Pix of my GSP
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- c333davis
- Figure 8 Puffer
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Pix of my GSP
Here's my baby!
The lighting conditions and photo quality in these pictures vary... the puffer subject is my GSP, approximately four months old, who lives in a 26-gal bowfront aquarium at 1.018sg, with three ghost shrimp.
The lighting conditions and photo quality in these pictures vary... the puffer subject is my GSP, approximately four months old, who lives in a 26-gal bowfront aquarium at 1.018sg, with three ghost shrimp.
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~ Candice
With the following creatures in various tanks:
1 GSP with live rock and red mushrooms (viewtopic.php?f=9&t=25686)
1 Red-ear Slider Turtle—32-yrs-old!
1 African Cichlid - not sure of species
2 Green Terror Cichlids
2 Jack Dempsey Cichlids
~30 Jewel Cichlids
With the following creatures in various tanks:
1 GSP with live rock and red mushrooms (viewtopic.php?f=9&t=25686)
1 Red-ear Slider Turtle—32-yrs-old!
1 African Cichlid - not sure of species
2 Green Terror Cichlids
2 Jack Dempsey Cichlids
~30 Jewel Cichlids
- xrayjeeper83
- Mbu Puffer
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- Location: Orange Park, FL
Re: Pix of my GSP
Awesome looking tank, GSP looks nice and fat.
and hello from OP
and hello from OP
RTR wrote:Fahakas do not have tank mates, they may have swimming food reserves.
- pufferpuggirl
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Rainbow crab
crayfish - Location (country): Yorkshire, GB
- Location: South Yorkshire, UK
Re: Pix of my GSP
Wow! Your tank is beautiful. I'd say that's one lucky GSP.
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Re: Pix of my GSP
Lookin good! Really like the deco and the tank, cute gsp too!
Master Yoda the Fahaka and Manny the Mantis Shrimp! - R.I.P R2 & 3PO (F8), Luke (dwarf), Snips (Ceylon) and Obi 1-3 (Valentini)
Re: Pix of my GSP
nice healthy looking gsp, has he not tried to eat the shrimp yet
- c333davis
- Figure 8 Puffer
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- Joined: Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:10 pm
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Re: Pix of my GSP
Thanks for the nice comments!
davew, I did put the ghost shrimp in there so that he'd eat them, but many weeks later, he still just swims slowly around them, eyeballing them and sometimes snatching away any food scraps that they recover from his messy eating habits. I started referring to the three shrimp by the names "Breakfast", "Lunch", and "Dinner" so that he'd take the hint.
xrayjeeper83, hi from Avondale! Since you're from my general area, check out my post entitled Stores in Jacksonville FL and add anything that you can.
davew, I did put the ghost shrimp in there so that he'd eat them, but many weeks later, he still just swims slowly around them, eyeballing them and sometimes snatching away any food scraps that they recover from his messy eating habits. I started referring to the three shrimp by the names "Breakfast", "Lunch", and "Dinner" so that he'd take the hint.
xrayjeeper83, hi from Avondale! Since you're from my general area, check out my post entitled Stores in Jacksonville FL and add anything that you can.
~ Candice
With the following creatures in various tanks:
1 GSP with live rock and red mushrooms (viewtopic.php?f=9&t=25686)
1 Red-ear Slider Turtle—32-yrs-old!
1 African Cichlid - not sure of species
2 Green Terror Cichlids
2 Jack Dempsey Cichlids
~30 Jewel Cichlids
With the following creatures in various tanks:
1 GSP with live rock and red mushrooms (viewtopic.php?f=9&t=25686)
1 Red-ear Slider Turtle—32-yrs-old!
1 African Cichlid - not sure of species
2 Green Terror Cichlids
2 Jack Dempsey Cichlids
~30 Jewel Cichlids
Re: Pix of my GSP
i't's probably only a matter of time until he eats them, i had a red clawed crab in with my two gsp's and he was in there for about 5 months then suddenly they decided to eat him
- pufferpuggirl
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1 x T Schoutedeni
1 x T Leiurus
1 x T Miurus
Rainbow crab
crayfish - Location (country): Yorkshire, GB
- Location: South Yorkshire, UK
Re: Pix of my GSP
I had a huge Panther crab in with my Mbu for several months, and although BeeBoo didn't actually eat him, he did bite him hard enough to crush his shell and thereby causing his death eventually. The odd thing is that the crab would often sit out in the open and BeeB would ignore it. I guess it was too hard to ignore one day.
