The Puffer Forum

I use regular play sand in all my tanks including my 75 gallon. I think sand is easy to clean especially if its a planted tank. I rarely actually vacuum the substrate because all my tanks are also planted. A colony of mts will prevent the black spots , so will a gentle stir with your hands once a mo...

Ok thanks for the advice guys/gals. I will try to start a journal when things get started.

Its goint ot be so cool to have a school of DP's. Yeah I have wanted one for a really long time but wanted it to be in a 40gal hex tank, this will work better though. Edit: If I go with 15 dp's how many ottos should I add? I have 6 in my community tank that will need a new home when my perch and ca...

cool tank (what's in there?). I'm sure it would be excellent for DPs :) I think the apple snail may be too big, but I'm not sure. I think Chin answered that question once... This isn't the tank they are going in just using it as a plant density reference. On the apple snails, my snails are always s...

OK this sounds like its acceptable, I will try to start the tank soon. How planted does it need to be? I'm gonna post a puic of my current fw 75 gallon tank to see if it is around the right plant density. http://usera.imagecave.com/sepgundamrg/75update1-23.JPG Also could I feed the little buggers ba...

I have an empty 55gal tank that I originally got for a dog-faced puffer, but it turns out salt water is to expensive for me right now. I have all the equipment for a freshwater tank and think it would be a neat setup if I planted it and put in around 15-20 dwarf puffers, maybe less. Would this setup...

I have a dwarf puffer named Sean.