The Puffer Forum

Ok my bad, I'll add another haha

Looks like an Icthyobodo Necator infection

https://www.aboutfishonline.com/articles/costia.html

Pufferpunk wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 9:57 pm LOL, try again.

Did it not work?

Pufferpunk wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 9:55 pm Congrats! Pics soon, I hope.

Yeah I'll post a video tomorrow once she adjusts and gains some color.

Hey all, just wanted to share that after searching forever I finally was able to get a C. Salivator. It's a female so not as cool looking as the males, but still awesome. I have her by herself in a 29 tall, and I may add some fast fish like cardinal or rummy nose tetras.

160ppm is only around 10 dGH, that's honestly pretty moderate. By extremely hard I'm referring to water over 400ppm/24 dGH

Agree with Pufferpunk, they'll be totally fine with the water as is. Softer water fish do perfectly well in hard water unless it has an EXTREMELY high GH. Also I wouldn't even add RO water, the risk of an inconsistent pH outweighs any sort of benefit it would bring.

I'm extremely confused by this post but species of fish that different don't breed with each other. Their genotypes are too different for the gametes to be compatible.

1. Slice of cucumber once every 3 days and they eat algae on glass 2. 6 gallon 3. Standard gravel 4. No light, tank is near a window 5. No decorations 6. I usually take out 3 medium sized ones for my duboisi and 5 small ones for my DP once a week 7. Tetra whisper 3-5 gallon 8. Around 7.5 ph, 10 gh, ...

I wouldn't suggest that either, as lurkers are piscivores. They're pretty inactive though, I would suspect that if you keep the puffer fed then it would eat at most like 2 tetras a week. The New England aquarium has a tank with a Palembang and a group of small FW archers and that's how they prevent...

I'm pretty sure that it's only been done temporarily in display tanks in stores. If it were to work longterm you would likely need a larger tank. If you wanted you could have one Palembangensis with like 20 small tetras, and they would get occasionally picked off but probably last a while.

It worked for me, I had a 40 gallon with two SAPs and an L82 Pleco. I imagine that it depends heavily on the species of Pleco, personality of the puffers, and setup of the tank.

I would say P. Cochinchinensis, but you are correct that they all look pretty similar

I did read the articles before even joining the forum, and yes they helped a lot. However, "Without enough snails offered to them, they would need their teeth trimmed every 4-6 months. I have both species and do trim their teeth often." My hope would be to manage the teeth with "enou...