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Shmeck5226

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  1. Hello all. I am considering buying a fahaka puffer and was wondering if anybody had any input on whether any special precautions should be taken when maintaining the tank? Im questioning in regards to the fact that puffers are able to produce tetrodotoxin. I’ve seen some conflicting answers on whether they’re able to produce it at all in captivity, whether you shouldn’t touch them since it can be in their skin, or that the only way to be exposed to it is by actually eating them. I have seen the video of Cory pretty much petting Murphy, so that lends some proof that nothing really special is needed, but I’m wondering if this is something that is a bit of a grey area or if no extra precautions are needed? I really like to get my hands wet and do what I need to in my tanks so if that’s something that’s harder to do with a puffer I’d like to know before getting one. Thank you for taking the time to read this, and for your responses!
  2. Thank you everyone for the replies. I have a general plan going forward. I will start dosing potassium and iron in addition to ez green and root tabs. Unfortunately my budget right now doesn’t allow for a different light so I’ll be continuing to use the nicrew for now. I’ll give this some time and remove the moss if things don’t improve. Thanks again.
  3. I forgot to put that the moss was added a bit before the peak, this was probably an important thing to mention lol. As far as the light I’m using a nicrew light. The 12-18 inch light and this is a 5 gallon with a completely clear lexan lid. I’ll include the specs it claims although I have no idea how accurate they are. Up to when it peaked I was changing ~30% water weekly and adding .5 ml of ez green every 2 weeks (every other water change) and it was home to a betta and the shrimp. The betta passed shortly after the plants had started looking worse and then shortly after that I got this pleco. The pleco will eventually go into a community tank but it was much smaller when I first got him. Anyways. The last couple times I’ve changed water I had been doing more like ~50% water changes a week and then dosing ez green each time I changed it, (I wanted to be sure that my nitrates were coming from the fertilizer, idk if this makes sense though so if that’s not how it works please let me know) this water change/dose schedule has been going on for about 3 weeks. I’m not really panicking yet, but it seems every day I look at it they have lost more leaves so Idk if I’m even moving in the right direction yet. also I have ez iron I could dose if needed but as far as potassium what would I add if I’m already dosing ez green?
  4. Can anyone give me any advice on what I could have going on here? This is hygrophila corymbosa that I got probably 9 months ago and it has been in this tank since then. It started at about half of what is there now, and at one point was much denser than it is now. It peaked probably 2 months ago and has been losing leaves since then. My parameters are 0 ammonia and nitrite. My nitrates are 30-40 however I dose ez green. pH is 7.8 but that’s what comes out of my tap and that’s what it has always been even when it was growing well. I also use seachem flourish root tabs. Any guesses would be helpful. I’m sure something is missing I just can’t figure out what.
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