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Well, I hope that will take care of it. Cyanobacteria is a permanent battle for me for over a year... Before you start messing with phosphate buffers and nitrates, read this thread. It turned out to be a disaster for me! http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=11446&st=0&...

Here's my own experience:
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You might find additional info there.

So sorry to hear about your loss PP...

Just like the 3 of mine... no agression yet after a little more than a year so I hope it works out as well for you!

The red marking, could it be a heater burn? Maybe he got burned, got startled, started inflating close to the top of the aquarium, therefor inhaled air in the process. I think when they inhale air they can't expulse it by their own. You burping it would have gotten rid of the air and then he must ha...

Tried the black-out... worked at first, not anymore... I think I bred a dark resistant strand! And I do have a phosphate buffer, problem is my water already has 0,25 phosphate, so I realised that I'd need tons of it to get the phosphate out of the clean water and then control the phosphate from the ...

Like Myaj said, even if you have a male and a female, they might still fight. Is your tank big enough, something like 10G? Also making sure the way you aquascape your tank in a way that the eyeline is broken and that each puffer have a couple of places to hide from the other will help. Find another ...

I have an aquaclear 30 filter in a 15G.... The water flow is quite strong and the plants are always in movement... I think I managed to grow a flow resistant - dark resistant- nitrogen lover strand of cyanobacterias!! (I tried the black out for a week... worked at first and now barely does a thing!)

I know this thread has not been active for a while, but I thought I'd share my experience with this Redfield ratio... My algae problem didn't go away and I couldn't get rid of it, even after puting the fish in a new tank with the old filter. They probably traveled with the filter and colonized the n...

Well, it got worst before it got better! A couple of days after my last post I saw Borneo's tail was growing back (yeah!). And then the otos that had been hiding a lot lately started coming out... with terrible looking tails! All 5 of them had ragged tails! So I did a WC and decided to rinse my filt...

How long have had Bob? When I first got my Dps, it took a week for them to accept my food. Like Myaj said, otherwise tey'd be hunting down their own food. Now I tweezer feed them and they love mussels, bloodworms are ok and scallop and shrimp are ok. They also love snails, and don't worry about the ...

Yep!
Tons of plants!

I recommand you get pieces of wood high enough to cut the tank in 2 sections so it makes 2 territories. I would only keep the 2 DPs in the 7G. Adding other fish, IMO, would be too much bioload. 7G is already just enough for the 2 DPs. Also, otos are schooling fish that should be in groups of 5 minim...

Back from 4 days out of my house. My neighbor fed the fish and added the medicine. Also I got some bloodworms (the Ikari brand are enriched with vitamins), so the vitamins might help. I'm being careful to keep the nitrate at 7 maximum... It seems to be quite stable, no deterioration, but no improvme...

Thanks you guys. I've added Melafix and Pimafix. Problem is I'm leaving for 4 days... So no other treatment will be undertaken for now. I can't say wether it's worse or stable... the dents are still there, it's not better and did I see a bit more of a ragged tail? She doesn't open it long enough for...