The Puffer Forum

I have a 5.5 gallon that I originally planned to have some hatchets in. I've since turned it into a lilght-brackish feeder tank. I thought these pictures were interesting. Care to guess what's in there?

Ok I see pond snails....but what are those worm looking things in the substrate?

Worms! blood worms. They were waving about together, looking like anenomea. The fiddler crab and ghost shimp eat them, and of course I put the worms and snails in for my dwarf puffer to eat. Waiting for the snails to reproduce a bit faster. lol

I'm (slowly) putting together my first puffer setup (thinking of going with a F8) and your feeder tank intrigues me. Are you raising the snails and worms in brackish water, or is the feeder tank fresh? I was under the impression that nerite snails were the only commonly-available brackish water snails (although I'm happy to be wrong because it could make life much simpler )

The bloodworms will be fine in a fw tank. Same with the snails. I'm actually planning on making a feeder tank too. It's currently a 5 gallon for my 2 DP's. I plan on moving them to either a 10 or 30 gallon. Once they get out I'm hoping to breed ghost shrimp for irrubesco, and I'll keep a couple platies or something in there too, to fill in the space.

Its fresh with a tiny bit of marine salt. They are breeding like crazy.

Doesn't the water have to be shallow enough for the bloodworms to get air?

I don't think so. They are multiplying like crazy as it is. So are the snails- but the babies are tiny. Waiting for them to grow. Only gonna take another year....

Another year! I've got snails in my pond tank (an old old old old 20 gallon with tadpoles, snails, and a lily all from my aunt's house) and they'll lay eggs and 2 weeks later their breeding!

I'm being sarcastic. They wouldn't do any good for their beaks at this size- too small and soft.

Ahh. You had my there for a while, a whole year, pffff, what was I thinking?