The Puffer Forum

xrayjeeper83 wrote:some water and a cheap filter(small sponge filter would be awesome) other then that all you need is snails and some food. And for food, algae wafers, fish flakes, some veggys will be good. Snails are super easy to breed

what about breed them with out filter i mean pond snailes dont have filters

When they cook it, the heat takes the nutrients away...go ahead and feed him what you have got, just next time you go to the store buy the uncooked...

Puffy is a cute name!

Snail breeding may be a bit difficult, If you feed crab legs and mussels( with their shells on) that should keep the teeth down. I have some GSPs that do not eat snails, and mussels keep the teeth down. Wamart sales a big mag for $3.50 (in the frozen section)

Here is an old movie of some of mine eating mussels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzONcFdiGhI

purplecandle wrote:When they cook it, the heat takes the nutrients away...go ahead and feed him what you have got, just next time you go to the store buy the uncooked...

Puffy is a cute name!

Snail breeding may be a bit difficult, If you feed crab legs and mussels( with their shells on) that should keep the teeth down. I have some GSPs that do not eat snails, and mussels keep the teeth down. Wamart sales a big mag for $3.50 (in the frozen section)

Here is an old movie of some of mine eating mussels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzONcFdiGhI

your's are no biger then puffy is but look into getting something like that for him

2 in the video died.

the really round one I still have, he was my first ever puffer...and he is the size of a golf ball. The other one that lived with really tiny spots is a slow grower and he is still about the same size.

I have one more slow grower, and another golf ball sized on and 2 bigger ones,

This one is my favorite..

let me get another picture so you can see how big they get

Actually if you look at all the reflections of "Puffy" in his picture his fins look very good.

hermionejanepotter12, Breeding snails is easy and if you need some starter snails to breed I have a ton of ramshorns and I could send you enough to get started as well as feed "Puffy" a few times. I also have an extra sponge filter for your 3 gallon tank.

Here is my thread about my snails, and how some others breed them. viewtopic.php?f=22&t=24240

Here is the forum snail breeder link. library/feeding/basic-snail-breeding/

purplecandle wrote:2 in the video died.

the really round one I still have, he was my first ever puffer...and he is the size of a golf ball. The other one that lived with really tiny spots is a slow grower and he is still about the same size.

I have one more slow grower, and another golf ball sized on and 2 bigger ones,

This one is my favorite..

the golf ball sized ones going to get biger then that?

JRC3 wrote:Actually if you look at all the reflections of "Puffy" in his picture his fins look very good.

hermionejanepotter12, Breeding snails is easy and if you need some starter snails to breed I have a ton of ramshorns and I could send you enough to get started as well as feed "Puffy" a few times. I also have an extra sponge filter for your 3 gallon tank.

Here is my thread about my snails, and how some others breed them. viewtopic.php?f=22&t=24240

Here is the forum snail breeder link. library/feeding/basic-snail-breeding/

its one of them three gallion cilender tanks and im glaid his fins look very good i guse haveing up to a mirror is an ok thing after all

hermionejanepotter12 wrote: its one of them three gallion cilender tanks...

That tank would be fine to breed snails, you won't even need a heater. By the way, does Puffy have a heater?

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=24361&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=15

Scroll down on that link and look at pufferpunk's GSPs (they out grew their tank)

JRC3 wrote:

hermionejanepotter12 wrote: its one of them three gallion cilender tanks...

That tank would be fine to breed snails, you won't even need a heater. By the way, does Puffy have a heater?

yes he dose

I wouldn't worry about breeding snails for him. Just be sure to feed him things like people shrimp tails, krill, freeze-dried plankton & other things mentioned in this feeding article:
library/feeding/feeding-your-puffers/

Great job setting up the 10g for him! By the time he outgrows that tank (at 2 inches), you'll have your mom talked into a 30g for him.

Pufferpunk wrote:I wouldn't worry about breeding snails for him. Just be sure to feed him things like people shrimp tails, krill, freeze-dried plankton & other things mentioned in this feeding article:
library/feeding/feeding-your-puffers/

Great job setting up the 10g for him! By the time he outgrows that tank (at 2 inches), you'll have your mom talked into a 30g for him.

hopfuley at least a 29 gallion used to have a 25 gallion but it got cracked and thats a releaf not haveing to breed them snales a creepy critters to me

yay puffy came to the front of the tank this morning and greated me
the cichlids being silly his taking rocks and moveing them and over the hole he made he dose a wiggle dance not sure what thats about but it sure is funny
i think thats a mateing thing

If you do keep all 3 fish, you're going to have to go a lot bigger than 30g. Start working on getting your mom to let you bring back the other 2 fish. You will soon have to start adding marine salt to Puffy's tank & that will kill the other 2 fish.