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Willcav123
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Amazon puffers color

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Hello I am new to owning freshwater puffers. I have 6 Amazon puffers in a 36 gallon tank. Nitrates are below 40ppm, nitrite at 0ppm, ammonia is less than 5ppm, ph is at 7.8. 5 of them have full colors and the black almost blends in with the yellow. Is there a way to make their color to become more vibrant? I have one really bright colored one and the rest dull. I am feeding them blood worms at the moment. Please let me know thanks.
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Ammonia should ALWAYS be 0. What test kits are you using?
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Sorry it’s 0 I use the api master water test kit
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It would help if you fed them a diet of 90% snails or you're going to do a lot of teeth-trimming.
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I tried giving them bladder snails but they just suck them out of the shell is there a better way of doing it?
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C papuan
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suvattii
burrfish
T niphobles
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Crush the snails
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