Hello from Scotland!

[Clare]

Hi,
My husband and I are currently in the process of converting one of our tanks into a species tank for dwarf puffers. We currently have three other freshwater tanks - a community tank, a betta tank and a shrimp tank. I'm hoping that people here will be able to give us some advice on setting up and maintaining our puffer tank.

Clare

[J-P]

Welcome to the forum!! DPs are really cool! How many were you thinking of getting?

[Pufferpunk]

library/puffers-in-focus/dwarfpuffercare/
library/puffers-in-focus/sexing-carinot ... rf-puffer/

[Clare]

Hi, thanks for the welcome and the links.

I've wanted DPs for ages, it's just been a case of waiting until we were in a position to house them correctly. We recently upgraded our community tank from a Juwel Lido 120, and now my husband has agreed I can use that tank for DPs. It's currently housing two rowdy angelfish that don't know how to behave whilst we figure out what to do with them. Its pretty well planted although I did some fairly heavy pruning to cut the jungle back a few weeks ago to make room for the angels and so some of the plants are a bit short and stubby at the moment. On the bright side, they are keeping the tank cycled for me. I was thinking of 5 or 6 DPs in there once some of the plants had grown back.

At the moment I'm figuring out their food. Live food is pretty hard to get near us. We do have one LFS that sell it but "live" isn't the word I'd use to describe the bloodworm they had there this afternoon. I read an article last year sometime by RTR on breeding snails (on Aquaria Central I think it was) but when I went looking for it last the page had been taken down. As I recall it gave the impression that snails were fairly easy to breed (it possible involved snails, water, an ice-cream tub and fish food, but I could be wrong on any of those points).

[J-P]

library/feeding/basic-snail-breeding/

that is that article in the library section

[Pufferpunk]

As long as you haven't spoiled them with live (as mine are), they should accept frozen or even freeze-dried. Frozen: mysis shrimp, blood/blackworms, F-D: krill, plankton, shrimp, worms.