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  1. @anewbie A kasa camera V2 serves as all of the current "puffer cams" with a micro sd card in each for 24/7 playback. I set them to 2k recording quality continuous recording
  2. I dont worry too much about chasing perfect parameters I just go for stability. I will test regularly and primarily watch the behaviors of the animals and the look of the plants to decide if I need to increase my maintainence schedule. Thats a nice tank there. That said If I see something im less comfortable with bubbles parameters behaviors etc: 1. Maintainence : I tend to use a siphon clean the gravel and remove maybe 25% of the water with fresh of similar temperature and a conditioner. 2. Check parameters again: I do not chase parameters personally that tends to do more harm than good for me but I do : A. I use a little crushed coral or oyster shell flakes to buffer particularly when I run live plants to keep it stable for my plants and fish. B. Clam shells, snail shells, oyster shell flake, crushed coral are all present in this clip of a cross river puffer and limia vittata eating packaged dubia roach. The shells dissolve as the watsr needs them. C. Clam shells, snail shells, oyster shell flake, crushed coral are all present in this clip of spotted congo puffers eating frozen tilapia. The shells buffer my water and i assume feed the plants a bit as well 3. My "insurance policies" : A.l use wondershells for adding hardness and minerals while not raising PH. https://www.aquariumcoop.com/products/wonder-shell B. Situationally dependent: I will run a portion of POLY-FILTER (a brand name resin impregnanted rectangle of filter media) somewhere ,aI can check it. That absorbs excess almost anything in the water and changes to different colors based on whatever it is absorbing into itself. That gives me another visual indicator of what may be off in the water .
  3. I decided to move a "puffercam" and set up my lastest update to my spotted congonpuffer breeding tank. The intent is to make that contaimer their prefered spawning location. It should fill up with subwassertang in the next week of two. One puffer took up the inspection duties already:
  4. @HelplessNewbie Id also vote rainbowfish based on the fins body shape and that the tank the barbs came from had rainbowfish previously. Did the seller say what rainbowfish species was in that tank?
  5. I purchased the Aqualog freshwater and brackish puffer edition as soon as I heard about it in the glasser tour cory did at 18:30 in the video below. It helped ID one Pao puffer species and caused me to question the ID of another. So fun ....lol. Where can I find all the puffer log supplement pages that exist? All other puffer references of value? I found 2 pages and 2 lose stickers for aqualog so far. There must be more by now. I have tried aqualog, aquarium glasser, ebay, aquabid.
  6. Grabbed this action shot of the larger cross river going for his frozen raw crayfish.
  7. Found it ...eventually :). Pretty cool whatever it becomes.
  8. 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
  9. 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. .
  10. 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
  11. 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.
  12. @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 .
  13. 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
  14. Chapter 2 begins .... I either have 2 males or a male and a female but we got a shot ....currently 🙂
  15. This is the process i currently use and has worked on puffers in "less than ideal" condition on arrival
  16. I can say that the med trio took this puffer And the result was one of these four puffers
  17. 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)
  18. Lol ... he is a good guess. i was described as a redbearded sasquatch at work today true story
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. Update.... found a likely female thanks to @Leo2o915 more to follow tuesday..hopefully
  22. 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
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