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  1. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Not yet but i am still growing the 4 new ones for a bit of a super colony. Based on the behavior of the smoother faced baileyi im confident I have a mixed group. Id say its a matter of time and an inch or two of growth until they happen.
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    This happened a little earlier than expected. I had guessed 12-18 months before they started up. Should be a good project to fully document their life cycle from hatching to eventually making F2 fry.
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    1. Two pea puffers in a 5 gallon could be hard to keep water quality up but if I had to it would be a well planted tank with line of sight breaks. 2. I havent kept bristlenose up here but plants and water changes based off of parameters can make many situations liveable. I would test the water at least daily until I had my water changes vs parameters figured out but go for as big of a small tank as i could keep in my temporary housing to make it easier on myself and my fish. I would consider fasting my fish up to for 48 hours prior if i were moving with them and then bag them in clean water as if i was shipping them to myself. I would pack that box in my car last and bring them with me inside to pimit temperature swings. I have seen people buy fish and use storage tubs and usb pumps running sponge filters to bring them home before. That could be harder to work if my vehicle was filled with moving items though. The bonus of that would be the biological filtration could be sustained on the route and not need to be restarted on arrival to the new area.
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    Grindal worms Each white line is a worm Group of clown killi. My females are a little deeper bodied than the males. They noticed me grabbing whiteworms the feeding port is directly above the middle of the group
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    I can only report on my experiences with it. I use the medium black diamond from the first link in a few tanks. I do rinse mine just to avoid the minimal dust and surface gunk that can be present in the bag. This study has some breakdown of the composition of coal slag used for that media. Table 1 in particular shows the range of make up of the product nationwide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5391280/#!po=38.7500 I use it in a few tanks including dwarf crayfish and cherry shrimp going on 4 years now with no noticable die offs in my systems. And congo puffer fish I also use pool filter sand and have a few tanks with no substrate. I suppose it is possible that shrimp might be sensitive to some of the blasting media product but its also possible that bad experience was some other factor unrelated to the substrate.
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    My 9 month old F1 palustris decided they were old enough to start spawning yesterday. I utilized my wyze cam to record the full process once I noticed the breedimg patterns on both fish. I affectionately call it the "puffer cam". This is just the last minute of it all. The color change on the female and behavioral change on both fish is kind of interesting to see in real time. Not quite like seeing it in person but a close second to share with everyone interested.
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    For me its normally java moss or a daredevil ramshorn gumming up the works. My fix is to reverse the flow to blow the obstruction up the hose a few inches then unhook the hose from the faucet adapter to let it drain into the sink. I just reattach it once the snail is gone. If its plants i use tweasers to.clear the faucet adapter.
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    That males have that tail stripe and are bigger for me as shown above by @Fish Folk. My group feeds throughout the water column in their planted 35 they share with some sterbai corydoras fry. They are generally good eaters and should really condition up on whatever quality food you have handy. One thing to keep in mind is if you can get them eating all types of food they are that much easier for the store and eventual customer to feed and keep healthy. My group regularly get live baby brine, whiteworms, grindal worms, and daphnia to supplement flake foods. They like the worms enough that they form up and wait below the feeding port when they see me grabbing some to feed the puffer fry tanks. Congrats on the great species they are my favorite killifish.
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    great suction cups on those also. It is this one https://www.aquariumcoop.com/products/ziss-premium-breeder-box
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    Happy 4th all Day 253 / 9 months ...... Fishroom surprise today F1 fry celebrating July 4th in a cave. These are from the October 23 2021 batch and are only half the adult size. But the ability to document the whole process will be great to further learn from this species. "Puffer cam" has been relocated to record the cave activities
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    @Cheryl P. I have a little experience with puffers. I would try any species below 10" adult size in a 65 as a single specimine and would expect anything below 6" +/- adult size could be bred in a 65 given the right conditions and pair/group dynamics. I would look at spotted congo puffers, hairy puffers, congo puffers, red eye puffers, or any similar sized puffer I like for a 65 gallon. Ive done Pao cf palustris breeding in a 75 gallon but they are likely doable in smaller volume. Normal colors male has a white belly with patterning females lighter green and more yellow belly. Male Spawning colors same male as above and one of the females above. They pretty much reverse color from normal patterns. F1 pao cf palustris fry I keep a group of three hairy puffer in a 50 gallon and will breed those in a 50 once I get a pair between that group and my group of four still growing out in a 35 gallon. I am growing out Tetraodon miurus congo puffers and have plans to try a redeye project like Carinotetraodon salivator.
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    good luck on the dragons they are a cool looking fish
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    So i found this guy at the cone feeder today. I believe its a lack of pigment but only on the mid flank both sides. Pie-bald ish. There are a few with this higher pink / less pattern that have shown in this F1 batch. They eat and have grown similar to siblings so far. Could be a weird phase or fatal mutation but it looked to neat to not share.
