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I starve my dp every 2 days but have no problem with them eating my outher fish 6 inch silver dolla's i dont think so lol

You might want to read our article on Fishless Cycling. I;m always surprised how many aquarium shop employees still use the barbaric practice of cycling with fish. http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/library/water-filtration/fishless-cycling/ First time i have read about fishless cycleing looks lik...

So is it being barbaric when you do a water change........awaits of corse it isnt everyone in the whole world buy's RO water then put's all the necessary checimals back in it to pours in there tank ?

eieio wrote:Malabar Puffer, can you get live redworms or live blackworms?

Both

Yes, I've gotten the live bloodworm too ... but I thought I remember someone saying that they would not live for very long ... maybe a week, if that. I've put them in my tank and the ones that haven't gotten eaten right away are never seen again, I've assumed that they die. Ive had mine 3 weeks fee...

Here in the uk they sell for 4.40 dont no what that is in dollars and yes there are cute thats why i have some.

:D there may be a worm terminology issue here! :D ordinarily, bloodworms are actually the larva of a fly, and to my knowledge, are only available frozen the small, live worms commonly available, are usually referred to as blackworms, and sometimes as redworms they look like tiny earthworms, about 1...

Get two Dwarf puffer's will be fine in a 10 gal tank i wouldnt recommend anything else tbh

What do you mean by cycled a tank cannot cycle without ammonia. You need to put fish in only 2 to get the tank on going...........put fish in then Feed fish = poo = ammonia Ammonia bein cycled in your filter is turned into nitrite then leaves the filter system as a nitrate , nitrate being safe for f...

Hi Dean, I wasn't sure what you were feeding them in your other post (introduction). To be honest, I'm not really sure there' s a way to keep bloodworm alive, as far as I know anyway. The only thing I would suggest is skipping a day or two and letting your puffers get good and hungry and then offer...

Hi all new to the forum had my puffers for about 3 weeks now but im constantley going to the shop and getting them food as they wont take frozen is there a way i can make them feed on the frozen if not... How can i keep bloodworm alive if i buy in bolk i have a 1ft tank ready to use with filtration ...