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  2. Preston John
    My favorites are Paramecium, Moina, BBS, And Daphnia magna.
  3. Preston John started following Phishoto - getting fish to say cheese , Freshwater Pipefish and Spotted Congo Puffer First Fry
  4. Preston John
    The fry start out eating paramecium. They are ugly but grow pretty quickly and look like little adults pretty quick.
  5. Preston John
    @mountaintoppufferkeeper get job. I’ve only ever lost one between this point and 55 days old. It does get a little more tricky when you’re raising 600 at a time, but not too hard.
  6. Preston John
    I was asked what is the Most Bazaar, Odd, or Weird thing in your fishroom? Right now it has to the horse poop I have soaking in a bucket. It’s for feeding my daphnia and moina cultures.
  7. Preston John
    @mountaintoppufferkeeper I updated this image to include Moina. I'd love for a little peer review after you raise a few spawns.
  8. Preston John
    They like a little flow so either will work. They like to have a perch four to five inches from the top. Designing the decor with that in mind will make for a happer puffer. I think shrimp and nano fish make the best tank mates. Puffer at 1:19 I did find guppies too hard to keep with the puffers. They just overwhelmed the puffers. They like plants.
  9. Preston John
    @Keegan484 I became a Fahaka puffer keeper back in 2019 when I came home from work and found a Home Depot bucket near my front door with two puffers in it. One was about nine inches and the other about five inches. At the time my largest tank was a 75-gallon with Cherry Shrimp. I added them in and started researching how to keep them. Luckily I had a massive snail breeding set up so feeding was easy for me. However, they ate as much as all my schoutedeni put together. They also loved eating any fish I added. I was able to find a home for the smaller one pretty quickly, but no one wanted the larger one. She was always hungry and scratched the glass of the tank with her teeth. I purchased a 180-gallon (cost is way more than a 75) and put her in there with some peacock gudgeons. She ate most of them. She was the coolest fish I had other than the baby schoutedeni. It took a few years but I was able to find her a great home. I miss her all the time, but wouldn't take her back. But it did give me the confidence to try a larger puffer. Now I have a pair of Teteraodon duboisi. Fahakas are not for a first-time puffer keeper in my opinion. The cost of the fish is always the smallest cost of keeping them. Plus a $300 schoutedeni that can live for 15 years is nothing in the long term. Here is a video of the Fahaka. Don't let her smile fool you. She wanted to eat me. Here is my female T. duboisi And you cant pet the big ones.
  10. Preston John
    @Cinnebuns let’s see some pictures of the tank in question. That will help us help you;)
  11. Preston John
    @Leo2o915 Looks like a female, but I would want to see more photos from different angles.
  12. Preston John
    I’d keep them all together until you confirm the sexes. If you do have two males I’d move it to another tank by itself or into a community tank. Name it backup.
  13. Preston John
    @mountaintoppufferkeeper I just noticed the text between the photos. hahaha! it took me a few minutes to group them.
  14. Preston John
    @Colu Rhinogobius rubromaculatus @ColuOr Rhinogobius henchuenensis @Colu or Rhinogobius candidianus
  15. Preston John
    Made some fake phones and taped them to my tanks. After about a week the fish were no longer scared of me or my camera phone! Made a funny video about it. It ready does work. Please ignore my spelling.
  16. Preston John
    @mijTop one looks like a female to me. The bottom one is hard to tell.
  17. Preston John
    @darrengandhi we will need more and better photos of each puffer to help you out.
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