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Re: Pix of my GSP
Beautiful Tank. So natural. Only suggestion I might give is if you intend to keep him BW id lower the SG a TAD(JMO). My GSP seemed to have a greyish coloring between 1.015-1.018. I keep them in marine levels now but if I was to go back BW id prolly keep him at 1.012-1.014. MArine did make mine perk up and be less grey. Other than that your tank is one of the better ones Ive seen lately. Very nice. Makes me want to re-do my FW tanks. Sure u didnt have a fancy aquascaper stop by?
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- PolishPuff
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Re: Pix of my GSP
Great looking tank
Your puffer looks healthy and happy
Your puffer looks healthy and happy
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- By_a_coo
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Re: Pix of my GSP
Really nice tank! It looks so natural... Congrats!
I'm sure you GSP is a very busy puffer in there!
I'm sure you GSP is a very busy puffer in there!
Fernando
- c333davis
- Figure 8 Puffer
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Re: Pix of my GSP
SammyDee, seems like mine's grey comes and goes... mostly present when he thinks I'm going to feed him. I assumed it was his war-paint for hunting dinner. He's often paler yellow-green in the a.m.SammyDee wrote:Only suggestion I might give is if you intend to keep him BW id lower the SG a TAD(JMO). My GSP seemed to have a greyish coloring between 1.015-1.018. I keep them in marine levels now but if I was to go back BW id prolly keep him at 1.012-1.014. MArine did make mine perk up and be less grey.
I like the idea of taking him to 1.020 to see how it benefits him... I'll confess that I'm a little intimidated by the thought (and the cost) of a protein skimmer that I assume is necessary at marine levels. I need to read up on the equipment to get more familiar with what's involved.
Very kind of you to say! I am an out-of-work training designer/tech writer at the moment, so maybe I should consider an alternate career path... (jk, but how cool would that be, to make a living at aquascaping?!)SammyDee wrote:Other than that your tank is one of the better ones Ive seen lately. Very nice. Makes me want to re-do my FW tanks. Sure u didnt have a fancy aquascaper stop by?
~ Candice
With the following creatures in various tanks:
1 GSP with live rock and red mushrooms (viewtopic.php?f=9&t=25686)
1 Red-ear Slider Turtle—32-yrs-old!
1 African Cichlid - not sure of species
2 Green Terror Cichlids
2 Jack Dempsey Cichlids
~30 Jewel Cichlids
With the following creatures in various tanks:
1 GSP with live rock and red mushrooms (viewtopic.php?f=9&t=25686)
1 Red-ear Slider Turtle—32-yrs-old!
1 African Cichlid - not sure of species
2 Green Terror Cichlids
2 Jack Dempsey Cichlids
~30 Jewel Cichlids
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- Mbu Puffer
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- Joined: Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:50 am
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- My Puffers: 55g (2) GSP, (2) Maroon Clownfish, (1) blue damsel, And some soft corals and 1 Nem
45g FW community
20g snail and shrimp breeding tank for puffers - Location (country): USA USA USA USA
- Location: Detroit, Michigan
Re: Pix of my GSP
Seriously I have no doubt youd be fine in SW if you made that tank. IF you did consider the SW path, try CL. I bought a skimmer,sump with bioballs and return pump for 150$. Not the best stuff in the world but it does the job i need it to do and well, so thats all that matters to me. You should have a look on Youtube at "LAFISHGUYS" how to setup a reef tank. Plus he has tons of other tutorial like videos that are all worthy being an actual TV show thats how well theyre put together. Just try a search for LAfishguy and watch some of his vids when your board or try lafishguys.com Youtube loads faster thou. He helped alot for me when I was trying to understand the different equipments and there purposes. It just was easier to see it all in action and actually learn from it.
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