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Pufferpunk wrote:Anubias will "melt" in BW. That catfish is not a BW fish, I believe it prefers softwater conditions. Driftwood will also soften the water--not good for hard, BW.

Well dang. Is a salinity of around 1.005 good?

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Okay. Will the plants I have in there be okay? (Anubias, Java Fern)

Also, I bought a piece of driftwood for the puffer to explore, and there happened to be a little bumblebee catfish in it. Will it die with the salinity change?

Lurkers do just that--hide & lurk--often buried up to their eyeballs in the sand. You'd be better off with a GSP or one of the Monotrete puffers. Check out the Pufferpedia here, under the Learn tab. And I also had another quick question. My Figure Eight is in full freshwater at the moment. I'd ...

Lurkers do just that--hide & lurk--often buried up to their eyeballs in the sand. You'd be better off with a GSP or one of the Monotrete puffers. Check out the Pufferpedia here, under the Learn tab. Thanks! Puffers can and do bite the hand that feeds them. http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/vi...

Hey guys! I plan on setting up a 40B in the future and would like to have a lone, larger puffer. Obviously I won't have an Mbu or Fahaka, but I'd like something larger than my Figure 8. My other request is that it be as interactive and friendly as my Figure 8. He always swims up to me and lets me ha...

I doubt that the quite small tanks under discussion could support one Otocinclus cat long term, much less several. Otos may be small, but they will actually outlive many DPs, if they are properly selected (never buy a hollow-bellied DP, QT in a tank w/algae - including some soft green glass algae i...

I have a half dozen ghost shrimp with my DP, the puffer has only eaten a couple over the past three years yet murdered the pair of oto's I had in there within a month of having them. This is what I plan on putting in there. I MAY try a few otos, but I'm not sure. I will, however, put some ghost shr...

Pufferpunk wrote:For some reason, DPs don't eat shrimp tank mates. Most DPs, that is...

Is it possible that an Amano shrimp would work? I'm taking your advice and getting a Nuvo Spec V instead of the smaller Spec 3.

Pufferpunk wrote:Please reconsider & get your puffer a 5-10g. Then you can add a trio of otocinclus and/or cherry shrimp.

The cherry shrimp won't get eaten?

Pufferpunk wrote:Please reconsider & get your puffer a 5-10g. Then you can add a trio of otocinclus and/or cherry shrimp.

I'm new to puffers, sorry. Wouldn't it eat cherry shrimp?

Hello everyone! I'm obviously new here. I'm going to be setting up a Fluval 3 for a single Dwarf Puffer. It will be moderately planted. My question is, what kind of cleaners could I have? I won't be able to fit a small school of Otocinclus, and I'm worried about small snails being eaten. Would it be...