Luckily I have so many isopods he cant be bothered with fish ...

My sump looks like this | | | intake & skimmer | return | refugium | The return having a pump to the refugium and a pump back to the aquarium. Due to my skimmer having a max height of about 25cm iirc I decided to make it this way so the refugium could hold more volume. It's not entirely perfect ...

I miss the large tank full of fish immensely, however the new challenge is worth it. As are the little critters I am already finding, it makes the patience worth while even if it is tough I found the smaller critters and algaes more interesting than the corals and the fish :? and ended up looking i...