mountaintoppufferkeeper

Thanks. Glad I took the hint in the live stream yesterday to use this amazing resource that is CARE. Single these guys are amazing group they are also amazing. I wouldnt do the hairy puffer group without the ability to seperate them if necessary. They have different personalities and I likely just got the right mix for these first 18 months together; no guarantee the dynamic doesnt change at some point so I have the ability to separate them into a pair or three individuals immediately if needed. They are a pretty amazing short list species to me also.

Look like Cory eggs to me especiallywith that laying in sets of two like they seem to be. I had my group of 6 pandas breed in my 55 with enough plants and good food it will get as successful as you want it to. Ended up with 180 pandas before I sold them off. When it rains it pours I guess. It was awesome to have giant cory schools in the other tanks and find them homes to support the rest of the fish eventually. Any update since the initial post?

best day ever on that purchase! Congrats. I use solient green on my shrimp also. Fairly new to plecos but i would say some sort of driftwood for them to chew on to go with repashy, green beans and zucchini. I have never had bristlenose but have had other pleco species both wood eaters and meat eater species. I believe the wood is necessary for many plecos to have good digestive tract health.

This was a very helpful thread thanks much for posting it. Would you suggest something like a terra cotta pipe for a Fahaka cave?

Thanks kindly. Its fairly sparse pending the next coop plant shipment for the ends. I may also try some opaque acrylic on top of the cover and a wrap on he back and left side to further minimize the shadows. The behavior is new and took a month or so to develop. It could be seasonal sun movement up here in the mountains. Always looking to improve the habitat. Thanks again

I personally like the aquaclear HOBs for hot-rodding ability for my needsand simple of operation ( few parts easily replaceable and I can see through the box into the basket). I run two of the 110s, 50s and 70s with no trouble in 3 years.Not very long but they work great for me. I mostly run them with the intake sponges from the coop, the sponge brick from aquaclear, and cut filter pad sheets from the coop bottom of the basket is the course pads leading up to the polishing fine pads at the top (depending on which i want for that particular tank) sponges and course pads for biological and polyfill mostly for the mechanical. As needed I will also add in the poly-bio marine poly filter pad from either toward the top of the media basket or bend it around the intake tube in that part of the box if I need that type of removal of meds or general badness.

4" nile puffer in 75G tank gets natural light she, we have decided she is a she, has recently started to spook occasionally maybe once or twice a week and slams the HOB aquaclear 110 the top etc before stopping and hiding for the rest of the day. feed her cherry shrimp, MTS, ramshorn, krill with vitachem, parameters all standard. would you put pogostemon etc on the ends to define that and the dither fish to chill her out a bit more ? any idea if that is normal for the nile puffers? not really an issue with the unique personalities of the hairy puffer colony members thanks

Ive been keeping fish since I was 5 in Boston with my dad. Took a break from 9/11/01 until 2014 or so while serving in Army and starting a DHS career post service. down to 3 50 gallons and 1 75gallon tend to skew to puffers these days. 50g : variatus platy colony, dwarf chain loaches (12), LDA01 (5), heavy plants, Cherry Shrimp (skittles) 50g: Crenichila Regani pair 50g: 3 hairy puffers full grown (18 month old colony) 75g: nile puffer 4" very chill so far, dither experiment: kribs, celebes rainbow I like working on breeding all my fish and learning from them. puffers are really fun for me looking forward to getting baby hairy puffers from the colony after seeing some breeding behavior early this year and hoping for regani babies as well at some point.