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People with puffers, how do you manage algae when the puffers eat them all?
Shrimp, snails and other little ones get munched up so easily.
How do you manage?
u/avian_bi — 22 hours ago
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Any need to worry?
Gave my amazon puffer fish some snails this morning. And then later noticed his beak looked like this. Is there any need to worry? I gave some bloodworms to him after i noticed it to see if he could still eat and there was no problem eating.
u/PensionPurple6919 — 3 days ago
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She's been attacking the glass near the tank camera a lot today, should i take it down? I don't want to stress her out. Or is it something she's just curious about so it's jo big deal?
u/cznfettii — 4 days ago
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Cute puffer I spotted today
Was at the reptile/aquarium store buying food for my pets and spotted this cute amazon puffer
u/Gurren_Lala92 — 4 days ago
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Injury on my dragon puffers mouth
My poor guy has some sort of injury to his mouth! I found the glass thermometer I had in there broken so I’m wondering if maybe he tried to peck at it? I haven’t been able to get my hands on prawns or crayfish so it’s not an injury from his food.
His 40 gallon tank is pretty planted and has three forms of filtration(canister, HOB, sponge). The only reason there is so much filtration is because I needed the HOB to run purigen to reduce the tannins and the sponge as back up for when I have to quickly cycle a tank(for his live food or what ever). What would you do to treat his injury? I increased his heat thermostat from 78F to 80F.
u/mktstp — 4 days ago
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Spotted Congo puffer beak growth
Does my spotted Congo puffer look healthy? I am worried that his beak may be overgrown/his mouth is somewhat puffy. We feed him bloodworms and try our best to feed him ramshorn and a variety of pest snails with a bunch of snails in his tank all the time. Sometimes we crush them up for him or just let him eat the ones in his tank but he really prefers the blood worms and I am worried he isn’t eating enough snails.
u/Live_Emu458 — 5 days ago
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"Motion detected" mugshots of momo on my new tank camera
They're such silly pictures
u/cznfettii — 4 days ago
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Another successful breeding 🐉🐡
Pao palembangensis This time I added a slate tile under the log cave breeding site. I pulled the eggs aug 7th and placed them into a fry tray. Expecting them to hatch aug 17-18. The male ate the last one so I'm pulling the eggs from now on.
u/lessismor3 — 7 days ago
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Finally caught him in the act!
I had posted a while ago asking how often you guys have seen your puffers puff up after catching a glimpse of mine doing it a couple of times but never managing to capture it on camera. Well today I'm back and happy to report that I have videographic proof!
He actually does it all the time, I think it's part of his daily routine, but since there are no obvious triggers that I have observed, it's hard to catch him in the act and most of the time I just catch him puffing down and he's done by the time I have my phone out.
I have just fed him a big meal of shrimps & clams right after capturing this video and he is now belly parking in his usual spot :)
u/petrichoroma — 9 days ago
Mbu Pufferfish
This is the Mbu pufferfish. It has a Turing pattern on its skin. I made a video about the maths behind Turing Patterns. TouchDesigner files available for free here on Patreon, enjoy:)
u/matigekunst — 8 days ago
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Just got a Congo spotted
I used to have a fahaka and he would go after muscle meat instantly.
Some months later I got a Congo spotted puffer.
My Congo spotted is only eating my snails and blood worms. What’s the best way to get him to eat the muscle meat? I just have to much of it in my freezer now.
u/Agile_Quality1673 — 8 days ago
Hewbie is back home!
I carefully outweighed the benefit of getting Hewbie back home sooner rather than later. I can continue the final 2 days of meds in his tank. He is doing zoomies around the tank! I’m confident I ended up making the right decision.🐡☺️ Quarantine was really starting to stress him out too much and so was the declining water quality of having a 12 inch fish in around a 15 gallon tote.
u/AydenLincoln — 13 days ago
Mystery pufferfish
Found a weird ball shaped fish on the beach of the outer banks in kitty hawk last week. It was just after a storm so it could have been swept from somewhere. It has a greenish and orange pattern with a white underbelly. The side profile was a bit bigger than a bottle cap. Looked like it was puffed up from what I could tell. Didn’t have any clear spines but the skin felt prickly. Would really appreciate some input cause I’ve been wondering about this for a while
u/Connect_Brilliant778 — 7 days ago
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How do you entertain your puffer
I have a dogface and I try to keep him as entertained as possible and usually spend a good 8 hours a day with him just sitting next to my tank. What things do you do with your puffers to keep them entertained?
u/Worth_Scallion1526 — 9 days ago
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Spotted congo puffer tankmates?
