The Puffer Forum

Well i was umming and arrring for ages about this -

had some dps allready but had then also bought a 60gal tank which i was going to turn into a nice largeish shoal of SAPs

but having been promised that shops had them here and there and nothing ever turned up . So i was thinking about other fish and what to put in the 60gal -

i visited one of the lfs and thought bugger it - lets do it -lets save the dps from the fish store - they had been there for a good while now - and not grown too much - water looked bad- and no one had bought them -

so i thought lets get them - they had 12 in but one of them had died in the weeks they were there - i found the little dead one and he was sooo tiny -

So i took home 11 more dps - been studying them for the last few hours and they all seem to be females- woohooo - so thats 11 females to then put my 3 other females and 3 males. All in a lovely 60gal huuuuge tank -

theyve been exploring now and are soo funny in their new surroundings - next on the list will be to scape the tank properly and to get some more plants in there as it looks pretty bare with 7 plants in there - thing is my smaller 3ft tanks look packed with 7 plants and a little bit of decore lol - but because of the tanks size it just looks lost and soo spaciouse.

I have the 11 new ones in the big tank now and will add the original 6 from the smaller tank to the bigger one in a day or so - sweeeet

Sounds like that'll be nice

I hope it will look good and function well for the dps , with it hopefully being heavily planted in the end they will all live peacefully and hopefully fingers crossed get some breeding going on -

I think that's quite nice, afterall, those little DP's have alot of character, and I think you will be very pleased with them. I like the way they seem to get a pecking order once they get sorted.

I hope you will take some photos of your massive DP set up, I'd love to see it and I'm sure it will be fantastic for those little guys. With that much space, they might think they are back in the wild again. And who knows, you may have some little ones before long!

Good for you mate!

i do hope they breed - ill take some pics tomorrow and get them up of the new set up the 60gal - but this is some of the older guys in the smaller set up - before i moved them into the 130L Tank - again ill get some pics tomorrow of the 130L setup and some more pic of the little guys -







Here is my community set up -









cheers

congrats! excellent photos BTW!!

Oh cool, on pictures 2 & 3 your dwarf has the blue colours instead of black. I've only had a couple of those, and I think they are sooooo pretty! Yes, your photos are lovely, good job. Can't wait to see the bigger tank!

The biggest tank isnt very pretty at the minute - but in time it will look sweet i hope-

by the way i ordered some of that vitizan - ordered 2 bottles - 2 bottles of 60ml turned up last week and 1 more 60ml bottle turned up this week ?? the guy must have thought he hadnt sent me two and so to make sure sent me another - so im stocked up on that for a good while now

11/11 females seems unlikely. My guess is that some of them are juvenile males and you'll see their adult markings come in over the next several months.

Nice pictures!

we see what happens with them - no tell tale signs on them yet - and i think they are a very similar age to my original ones i have. on my original ones i can clearely see the wrinkles - belly colourations , shape and lines on sides - i hope they turn out to be all females -

Nice tanks! That dwarf gourami looks really skinny though.

The first pic looks like an I SPY page or like a wheres waldo page

the gouramis - eat like hell - same with the baby mollys etc




Right ive got a question about my dps -

i went to one of the better lfs today and they had what i thought were dps - they looked exactly the same as mine - however they were labelled yellow puffer -

now they loooked exactly the same as mine - same markings - similar sizes -

so can someone please tell me if mine are dps or not? The guys at the lfs said the ones theyhad - the yellow puffers were fine with other fish in tanks and wouldnt kill them??? so can someone help out?

Yours are most definitely dwarf puffers I've never heard a store label them "yellow puffers" though, that is very strange.

You may want to hold off for a few weeks before combining the new puffers with the old, if they are bringing in any diseases or illnesses, you don't want to give that to your healthy ones.

A bunch of females would be very cool, but yes, all young ones look like females so they may change up yet.

right - the store selling them as yellow puffers reackon the ones they have will grow much larger than the ones i have - and they also are saying they are fine in a community tank ??

i questioned them asking if they were dps and they said nope - and that they knew what dps were -

so im very confused now-

they had a good price on them there -