The Puffer Forum

Homer wrote:^ Don't take this the wrong way, but in all honesty you might as well go as big as you can to avoid having to setup a new tank at the start of every month till you reach the 125 you need, or else i have a feeling you might have a lot of spare tanks laying around...

No offense taken!

I should've been more clear. I already HAVE all these tanks except for a 50g breeder (I planned on getting one anyway...I found an lfs near me that can get them in brand new for $50). Right now these extra tanks are empty, but I am in the process of finishing up a fish room in my garage for all my african cichlids and for their fry to grow out.

I don't want to put the puffer in the biggest tank I have available at the moment as I don't want to exactly encourage faster growth (more swimming room = more exercise = faster metabolism) yet as I don't want to put it in the 120g I have until early summer if I can get away with that...if not I will of course have to make an exception! LOL.

I am an experienced Malawi Cichlid ("peacocks" and haplochromines, not mbuna) breeder. Currently this is a master list of all the fish I keep (does not indicate quantities though):
Mostly malawi fish with the exception of a few wild catfish (phyllonemus typus, synodontis tanganicae), datnioides, fahaka puffer fish, etc.

Complete list (I think!) of what I have:
Wildcaughts, F1s, German Bred, etc:
Taeniolethrinops furcicauda Chiofu Liwani wild colony
Lichnochromis acuticeps wildcaught colony, both malawi and tanzania variants
Nyassachromis boadzulu Kanchedeza WC colony
Tyrannochromis macrostoma var. maculiceps WC colony
Stigmatochromis spilostichus type adult group
Exochochromis anagenys
Protomelas steveni taiwan Taiwanee Reef
Protomelas sp solo f1s
Otopharynx lithobates Zimbawe
Aulonocara sp yellow collar Masasa f1s
Lethrinops albus Kande colony mix of german bred and f1s
Aulonocara maylandi f1s
Aulonocara stuartgranti Undu Neon f1s
Protomelas spilonotus Mara Rocks
Aristochromis christyi
Buccochromis spectabilis f1 male
Naevochromis chrysogaster
Copadichromis 'virginalis firecrest Gome' Gome REAL
Placidochromis sp Jalo
Labidochromis caeruleus
Aulonocara stuartgranti Ngara
Aulonocara sp lwanda
Tyrannochromis nigriventer f1 male
Tyrannochromis macrostoma WC (sold as maculiceps but DEFINITELY a normal macrostoma)
Julidochromis marlieri Burundi f1s
Julidochromis regani Kipili f1s
Lepidiolamprologus nkambae (kendalli)

Phyllonemus typus WC group
Chromobotia macracanthus
Datnioides polota WC
Tetraodon lineatus WC
Ancistrus sp. albino
Synodontis tanganicae WC
Botia histrionica WC group
Crossocheilus siamensis

Non-fish:
Gallus gallus domesticus
Canis lupus familiaris

Lot's of pets at my place


And a list of fish tanks I have. I THINK this is my complete list of fish tanks... Only about half of them are currently in use though:
265g
125g
125g
120g
75g
75g
60g
55g
40g breeder
30g
29g
29g
20g
20g-long
10g
10g
10g
2.5g

Well today I went to my crappy LFS (NOT the one I sold the extra fahaka too) today to buy some individually frozen krill for the puffer as it is a hassle to break off exact pieces from a flatpack.

I decided to get 4 small snails. WAYYY overpriced $2/ea for half-inch size snails... This is why I was asking in another topic about breeding my own snails...

Anyway two of these snails were even bigger than the puffers head... So I didn't think twice about putting them in the 30g expecting him to maybe only eat one.


OHHHH no! He DESTROYED them all LOL! Needless to say he is extremely fat at the moment and I probably won't feed him again until maybe Monday at the earliest... With how fat he is now probably not until Wednesday :roll:.

It was neat watching him eat them though. At first he didn't know what to make of them and was very shy. But after the snails got back upright and started moving he knew they were food... He still didn't know what to do when he got over to where they were... He figured it out though eventually.



Now this brings me to another question...

Until he is big enough to start eating market shrimp, crabs or crayfish, mussells, etc... Does he need snails like once a week for example to keep the beak trimmed or is krill good enough at this point?

just noticed the nickname ... you're on MFK no?

J-P wrote:just noticed the nickname ... you're on MFK no?

Yep.

Other forums I go on that you may have seen me on:
http://www.eastcoastcichlids.org
http://www.cichlidae.com
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com

and a few other small ones I don't go on often... The HCCC forum for example is one of them.

ahhh the only ones we have in common is here and MFK ... but I am not very active there.



dude that is a lot of water ... if they were all ful that would be almost 1100 gals

I'm pushing 545 gals at the moment with only 15 fish (if that).

J-P wrote:ahhh the only ones we have in common is here and MFK ... but I am not very active there.



dude that is a lot of water ... if they were all ful that would be almost 1100 gals

I'm pushing 545 gals at the moment with only 15 fish (if that).

If you ever take a trip to New York State, check out Atlantis Tropical Fish Hatchery. Just rows and rows and rows and rows of fish tanks... I think their website says it is approximately 40,000 gallons. I think it is more though.

Ever get off a plane in the summer in a desert or in the tropics and get blasted with lava hot air? That's what it's like opening the door to get inside that facility LOL.

ahhh but comercial does not equal hobby.

pushing a 1000 gals of water in your home is totally different

old thread, but do you still have both fahakas? i'll buy one of them if your willing to ship