The Puffer Forum

First of all, I'm located in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. So this is for Canadians in my area, not interested in shipping.

Looking to rehome my roughly 7" Fahaka puffer. Very healthy, aggressive and active. Feeds on ramshorn snails, marbled crays, clams, worms, other snails, the odd guppy and frozen raw seafood mix. My only reason for selling him is we just moved into a smaller apartment and I won't be able to upgrade his tank as planned/needed.

Also looking to package a 2 tier metal stand with a 15 gallon snail breeding tank and 20 gallon crayfish breeding tank. Details and pics can be sent as requested.

Looking for best offer right now and willing to trade for planted driftwood, community fish and/or cherry shrimp.

Unforutanly not in you area but I'd love to hear about your crayfish breeding tank. Was unaware that was possible in a home setup.

Right now, its only a 20 gallon. Plan was to convert my 65 gallon to the main crayfish breeding tank. Very simple setup of tank, lid, light, heater, sponge filter, some driftwood and cut lengths of pvc tubes for "caves". As the marbled crays are self cloning, they're all females and every month or 2 they become " berried" and give birth. The crays are very easy to feed. Eating any fish food, flake, pellet, shrimp pellets, algae wafers, plus some live plants like cabomba. Right now I have 3 adult breeders and about a dozen babies. I always raise up a few of the babies to breeding size and feed my Fahaka a variety along with his snails and everything else. I've never lost a cray to predation. Just keep them well fed and allow many hiding places.

Do they need a subtracted to bury in? I have a spare 29 gal kicking around this sounds like a great idea.

Gravel can help give the tiny babies places to hide if overcrowding is an issue. But if you just use a bunch of pbv tubing stacked like mini crayfish hotels, as well as driftwood and hiding spots, then I've found it easier to keep a bare bottom tank. You can see the babies easier when syphoning during water changes.

Sorry to have hijacked your thread about this. I have been doing tons or research on marbled crays and have been pulling supplies together. I may be closing down my dp tank to replace it with a cray breeder.