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PuffMeUpM8
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New setup and First puffers

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Good Morning ladies and Gents,

Living in Greenville and just setup a 55 gallon tank for 2 Leopard puffer fish I feel that I have excellent water circulations with a 100 gallon air pump and a Sun Sun Canister filter. I have purchased 2 Java Ferns to entertain the puffer fish and looking to find someone hopefully around the area with some freshwater snails. To see if I could snag some for a farming tank. :ugeek:


I have been deeply investigating puffer fish and the water quality never owned a puffer fish but worked with African cichlids in my Dad's tank and I've had a community tank in the past.

any advice or help with building a snail population would be helpful
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Re: New setup and First puffers

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Check the large pet shops for pest snails in their tanks. You can also buy starter breeding stock off Aquabid or Ebay.
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Re: New setup and First puffers

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I recently bought 10+ Malaysian Trumpet Snails for my snail tank I am building but didn't know if those would be the best since they take a long time to mature
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Re: New setup and First puffers

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For Leopard puffers will Malaysian trumpet snails be good food for their little beaks? or are the shells too hard ?
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My Puffers: Filbert, the 12" T lineatus
Punkster, the 4" red T miurus
Mongo, the 4" A modestus
2 T biocellatus
C valentini
C coranata
C papuan
Also kept:
lorteti
DPs
suvattii
burrfish
T niphobles
Location (country): USA, Greenville, SC
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Re: New setup and First puffers

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MTS have been known to break their teeth.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...

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Re: New setup and First puffers

Post by Bleedingheartmommy »

Out of curiosity, what's your tanks current salinity?
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PuffMeUpM8
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Re: New setup and First puffers

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Salinity is 0%
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My Puffers: Filbert, the 12" T lineatus
Punkster, the 4" red T miurus
Mongo, the 4" A modestus
2 T biocellatus
C valentini
C coranata
C papuan
Also kept:
lorteti
DPs
suvattii
burrfish
T niphobles
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Re: New setup and First puffers

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LOL, no such thing. FW is 1.00
library/feeding/basic-snail-breeding/
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...

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