1st Takifugu ocellatus I've ever seen & he's mine!

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Just picked up 20lb & 40lb bags of sand & will seed with sand from my fuge.
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A friend dropped off 70lbs of really cool LR this week. I only had to trade him a handful of frags for it (gotta love friends like that!). Perfect-sized large pieces of rock for the base, flat rocks for shelves/caves & lots of other in-between rocks. Got the tank going today. (Killed my back for it though...) I think I have a real talent for decorating, if I must say so. It's still a bit cloudy. I put a heater in there, to keep it at the same temp she's at now (she's in the sump of my reef tank) & I'll remove it after she's in there, so I don't have to acclimate her to 10 degrees cooler water. I'm dying to put the puffer in there right now! I know I need to wait a couple days though. :( Chopstick is really gonna love her new tank!

I'm getting new bulbs for my reef tank, so I'm really excited about that too.
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"Chopstick"? haha that is cute!!
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AHH cant wait for pics
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Coming soon...
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geeze when!... its been like 4 months :rant: lol
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Well, I just got her tank together & she's been living in my fuge. Hard to get pics of her in there.
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Chopstick is in her new tank & buried in the sand!
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Congrats to Chopstick! :grats:
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Every time I look in there, she's buried somewhere else. Hubby thinks it's a wasted tank, since he never sees anything swimming. Definitely a good time for RTR's sig, "Where's the fish?"
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haha sounds like shes a character. you think she will come out with time as she gets used to the tank and new surroundings?
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Re: 1st Takifugu ocellatus I've ever seen & he's mine!

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Welcome to the club, PP! It is hardly rare for puffs to bury themselves. Fahakas are notorious for it, but most of them outgrow it.

I never caught any of the ones I had buried - they were mostly hyperactive critters for me.
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Darn! We woke up this morning to the smell of something burning. It was the skimmer pump. I have no $$$ for another one. I do have a bunch of extra powerheads & see a lot of folks using them for a Backpac skimmer.
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Im feelin ripped off, 4 pages and NO PICS :P
RTR wrote:Fahakas do not have tank mates, they may have swimming food reserves.
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Re: 1st Takifugu ocellatus I've ever seen & he's mine!

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thats not good! theres gotta be a DIY feed into the skimmer with powerheads out there somewhere
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