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  1. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Captured a decent hairy puffer colony photo. Pretty sure these are the pair 🙂
  2. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Yeah I figure ill run it with about 250 gallons of water and 150lbs of pool filter sand. That plus the tank itself and the stand is basically the weight of parking a car down there. The fishroom.is in the walkout basement
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    The general idea is this sketch. The difference is the rack will be 3 blocks long then one sideways Using these 16x8x8 blocks And 3/4" maple plywood in 2'x4' sections like the drawing. For this 270 gallon Anyone done this kind of stand ? How far much of an overlap of plywood to block would you do? I am considering doing a cap stone for more surface area and resting the plywood on that vs the open block. Any guidance on this one much appreciated.
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    This arrived earlier than expected.... so much for the 11th at the earliest 🙂. My first bigger tank @ 270 gallons. Now to build the block and 3/4" plywood stand and move it in from under the porch asap. One of the 5 Pao abei with a pretty good food belly tonight
  5. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Those Red Cherry Tetras look cool. I saw them up in boulder colorado..... Just a few nickles.
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    @nabokovfan87 I would guess more camera trickery more than eye issue. Similar to mekongs /palustris. These are F1palustris with a similar reflection Both new groups will go through the med trio and a few more rounds of deworming.
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    I did a thing again lol ..... Started a colony of Pao abei We are day one pretty recently arrived to the US. We have some deworming etc to run through still. And a group of Pao leiurus He was pretty sure that blood worm cube had a dangerous side. Got a clip of the Spotted congo fry. They are still growing out nicely
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    I suggest looking at whiteworms for pea puffers. I do both grindal and white worms soil-less on scrubber pads they produce a ton of worms no smell and no bug issues. Whiteworms are regularly fed to smaller puffers up here. Thinner species of earthworms would also be a hit im sure.
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    @CJs Aquatics thats even more awesome than i pictured. Great stuff thanks for sharing
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    @Preston John much thanks. Im getting there slowly on the food size timeline for my setup here. I figured once to eating BBS reliably it would be the same process as the Pao palustris from then on. Ill have improve my paramecium, rotifer, and copepod culture skills a bit more for 600 at a time. They have been very rewarding to learn from to this point of growth.
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    @nabokovfan87 Variety, the spice of fry life maybe. Im not too sure on nutrition values either but I bet it would be some benefit. The shrimplet sizes matching the puffer could be a challenge. @Chick-In-Of-TheSeaThanks kindly. The photos and video are primarily why I replaced my older phone with a Samsung S23 Ultra . My intention was to get better video and photos of fry (if I was fortunate enough to have more fry); it gets much more use as a camera and "handtop computer" than it does making or recieving calls.
  12. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    @nabokovfan87I have had shrimp in the past. I never considered shrimplets as an option for fry of appropriate size until you mentioned it. I think that could work 🤔
  13. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Today was day 1 if brine shrimp. The 4 remaining from 5 should raise up using the usual puffer foods now.
  14. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Looks awesome from here
  15. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Definately. Posted 🙂
  16. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Spotted congo fry (finally) feeding on adult copepods. Back puffer fry grabs one in this. They are pretty tiny fry still; for comparison, the black dots moving on the bottom are seed shrimp
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    Today there is a noticable size increase in 3 of the 5 fry this run. I took a decent clip of copepods being on the day 11 menu. Top back spotted congo must have zeroed in on a tasty one there.
  18. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Congrats thats great. They are a pretty awesome species to breed. I guess they are conditioned 🙂
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    @Colu thats a tough one @troublelunsford I havent ever had that particular issue. Are the marks growing? I did have a puffer who punctured themselves on some driftwood and eventually healed. That was a deeper wound annd not quite that look. Are the marks growing? I cant imagine a fahaka puffer letting itself get gnawed on like that but anything is possible. Ive seen a more shallow white mark like that on a hairy puffer before who would lay against a heater regularly. I have no idea if heaters burn but it seemed like a burn to me. That puffer is fine 6 years later. Could that have been caused by pickle lying against a heater or running into decor and getting a scrape ? In general I use meds as a last option change water observe behavior while the puffer is eating and when they are hanging out throughout the day after an injury. I just stick with the COOP med trio when I need a med. I have not tried the melafix but if i were treating a wound like that id also try antibacterial med. Anyone else have experience with similar looking disease/injury?
  20. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    I generally go with option 1 since thats what often came to me first. They all sound pretty great though
  21. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    @Dork Fish i believe the green spotted is brackish i meant to say the spotted congo which is freshwater. This is my go to website for learning about them. https://www.spottedcongopuffer.com/
  22. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    They all have their quirks but I think the pea puffers were probably the puffer that Ive kept which ate most everything I fed them and could be housed in a smaller tank. I dont run puffers with other fish normally but I would guess the spotted congo would be worth a look. They can generally be housed with other fish. My group of 4 puffers had a few baby limia vitatta that hitched a eide on snails with them before i netted them back out. They are all fun for me though
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    Yeah im a bit of a shelled food and other miscellaneous foods rancher for the puffers....thats a whole different side of the hobby. I havent kept pea puffers in a while and would defer to the forum experts on them ....but i really liked my group of them they mostly ate bloodworms, some occasional pond snails they found in plants, frozen mysis shrimp, krill both freeze dried and frozen, maybe repashy (im not positive), vibra bites, and also never notices a scud in their tank back then so im sure those were a pea pleaser as well
  24. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    I basically have 5 top choices probably a few more but 1. Hairy Puffer Pao baileyi In a colony they are fairly active for me. All have a different personality and food preferences. This was the first puffer species I decided to try as a colony... and ignore the internet rules against doing it. Since 2018 they have been fairly interactive with eachother and with me. When i move the third that one will become "a bump on a log" 2. Mekong River Puffer Pao cf palustris My first puffer spawned and raised. They hold a special place in the list these two were in the amazonas article. Adult wc Male behind adlut female in front . One of the great things about this species is their spawning coloration. Male left female right. These are the same species as the parents above. Fry hatching Baby palustris moving to a growout 3. Spotted Congo Puffer Tetraodon schoutedeni this group is from two sources and is my first partial success with egg scattering puffers. Small and relatively peaceful are tough to beat Still working on the process for raising them to the size for live baby brine . This is a fry from the above group which is currently growing with 5 siblings in a german breeding ring. 4. Regani Dwarf Pike Crenicichla regani "Rio tapajos" Before puffers there were pike. My dad and I had, among other cool stuff, a belly crawler pike growing up. The regani make my list because they were the first challenging species to be bred up here in my fishroom. 5.5 " male behind and 4.5" female displaying the striped patterning. The male has excellent coloration when breeding. The parents would adjust patterns to comminucate to eachother and the fry in this photo using that color change. Each would rotate perimeter guard and fry overwatch ...im assuming to stay alert. They would pop their jaws and head shake at me if i was too close to the fry.. 70 ish days later 5. Sterbai Corydoras Because they look nice and are so tough up here im not even convinced they need water :). They breed for me regularly. I am running 20 sterbai fry in the bottom 40 gallon breeder of the floating fry ring system.
  25. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    That pond snail really puts them into perspective size wise
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