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  1. Grabbed this action shot of the larger cross river going for his frozen raw crayfish.
  2. Found it ...eventually :). Pretty cool whatever it becomes.
  3. Cool. Congrats. Its tough to see in stills. I do a video on the phone and make it a gif for the short videos here. Spotted congo for comparison And pao palustris basically tiny foodbellys with eyes from very early on I had a mystery flag fish fry before that made it through a sump overflow rack and multiple predators until discovered around that size. It probably went through the pump at least once as egg and new fry. Tracking that down now will update with that gif once found
  4. Thanks @Colu. @Kenaqua In that situation I put the snails in bloodworm "juice" for a few minutes then feed my puffer the snails with a little bloodworms until I get my puffer to recognize the bloodworms as food and eat them. In my setups I use vitachem and a drop of garlic guard in a container and soak all the foods I feed my puffers before they go into the tank. Even the snails and earthworms get that before they go into the puffer tank. My opinion is the puffers associate the "scent" to food and are more willing to accept other food if it has the same scent/taste from the vitamin and garlic. I would expect the bloodworm trick would also work to get one of my puffers to accept bloodworms as food. Mine get snails and worms primarily but i have also fed bloodworms, frozen krill, frozen mysis shrimp, and the tilapia in this gif. .
  5. Fun thread @Cinnebuns If I have a one bucket list is to keep spawn raise and document it all for my current species. I have written for amazonas the one time I would like to continue that and get into other hobby magazines eventually. Earning my master breeder award is secondary to that......but when I think of it I view each project as its own and im always learning something or discovering a new bucket list item to add 🙂 : ******** Bucket 1 ******** Spawned not yet viable eggs for raising Target puffer [Pao leiurus] "Not Abe's puffer":) [Pao ?] Unk Sp. ID Bucket goals: raise 2+ generations and write about them. Compare their processes to my mekong river puffers [P. cf palustris] ******** Bucket 2 ******** Spawned raised but improving my skills Spotted congo puffers [T.schoutedeni] Bucket goals: raise 100 fry to 1/2" // improve my paramecium and copepod ranching skills up here ******** Bucket 3 ******** Conditioning and learning their behaviors Bucket goals: spawn and raise raise 2 generations and write about them as compared to the other puffers here. Abe's puffer [Pao abei] Cross River Puffer [Tetraodon pustulatus] ******** Bucket 4 ******** Conditioning and learning their behaviors Bucket Goals:spawn and report on the differences and similarities between my C.regani fry a few years ago Dwarf Pike [Crenicichla notophthalmus] ******** Bucket 5 ******** Conditioning and learning their behaviors Bucket Goals: Spawn and raise them. Document the process and report on the process African Dwarf Freshwater Pipefish [Enneacampus ansorgii] ******** Bucket 6 ******* Everything else Find and work with Duboisi puffers Figure out good reliable puffer foods for me that allows each species to wear down their teeth as needed and keep up general health Determine for myself which puffer species do well as a colony and which do well as a divided tank. Find new challenging species to enjoy
  6. I have no idea on that switching between the meds personally. Ich x works for me when needed I havent ever tried paraguard. I just follow the bottle instructions and it seems to be very effective.
  7. @NOLANANO the grit has lots of probiotic organisms and a little vegetable oil. It is my understanding that is more to aid poultry in digestion of foods. I have never tried grit. I would guess that could negatively impact water quality with the microbes and oil it contains and would not acomplish the beak wear on the puffers. I have only done the flake form of oyster shell. That will say 100% oyster shell on ingredients normally. I think the flake mixes well in the repashy here i prefer it to the other non flake versions which are basically just chunks .
