Added more pants for my F8's

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Just a few pix. One, however, is always exploring and the other just hangs out and only explores rarely. I hope its a personality thing. Seems helathy otherwise.

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Reading the title I thought you had chucked some boxer shorts into the tank.
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lol.. I had the same thing ;)
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Me, too! :)

The tank's looking great.
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:lol: Yeah I noticed that too. Just a typo. :D

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I think live plants are great, but mine always die.

You tank looks great! Pants? Lol!
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What's the plant directly in the center with a satellite plant off to it's right? That is very interesting looking. Is it truly aquatic? I think plants can make all the difference in a tank, and to the fish of course.
I like the way you've got that tank set up. :D
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Oh wow. I think your tank looks great! Do your puffers actually use the habitrail tubes you have in there? I was thinking on adding some to my tank but couldn't decide whether or not my fig 8 would actually use it.
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Nice pants! I wouldn't expect them to live long though in the SG necessary for F8s.
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They are losing needles/leaves. :( I want a plant that can survive brackish water. I was told that these were hardy.

actually, qtrhorse, I just saw Nine-Ball in the habitrail tube and then swim out. :) I thought it would just be something to explore. But that is the first time I'd seen one of them in there- they seemed afraid of it for days. Then again, that could just be the first time I'd seen one do it. ;)
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That's to bad. I've heard java moss can survive in brackish conditions. Then you can make a java moss tree! Yipee!
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schismy007 wrote:What's the plant directly in the center with a satellite plant off to it's right? That is very interesting looking. Is it truly aquatic? I think plants can make all the difference in a tank, and to the fish of course.
I like the way you've got that tank set up. :D
Think that might be a Java fern.
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I just added two java ferns and a mangrove to my BW 40g biotope, but i'm new to plants and since these are supposedly very hardy ill stick with that until I get the hang of it. :) I heard those moss balls will work in BW but I'm afraid to try it.
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The moss ball is doing just fine! The new plants I put in - the tall ones with straight leaves- are shedding like crazy. They are getting all stuck up against the filter intake and I keep having to remove them. The puffers do like their bulk to hide in/under, though.
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I've heard of several folks using Habitrail tubes for their smaller puffers.
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