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    Your results will be great to hear about. Thats pretty interesting with the short hatch time. I bet they eat quicker than the pao as well. They are a bit of a bottomless pit when growing. They easily eat 1 or 2 times their weight a day for me up here. Huge food bellies then a few hours to normal size bellies and repeat. I am a fan of the "puffer cam" i have used the 24/7 video camera on tanks for a bit. You can often set a motion detection zone to get alerts and then go back and check and through the full video on the SD card. This is from a wyze cam and shows one of the female pao cf palustris displaying to the male in the cave just before spawning. My motion zone was just the cave and the grey rock to the right of it. That zone allowed me to only check the activity where they were spawing and skip the stuff outside of that area. The breeder box top left holds a batch of fry from a few weeks prior. The smaller fish in the background is one of the cull platies I used to tidy up the place from the puffers eating. The camera I have is harder to get close up detail on but is good enough to see what is happening with the adults. It was only about 3 feet away for this recording. It would be interesting to see the differences between the two once determined. This is an awesome thread.
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    @Anttwon So cool. Congrats again!! Id guess the hatching timelime js different from the pao species based off that. Id assume similar to the pao they will be around 48 hours until the finish the yolk sac and start thinking about food. The mekongs its more of a look thing. Once i see those eyes its pretty quick. I have noticed that they will hatch over the course of 2 days or so in my set ups. When I pull from the male I wait around 48-72 hours or so from the time i note the eggs in the cave or from whenever the eggs to darken up if i missed them being laid. I let him to do all the work of fanning and removing bad ones for me.
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    Update to update COOP powerhead with an intake sponge, output into a flexible hose then 3/4" pvc. I did the pvc bends over the stove using the salt method dean demonstrated for the indoor pond build. 4 exposed 1/4" outlet holes ; I zip tied some of my fish bag liners to block the extra holes i did but I have the option to expose as many or as few as i need along the back edge of the pvc as i want. Centered on the PVC "U" is a coconut hut for a little more cover. Next up darter purchase
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    Update. Using the battery saver setting on the coop airpump running to a medium sponge filter for a little filtration and movement while prepping for the darters order in a few weeks. Hung off the "bear deterant fence" (keeps them from climbing the porch normally) Temporary residents are a pair of Highland swordtails to help get us seasoned up and functioning as a system ehile keeping any bug larvae down
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    You might be a NERM if you stumble across anything and your first thought is I bet that would make a great (anything) for or as a tank or pond: dog pool pond Polycarbonate soup containers now tanks. from resturant supply store and sitting on resturant dry storage shelving
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    My goal is to track down a supply of these straight wall 150 CC / 5 oz jars and modify them for my uses. Anyone know what these are called /normally used for before adding the holes in? Its the best puffer "cage" for shipping ive ever seen. Ive given a bit of time to searching in resturant supply lanes and the typical online retailers. It is a white HDPE? straight wall single wall jar with a flat cap. Maybe a lab container of some sort. Its almost a short opaque ketchup bottle. Cap and jar threads Visible Bottom markings "150 cc"and "P"
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    I drain through a sieve, and rinse them out of the sieve into a container with tank water using a bulb eye dropper. Less salt water in the puffer fry tanks but also probably not necessary. I also have the idea in my head that that the first drain of BBS probably also gets a good portion of ammonia out of the hatch.
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    Thanks @Odd Duck. the yellow vs white is a bit of a difference in my mekong groups along with patterning on the belly. I defer to the spotted congo experts on this one I have onlybhad one years ago. Posts and videos by @Preston John are my go to reference for spotted congo puffers he is a great resource for that species. I believe this thread below will help you
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    Interesting. More a java moss than a pea gravel guy for this application. Should be a fun project to document
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    Thats a pretty sweet 1/24th scale slot track too.
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    @Fish Folk Im sold on darters and the spraybar. Slight followup consult: Say a pufferkeeper you know decided to upgrade to a 47"x12" foldable dog pool pond for this project. If it holds up its a 70 to 90 gallon seasonal pond that folds back up for winter storage. water temperatures 53⁰ to 62⁰ on this set up and will remain the pattern in the june chart through early September or so. A little duckweed, driftwood for structure, bare ish bottom currently, plus aspen leaves and some pretty decent pollen and bug donations to the system. I am considering water lettuce etc for better cover, and a portion of daphnia to seed it a bit food and filtration wise. May even just do potted plants of some sort submerged in a plant holder and try the @Dean’s Fishroom salt method to curve pvc for the spraybar along half of top inner edge of the pond. If i do that id cap the end anf just drill holes after it firms back up to have a directional flow across the pond. Do you expect Etheostoma zonale would do better than E.caeruleum or other darters in that set up?
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    Gotcha. Hopefully the range of respinses for options in one or the other or both helped a little. Did you decide on your 20 upgrade?
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