new f8 home

[staindsk1n]

I recently post a thread on the pufferfish expert who told me i had a rare sub species of f8 and that they like there salinity to go up and down a lot etc etc.....anyways here is pictures of his new home i built him this weekend, its cycling at the moment but hope to get him moved into it soon, i think he'll like it.
This tank is really good, it has a trickle feed filter which runs along top in hood and at the end it has a wet/dry wheel at the end so as the water runs past it it spins. Aswell as this nice little feature on it it also runs on just one plug!!! If only all my other tanks run on 1 plug i could have hundreds of them!! Here are the pics as promised.
I bought a silk plant and took sections off, i got some small pieces of lava rock and drilled a small hole in them and pushed the sections of plant in each bit, i also got my diamond core drill bit that i used to drill the holes in my marine tanks for the sump, i used it to drill holes in the large pieces of lava rock so he has lots of caves and places to investigate as i want him to act as natural as possible in his new home.

There is also an update on the puffer fish expert....i went in today to get 2 more dwarf puffers, they had a tank full in the brackish section, i found this strange. I called him over and asked for 2 dwarfs, he told me they didnt have any in stock at the moment. I'm sure i was looking at a tank full but who am i to argue so as we walked over to the tank he told me that these are figure of eights and that they will grow to about 3" each. This guy is unreal...i heard him talking to a family obviously just starting out and he was talking so much crap it was to funny. Anyways i got my 2 dwarf puffers and they are now back in freshwater as they should be. what an a**e this guy is!!!

[yunachin]

That is a very nice set-up you have there. I am sure he will love it!!

[crazedpuffer]

Nice setup!
Are we going to be seeing any pics of your rare F8 and your new little dps soon?

[Jase]

Nice setup! I'm pretty jealous.
what all is in between the bio-media and the sponges?

[clareanded]

Nice looking tank, look forward to the snaps!!

[staindsk1n]

i got some "polyfilter" in there just to take anything out of the water just in case. Then ill take this out and run seachem phosphate remover and carbon. This cost me £50 in all to set up as i went to see my parents at home and remembered i had sand a larva rock in the shed so i nicked it back! i just boiled lava rock for a bit and drilled it like i said. funny but its one of my favorite set ups at the moment!!! ..................Until the next one...........you know what im talking about!!!!

[By_a_coo]

Hi staindsk1n and everybody!

I think you could add more plants and pile your rocks up to break down the lines of sight, like I did:



They'll feel more comfortable.

PS: Sorry for photo quality, I used my cel phone to take it!