  8. They look great ! Bummer on the loss. Sometimes one is lost it in an otherwise healthy group up of puffers us here in the first months. That is normall without any clear cause in the rare occurance of it happening. I have not kept amazons but some of my individual puffers vary in food preference and will not eat as much or any of one food shape or color as the other members of the colony. Great thread Im learning quite a bit about amazons from you
  9. Chapter 2 begins .... I either have 2 males or a male and a female but we got a shot ....currently 🙂
  10. This is the process i currently use and has worked on puffers in "less than ideal" condition on arrival
  11. I can say that the med trio took this puffer And the result was one of these four puffers
  12. Thanks @Guppysnail. I do the coop med trio to personally and always have fritz accr if i need to dose for ammonia chlorine or chloramines. I have personally done Paracleanse (praziquantel), expel p (levamisole HCI) , pannacur c which [requires some math and a scale to dose] (fenbendazole)
  13. Lol ... he is a good guess. i was described as a redbearded sasquatch at work today true story
  14. Today I tried using easy flow sponge filter upgrade kit on top of a box filter ... not quite seamless but it works and makes those box filters silent Easy flow kit used: https://www.aquariumcoop.com/collections/filtration/products/easy-flow-sponge-filter-upgrade-kit
  15. They bring the puffer for sure very interactive So far they have all been very friendly the one here had no interest in them at all just his food.... whixh was frozen tilapia that meal
  16. Update.... found a likely female thanks to @Leo2o915 more to follow tuesday..hopefully
  17. Congrats cool tank ! I have not personally kept amazons but I have kept 11 species of puffers so far most in breeding colonies and some care is probably applicable. I do know a few who have and have taken the journey with them. I would defer to the experts on amazons but in my opinion: Teeth are a concern for some puffers more than others but the amazons seem to be the quickest to grow from what i hear about them. I feed my puffers primarily snails, shrimp, tilapia, repashy, ecobugs, dubia roaches, earthworms. i havent tried the puffer'pashy in the below video much but it has worked on a couple of puffers. I think the tooth growth for them is more often than not an "eventual" issue but its basically like trimming a dogs nails when it does happen. Here are a few articles on them i had to google translate this when it opened: https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:43866 One more paper https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02514.x There may be more on scholar.google.com it is a good resource for research on many species generally from peer reviewed journals and field research. Dan's fish , coop affiliate for fish, currently has great videos on them linked below: Thanks for the heads up @nabokovfan87
  18. @Colu i believe so. The intention was get a mix of males and females and build up from there. Still learning but I believe the males are darker and a little bigger for holding the fry
  19. The new members of the fishroom have arrived. Enneacampus ansorgii freshwater african pipefiah collected in Cameroon. They are a pretty cool very little species so far. Looking forward to raising a tankful of these once I get the process sorted. 40 breeder that gets some morning sun: four pipefish, snails, scuds, They seemed to start feeding on rotifers in the water immediately and a few grindal worms i put in for them
  20. @Lennie im curious on the brackialsh and goby SME answers. For the identification this publication lists more about gobies than I knew prior to finding it today. It does cover many brachygobius species taxonomy starting l at page 51 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=A+revision+of+the+gobiid+fish+genus+Mugilogobius+(Teleostei%3A+Gobioidei)%2C+and+its+systematic+placement&btnG= This field study only found xanthomelas in pure freshwater (Easiest way to search nih study is save as pdf and find by scientific name) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9169113/ Salinity is a cool variable. Some studies note variances in salinity can change the digestive processes and functions in some species. That will be a fun project to hear about.
  21. I have not yet taken the brackish step yet but @Biotope Biologist may have just convinced me:). @Lennie just based on the puffers I keep and success vs food results with tankmates, i would look more to mollies or more figure 8s. I have always had more success with midwater speed and agility than bottom dwelling. If i was doing brackish i think id try my hand at nerite snail ranching as a food and just the normal food earthworms, ramshorns, pond snails etc. I would be a little more careful on the amount until I figured out how long the food could go in the salinity i ran my brackish puffer at. I havent found any research on differences on belly color in figure 8s. In Pao puffers often the male has a darker pattern or base color on the belly. Most puffers ive kept change intensity and pattern based off mood etc...a darker belly could just be how that puffer decided to show that day
  22. Thanks @Chick-In-Of-TheSea. @anya it depends on your preferences l and what is available. Sorry on the slight delay: I feed variety as much as possible to avoid nutritional deficencies and keep puffers enriched and willing to eat new foods and use varied feeding strategies. My personal experience is if my hairys are conditioned to a feeding schedule of easy meals they wont go out of their way to actively hunt mid and top water fish that are fast and aware....but they will set ambushes in prefered locations if the fish happens to swim into it its food. Some will bait their ambush with a piece of food to lure a fish in. Ive found they each have different food preferences by individual puffer . I do earthworms, frozen tilapia strips, livebearer culls, and the rest of my below list for hairys. I have never personally seen the issue with lockjaw from thiaminase rich food. I feed a variety of food to all my puffers including hairys and i use vitamen supplements (vita chem) so that might be helping prevent the vitamin deficency thiaminase is reported to cause. Frozen 50% of diet +/- Frozen strips of tilapia ( i freeze with 6 or so drops of vitachem and a drop of garlic guard per strip) Frozen krill ( i freeze with two squirts or so of vitachem and a few drops of garlic guard per flat ) Frozen raw crayfish ( i recieve frozen and repack with 6 or so drops of vitachem and a drop of garlic guard per crayfish) The tilapia has mostly replaced the krill due to easy of prep, easy of purchase, and a closer to nature food source for an ambush puffer. Live foods 40% of diet +/- Earthworms - cultured here on organic greens in a worm farm in the fishroom snails : cultured and fed with repashy gel foods, extreme fish food, and organic vegetables. Cull livebearers: from other tanks cultured and fed with repashy gel foods, extreme fish food, and organic vegetables or polycultured livebearers in their tanks why are feeding off of the cleanliness of puffers feeding Fresh (not alive) 10% of diet Dubia roaches, crickets, superworms, soldierfly larvae ( ecofresh currently)
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