Getting a figure 8 puffer fish soon. Maybe in a month.

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Re: Getting a figure 8 puffer fish soon. Maybe in a month.

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LilGreenPuffer wrote:Go for it! While you're there, get a variety of foods, including some shrimp and whatnot. Don't forget to quarantine all live food for at least a week.
YEAH!
I might have silkworms coming in tomorrow, also I have ghost shrimp and snails in my pond. I can also get live, refrigerated clams from my grocery store.

WOULD THAT WORK?
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Re: Getting a figure 8 puffer fish soon. Maybe in a month.

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LilGreenPuffer wrote:You will also need to remove the snails and only put them back in at feeding time. When you add the salt, it will kill them, resulting in an ammonia spike.
Um...

The snails are MTS and they can acclimate to brackish and even low end marine EASY. I had a load of those things in my molly tank that was pretty much seawater.
Also they are both 5-mm I think.
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I've never heard of doing that. Neat.
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LilGreenPuffer wrote:I've never heard of doing that. Neat.
Doing what?
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Putting MTSs in BW/SW.
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My petstore doesn't have f8s right now.
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Maybe I'll order it online.
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Markgilst wrote:My petstore doesn't have f9s right now.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Maybe I'll order it online.
Is that one step up from F8? ;-) Will your LFS order for you?
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Dadof4 wrote:
Markgilst wrote:My petstore doesn't have f9s right now.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Maybe I'll order it online.
Is that one step up from F8? ;-) Will your LFS order for you?
Get with the times, old man! F8s are last year.
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Hey, you kids, get off my lawn! :geezer:

OK, back to topic! :hijack:
"Darwin swings...annnnnnd a miss. Boy Jim, Chuck's suffered at the plate tonight. He's 0 for 3 and I'm not sure he's recovered from that shoulder pull a few weeks ago. I'll bet the front office is re-thinking that contract."
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posted in the classifieds because nobody wants to sell me a figure 8 here. :(
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bump
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Going to lock this because it's already in the classifieds.
"Darwin swings...annnnnnd a miss. Boy Jim, Chuck's suffered at the plate tonight. He's 0 for 3 and I'm not sure he's recovered from that shoulder pull a few weeks ago. I'll bet the front office is re-thinking that contract."
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