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My male red eye(Irrubesco) seems more shy.. often when i enter the room he's swimming arround but then he spots me and goes to his hiding spot under the plants.

He does follow me with his eyes and never losese me out of his sight i guess..

Hello, i read ramshorn snails are the best to feed your puffers, now my LFS only had Apple Snails so i bought some of those to breed. (A big Male and Female and setup a little bowl for them).. next to the big ones i bought 3 little ones to test if my puffer would eat them. But coming home they still...

Today i tried feeding him some earthworms, i put them close to him and he went after them.. bit a couple of times but then the worms escaped in the bottom so i had to get them out to prevent decading.. But tonight he is more active again, he came swimming around a couple of times and i was able to m...

no he never ate much.. but he was more active and swimming around.. now he's just hiding and sometimes comes out for couple of seconds.

Will try some other food, and check nitrates in LFS.

Ps. I do thaw the frozenfood and dry food is not for him... its for the other fishes.. he doesnt eat it.

like 3 cm i guess.. any suggestions what to get for food that he will 'love' so he will activily eat it.. and not like the red larves or frozen larves, he just picks at it when it comes his way.. but doesnt activily come for it.

hello,

i just watched my puffer and checked it's belly..

its not really big, and quite white. But in the middle a brown collored stripe goes from the front to the back. Is this normal or is this a sign for parasites? And what is a easy way to check this?

1. pH = 7, NO2 = 0,0 (rest i dont have the ability to measure, will let it check asap in my LFS) 2. 60L tank, 9 Neon Tetra's, 5 Barbus Pentazona, 1 Barbus Pentazona, 2 Barbus Pentazona 3. Diet: Dry Food, Frozenfood and living red larves. Once in 2 days.. sometimes living larves instead of frozen. (N...

Btw,

its a 60L aquarium, tested the PH and NO2 my self with sets, NO2 should be 0 +/- and PH around 7.

Lives with a couple of tetra's.

Hello, I have my puffer since like 2 - 3 weeks. I added some more hidingplaces to the aquarium last week and since then the puffer just doesnt come out anymore, during the day atleast (at night i dont know). Also his eating habit is very strange, he almost doesnt eat a thing. I feed him living larve...