I'm planning for a future tank which won't be happening for a while yet. Not new to tanks, but after losing my pleco due to a heater failure, I'm taking a break before trying something new. I'm planning for a 125 litre tank - I think just over 30 US gallons? (Juwel Rio) with a spotted congo puffer - I'm in the UK and have found someone who captive-breeds.
Anyway, this is the biggest tank I'll have ever owned, so I'm looking into potential tankmates, as these puffers are more docile and community friendly than others, but I'm aware I'll still need to use caution.
I've always been interested in owning cichlids, I was looking into more docile species now I'll have a larger tank, and was wondering about the electric blue acara as a contender? I read that the tank is big enough, and that they can be kept without a partner/shoal which will prevent breeding aggression? Would there be a huge risk of fins being nipped, or would it likely be okay?
I'm very much open to other suggestions too, cichlids or otherwise! Cories are a strong contender so far as I've enjoyed keeping them before and would be able to get a bigger group this time! Also a shoal of either neon or cardinal tetras. Let me know your thoughts and other suggestions please, I'd really appreciate it!
(I still do need to make a list with their required parameters and make sure they match up, but so far the puffer and acara seem to match closely enough?)
Thanks for any help!
u/-Daunting — 8 days ago
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Love my girl
I never thought i would love this girl so much. She is so interactive with everything and has so much personality. She is sassy and tries to spit water at my dad every-time he walks past lol. Only downside is now i want so many more puffers but live in australia where they are hard to get. Pic of my girl Calypso and one if my beardies Kai
She also lets me hold and pat her lol
u/AutomaticBird7769 — 12 days ago
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Ohm-nom-nom!
Small bit of wild caught shrimp is always a favorite!
u/Gnome_Acres — 8 days ago
What’s wrong with my pea puffer?
Hi! My pea puffer isn’t looking good (he’s really dark and isn’t wanting food). The other pea puffers he’s with aren’t really aggressive and tend to hide in the plants or in their hides. I’ve had them for a week and have them on para guard, which seems to be improving everyone else but him. I removed him from the tank but he is really weak and curled up. What should I do?
Edit: just to add a bit of husbandry info, he has been eating up to yesterday. I usually feed them live black worms and daphnia. The other puffers are very plump and well fed, which makes him an anomaly. Since I’ve gotten him, he’s been really skinny and dark but the specialized fish store I went to told me he hadn’t matured yet. They also told me that they were quarantined for around a week before being put on the shelf. There is about five of them in a fifteen gal, the other four being girls. The ph has been around 7.5 since i set up the tank about a year ago, ammonia nitrates and nitrites all read 0. Besides the pea puffers, there are no other fish and just bladder and ramshorn snails that have infested the tank.
u/Ilyathehockeydude — 8 days ago
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Meet Mr squeeshy
my boyfriend really wanted a golden dog face puffer. We travel to Florida for my birthday, I work for a local fish store and where we were staying was only going to be 15 minutes from one of the wholesalers we buy from. so we went to go pick out some fish and coral for the shop.
As I was looking around, I wasn't really paying any attention to what he was doing. He was doing his own thing looking at the fish, when I got done, he was standing at this tank with a huge dog face puffer in it. Supposedly he was standing at that tank for a good long while.
Ever since then I have not stopped hearing about this dog face puffer can we get a puffer fish? I want a puffer fish. So when we got these leopard puffers in I decided to surprise him with one. unfortunately we are in the process of moving so here in the next year or so you all will see a golden dog face puffer on here 😂 (he still wants one). We already have 125 gallon so getting another 210 would just not be realistic.
So y'all meet Mr. squishy, he is in an Evo for now but here in the next month or so my all in one backing for my sixty breeder should be done. He seems quite happy in here, and my boyfriend is ecstatic to finally have a puffer lol
u/Aquaticbitch777 — 10 days ago