The Puffer Forum

go get yourself a rosey red minow.

Yes, it will help create 'waste', that the algea will feed on and then, your snails.

it's the circle of life, and you'll see your snails will be healthier when they have that balance....

MY congo used to sleep on the leave also. I had sand substrate but it seemed to enjoy sleeping on the leafs (it was well planted with java fern, hygro, and giant vals). So I don't think it's behaving that strangely. It used to hunt my Rasboras like that! lol.

I guess that settles it! lol

I know it's a No No to keep puffers together.... but I have to ask..lol is it possible to keep two T. MIrius together in a well planted tank (50g)? These guys seem to be less 'chompy' then their counter parts... but who knows. anyone have success stories ( or horro ones to discourage me) I successfu...

Yeah, I figured it had something to do with additives to the worm so they survive longer.....

how long do you guys keep your worms in the homemade dirt before you feed them to your fish? How long does it take for the chemicals to 'get' out of the worms system?

Besides the Miurius and Suvatti, are there any other true piscivorous freshwater puffers? I know the palembang and Abei might be an opportunitsitic one, but any ones that would be healthy to regularly have fish as a meal? My Miurius died when I went on vacation (the fish sitter gave it nightcrawlers...

The key to not making them hide is to have a very well planted/decorated aquarium. it doesn't have to be pretty, just lots of cover and stuff. I have my abei in 55 and had my miurus in a 35. Both are fairly active when i show up at the tank. I also have a lot of easy to grow plants and rocks (this r...

This thread is useless... with out picks!

I would like to see how a 500 system would look like! Amazing@!

6 inches? maybe a palembang? or a very large abei defnitely would not be a suvatti.

Oh Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was a piece of flourite instead of a snail. I guess time will tell. Tomorrow, i hope to see his stomach flatten... I would think nature must have built in a mechanism to deal with this. Considering the diet of the fahaka - the snails/mussels,cockles etc., and how easily t...

So what happens now? I dropped a few ramshorns into the tank and watch my 2.5 inch fahaka crush a few snails, then gobble and swallo a stone!.... you can currently see a little 'lump' in the rear of the puffer... will this pass through? it's a almost twice as large as it's eyes. Will they have no pr...

except for south american /amazon puffers , you really shouldn't even be considering having more than one puffer per tank. There are a few (irrubescos, suvatti) that you would be able to keep a pair, but most of the time, it's just bad news for both puffers. You will see it in the display tanks they...

matt77 wrote: One article i read said that this puffer is all most extinct in the river nile does anyone know anymore about this?

Thats soo sad... I hope they find a way to maintain this wonderful fish species.

you're cichlids won't go with the puffers... perhaps maybe a type of south american dwarf cichlid would fit alright? I don't think acclimating dwarfs from brackish to fresh should be a big problem... Since these fish live in rivers, the salinity can change very quickly if they travelled along the ri...

why so much skepticism? to say such a common species has 'never been bred in captivity' is a little too definite... i guess the best way is to probably drop the brackish water to fresh if you notice fry.... and then raise them there and remove the adults to a brackish tank... alteast that would make...