The Puffer Forum

is this a modestus? seems alot darker in color than mine.

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I ID the snail in my area as "rumina decollata" aka "snail destroyer". Sold as a pest controller of brown snails or slugs. Hunts down these common garden pest as a natural alternative to pesticides. And also non-toxic if by some strange chance a small child were to ingest them as...

I think that there isn't much difference between land and water and most land snails eat vegetation and or other snails or slugs. Risk of parasites and bacteria would be the same as with water variety snails. I actually recently tried feeding these land snails to my modestus. I see that they may hav...

Alright, no special substrate needed for low maitenance aquarium plants. I'll have a little project for this weekend. Oh by the way this particular set up has inspired me. Very nice.

I wanted to start a planted for my freshwater tank. Can you just have plain sand to anchor those plants alone or do you have special substrate?

I can't figure it out, why would collecting rain water be illegal?

I to have encountered the "greenbottle" puffer. There were two of these nefastus as explained to me by the local fish lady she said that they were the only two left due to them killing off the others in the holding tank. Yes all three in my opinion look the same exept for the eventual max ...

"Limeaway" is often used to clean the shower. The water hardness is off the charts. I peat and drift wood don't even dent it. I'll stick with not messing with the water chemistry. Thanks for your advice though.

That was the response I hoped for. Thank you.

Thanks,

It's the same water conditions in Houston? How dow you make it work or do you have hard water fish like african cichlids.

I live in a hard water area outside of austin texas, flat limestone rich land out here. So most homes have water softenors for in home use to help protect the pipes. The water softens the water by using ion exchange with salt from a brine tank. My question: is this water fine to use for FW puffers? ...

Overeating bugs, I believe I have those little buggers in my snail tank. They are tiny little white flecks and only seen when I'm a few inches away from it. They just hop about.

Never say never. He has'nt done one for at least a year. I'm guessing that oscars are just super resilient fish, much like a large mouth bass. Will eat just about anything.

I have another dumb question. Is it possible to stunt the growth of my modestus? I have three of varying size and the smallest is growing faster than the bigger one's, which is great. I ask this because there is such an emphasis on Discus fish and WC to minimize nitrates so as to maximize growth pot...

I feed my discus fish live black worms for 2years, with no problems. Sounds like your source for black worms are fine. I am trying to breed feeding snails aswell. what kind are you trying to breed? :o K, thanks guys. I'm breeding ramshorns. I hear your typical pond snails are better because they al...