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After waiting a few months for him to come into my LFS I finally got my amazon puffer. He is doing well but he's way too small to eat snails right now 1-1/2". His main food right now has been daphnia which he loves to hunt for. Any ideas what I should I should to try and feed to wear down his teeth till he grows up.

Or if you had a canister or HOB on your tank you could put it in as is use carbon or purigen that would get the tannins out before it becomes visible.

The guppies wont mess with the pea puffer quite the opposite. The pea puffer would tear the guppies to shreds I always kept 1 solo they are so small you can do it in a 5 gal feed bloodworms and snails and they will suck them right out of the shell. You can try but I never got mine to eat prepared food just live and frozen.

I like high hatch rates because I dont like dumping unhatched eggs in my tank that sinks to the bottom and rots.

Cory did a video a few years back on how he shipped fish.

I use an old filter bag over a normal siphon attached with a rubber band when water changing my guppy tank. But cheese cloth or old panty hose would work any fine mesh fabric. when I gravel vac I do it into a 5 gal bucked and check with a flashlight for any babies sucked in. Depending on how many plants you have in the tank I would feed heavy and water change 2 or 3 times a week if you want really fast growth.

For me it comes down to how much food the tank consumes each day, a 5 inch Oscar eats WAY more then 5 neon tetras and in turn that food becomes waste which eventually become nitrates that you need to change out or have plants consume. Ethics also play a role, just because you change water every day so your 5 inch Oscar can survive in a 10 gal tank doesnt mean its ethical.

I would talk to whoever you got the guppies from and find out how much and what type of salt they were kept in and start with that. Then slowly lower the salinity after you get the fungus treated by changing water and adding less and less salt back each time until you are not adding anymore. Say you have a 10 gal tank and he kept them at 1tbsp of salt per gal and you did a 50% water change, add 5 tbsp of salt and every week drop that by 1 tbsp until you are not adding any extra salt. Hope this helps.

What would you guys consider to be the minimum tank size for a decent group of them? Thanks

Looks like detritus worms to me with no fish to eat them and a surplus of food they can multiply quick, the endlers should make short work of them.

I would get them back to the salinity they are used to asap. Then treat the fungus and after its cleared up to slowly drop the salinity over time.

@Jennifer V I have a tub I culture them in, scoop em out with and net and feed with a pipette. No need to rinse because they live in fresh water.

Mine really like hunting Daphnia.

I would do Praecox rainbows.

Ok thanks any ideas for tank mates? At the moment im thinking some dwarf neon rainbows because they like my water.

Hello recently ive really been thinking about an amazon puffer for my 29 gal. Finding ones not the problem but im concerned it wouldn't do well in my water 8.4 ph Max's out the gh and kh test kit. Anyone who has had a puffer in super hard water with a high ph what was your experience? Thanks