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Hi there. I finished with cleaning and waterchanging right now and here is short video (sorry for those sounds, but need to wait couple of minutes..)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXJUdWAq2yY&feature=plcp
I ll make some pictures later..

What are those striped fish, flying foxes? They don't belong in BW.

Pufferpunk wrote:What are those striped fish, flying foxes? They don't belong in BW.

At least one had the stripe on the caudal fin as well which should make it a siamese algae eater. Some people claim they can do okay in very low brackish, I would take that to be 1.003 or below. The fish in the video don't appear to be suffering but I dunno what it will do to their lifespan as I've only kept them in freshwater myself.

Yes Tim, it is siamese algae eater. They are in tank more than 6 months and they looks healthy and happy there. I ll go down with salinity, so I think 1,003 1,005 will be good for them.

Hi guys, as you can see on this pics, one of my puffers has overgrown teeth.. I dont know why, I ve never seen, that he is not eating snails etc and grinding teeth. Will he die you think? Btw he is smaller a slimmer then other ones.. Can I help him somehow? Thank you..

That does looks like quite some teeth he has there . How often do you feed them snails and other crunchy food?

I can't tell you whether he needs to be clipped or can still be helped via increased crunchy foods though.

Couple pics from today.. ENJOY..

Tim wrote:That does looks like quite some teeth he has there . How often do you feed them snails and other crunchy food?

I can't tell you whether he needs to be clipped or can still be helped via increased crunchy foods though.

Once, twice per week.. Next the the tank, there is one small, 12 litres with snails and shrimps for them..

Snoopy wrote:

Tim wrote:That does looks like quite some teeth he has there . How often do you feed them snails and other crunchy food?

I can't tell you whether he needs to be clipped or can still be helped via increased crunchy foods though.

Once, twice per week.. Next the the tank, there is one small, 12 litres with snails and shrimps for them..

Is that one also eating them or are the others mostly beating him to it.

They are not beating him, but he doesn't care about snails. He just swim around and keeps it. He eats only blood worms.

After our puffer's teeth are overgrown,no amount of crunchy foods will trim them back. You must cut them yourself: http://www.wetwebmedia.com/fwsubwebinde ... tistry.htm

I am afraid of it!! Have you ever forced someone to do this?

I wrote the article & have done it countless times for my puffers & been paid to do it for other's.

All right. So go get the oil and try it. Wish me luck.. THANK YOU Pufferpunk.

Wasn't there a better way to sedate fish now instead of clove oil?