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I sent a pic if you still need one.

thanks! my mom didn't like how big it was, but i reminded her its my house and now she comes and visits her puffer grandchild

17) I'll add scarlet badis (dario dario). They are so small and so skittish that a beginner could quickly get bored with them. Besides, they can be hard to feed and may need target feeding with live foods. IMHO, any fish can be bad for a beginner and any fish can be good for a beginner. It just dep...

yes please put a pic of the filtration set up. It would be nice to see since i have 4 tanks is one room it would be nice to have one filter set up. Also I have had good success with dwarf puffers with my saps as well as just about any other kind of comunity fish from tetras, guppies, bottom feeders,...

i just purchased a new ehiem 2080 canaster filter and i can't get it to work. I have 5 other fluval filters but after doing a lot of reading and shoping I decided on ehiem. I have never had a problem getting a canister filter to work but i can't for the life of me get the ehiem to start pumping wate...

Well IMO I prefer a little of both substrate for my tank. I believe in my photos I have a pic of my fahaka tank. I have a Nice deep sand bed that slopes down to gravel. I also have a Slate rock cave/shelf that he can get into as well as a fake log tower. http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/ug.php?g2...

There is no way, no how a pleco can swim fast enought to catch a SAP. They are always moving so the pleco won't be able to catch them. Is this a standard pleco? If so a 30 gallon tank is way to small and is most likely to cramped for a 7" pleco right now. I would rehome now so that he can conti...

Live blackworms look like bloodworms and wiggle when you put them in. I had to use blackworms for my redline he wouldn't eat anything at all and now he will eat bloodworms because they look like blackworms i think.

i saw one baby today that was the size of a small ghost shrimp. I didn't see any others though. I wonder if one of my fish in the tank was eating the babies. I will have to find out which one it was and take him out. Those aren't for him!!!!

my first red line didn't seem to eat for two weeks. I was getting worried and now its right there when i start feeding.

they might like blackworms as well since they are very similar

both of mine have the yellow head and they didn't actually show this color until they were happy and settled. All of my puffers change their colors, stripes and markings depending on mood and time of day. So I wouldn't get to upset over it. Also i keep mine at as near to freshwater as you can get; 1...

i guess i need to stop looking a maybe I'll just notice them one day. Did you do any special substrate for the babies to hide in or just normal gravel?

Get a SAP or DP's they are the only semi community friendly puffers that I have found that would work in your size tank. SAP's are also very cool but don't expect your swordtails to have tails if you get either puffer.

Mine are doing fine I have them in a 25g for now and I put 1/3 cup of marine salt in for three 25% WC and have not added any for the last two water changes and they are doing just fine. Pure FW they did not do well in but adding just that small amount of salt made them happy and healthy.