The Puffer Forum

If you have access to them, blackworms. My extremely stubborn DPs took only to blackworms and snails (one took to clam meat, only after I spent a very long time smashing snails, leaving the meat in certain places/stuffing empty snail shells with clam and slowly replacing the snail meat in the regula...

I'm asking because I prefer the look of fine light colored sand over aroganite. If you still desire a sand substrate, there is sugar sized aragonite substrates that look like fine light coloured sand and give you the benefits of having an aragonite substrate. http://www.carib-sea.com/pages/products...

Go online to some of the cricket farms. A lot of them sell worms also. My puffs love crickets too! Mmm...If you're talking about blackworms thanks but that won't work...i'm in Canada. There are no such farms that I know of in Canada, and the ones in the US are not able to ship across the border. I ...

Congrats to you both!

Phaedrus wrote:I think we're basically just trying to avoid excessively long lists and extremely large images.

So I'm cool to add back my three scaley critters?

Hmm. Was mine acceptable? I edited it to remove the non-fishie family members after seeing this thread.

strike2 wrote:They are taken from the amazon river ...

Actually, they are found in some rivers in the province of Kerala, India.

No, it is not just parroting, because I doubt there are very many folks left who have not heard that "salt" addition id not needed. The issue is that they do not either think or investigate for themselves. They are cattle, following the leader up the chute to the killing floor. Have to ag...

Yes, like everyone said, shipping and being placed in a store is extrememly hard on fish, not to mention then being netted and introduced to yet another home. Sometimes, if you get lucky, you can special order them and grab the ones you want straight out of the shipping bag, avoiding at least a lit...

Otocinclus like to be in larger groups. More is better, They tend to feel more secure if they have more of their kind to hang around with. Ideally, provide plenty of hiding places. They seem to prefer plants and foliage to hide in as opposed to caves and the like. If your DPs turn out to be very nip...

The real problem, as perek pointed out is that the industry cares more about selling product than they do about animals. There are not enough activists to get the message through, and the average fish buying public either doesn't know, or just doesn't care. It's a market where the fish themselves a...

Yeah, my java fern started to sprout out baby shoots like mad. They seem to grow mostly out of dying leaves. Not mine. They grow out of existing healthy leaves, but then the rhizome doesn't generate new leaves until I cut off the baby. It seems to "waste" the energy I want it to use to gr...

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A good outgrow tank might pay for itself from clipping sales :p I have a spare 10 gallon that I tried to culture snails in and failed (unidentified problem, likely some sort of heavy metal from their reaction). I just need a hood and canopy, and I'm set. Maybe the plants might absorb whatever kille...

I throw away clippings of my H. polysperma every couple weeks. It's a shame. I want to set up another tank, just to grow out clippings, maybe give them away or something. Seems such a waste just to toss them and watch them wilt in my garbage can.