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  1. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Much thanks everyone for the responses. The outage was a one off of arguably epic proportions lasting from 909am on the 11th to 1243pm today the 13th of may. Not the most fun for humans or fish. I plan to gather the lessons learned and post any update next Sunday once i figure out how everyone made it through and what lessons learned I will improve on moving forward.
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    Yeah its a first for us and we have been here for 11 years and this is the first outage that has gone 28 hours and counting. Just watched powerline contractor trucks prepping "in town" at the divide grocery store though and a helicopter inspecting lines at basicslly tree top levels. Hopefully pretty close to restoration. Tanks are 65⁰ currently which seems fine for all but the L169 pleco project so far
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    I am learning some new lessons up here courtesy of a significant spring snow yesterday May 11th. Spring snow being wet and heavy has resulted in tons in the region remaining out of power now 25 hours on. I have exhausted battery airpumps, uninterupted power supplies, and battery backups. No isses so far with fish. The main issue I expect is the bacteria die off. I dont use canister or hang on back filters currently so that should be limited with all bacteria having the access to the volume of water in the tanks. My plan is: Fritz ACCR to limit ammonia spike Some liquid bacteria starter to offset any loss of bacteria Anyone have other suggestions ? Power is rarely out longer than the air pumps and uninturrupted power supplies can cover, the power stations are normally insurance and not used, so this is really a first here. To be better repared in the futire I have added another large battery power station to the supplies for next time.... but that doesnt help me today since i cant charge it up:)
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    Yeah no worries all part of the enjoyment. The learning process makes the end reault that much more rewarding for me when i get there.
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    Late to see this one thanks @Chick-In-Of-TheSea .... @FLFishChik congrats. I generally rotate foods for my puffers : snails primarily pond and ramshorn some mystery culls and some mts. Grindal worms, whiteworms, earthworms, Frozen foods/Freeze dried foods/repashy My goal is snails every other feeding and rotating between the rest to keep variety I generally feed and if the thin remains or if i see worms visually then I will do another deworming. This puffer is the last I dewormed it is a wild caught spotted congo puffer. I this was day 1 of arrival I dewormed following the directions and dosing of paracleanse https://www.aquariumcoop.com/collections/fish-medicine/products/fritz-paracleanse Then after a break expel-p following those directions. https://www.aquariumcoop.com/collections/fish-medicine/products/fritz-expel-p The result. This is the same puffer based of pattern of the spots :
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    Absolutely...BLUF is they didnt make it past day 20. But they are why the next group will be more successful so a good learning experience. I believe the combo of loosing power for 10 hours in that first week and the lack of enough paramecium probably turned batch one to an excelleng learning experience same as the first few palustris fry batches were in getting my process for my conditions and group down. Right around day 18 the puffer fry started to be harder to see seemed to go off food and vanished shortly after. I do have plenty of paramecium going now along with some infusoria in a 5 gallon bucket using java moss and the standard cultures for other fry : baby brine, grindal worms, and whiteworms. Here is the adult group this morning. Eggs should be next harvestable tomorrow. To one end opposite the filter is a "spawning container" of subwassertang so the male can dive in there and i can just pull container out to collect most eggs The F1 palustris are pretty regularly spawning but on top of a clay pot cave seems like poor planning. i am about to pull that one and leave them with one cave to use. Male left female right both in spawning coloration
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    The Betta antuta did not quite make the fishroom 3.0 up here. Once the puffer projects started producing pufferfish fry there was a reallocation of tank space and they were traded out as F1 adults. Before being traded I did not notice anything too crazy. If it fit in their mouth it was food. I did not have to break up the the group of 6 - F1 growing prior to moving them on. There were mulltiple males in their growout colony. There were never any split fins fighting or other damage in my group of F1 Betta antuta. The 6 on arrival eating repashy Fast forward to grown out. The antuta were the second species in the complex ive kept the first being Betta macrostoma. I had two pair of macrostoma in 2018 also of the unimaculata complex like antuta. The macrostoma needed the pair similar to avoid one going in the throat of the other when doing the test of strength display with the mouth gape. I saved this male seperated the pair and the female jumped the diffuser divider to breed within 2 weeks. I kept them in a medium flow species tank. The macrostoma were run as one pair per 40 breeder for me. The post rescue from throat photos ...none the worse for wear Courtship Display
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    Day 15 April 8 2023 Either I missed one spawning or this colony is on a 15 day schedule Male looking for female who is behind subwassertang forest and bottom left a few of the eggs
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    I recorded my F1 pair of Pao cf palustris deciding the top of the clay pot was a great location for spawning. Added a floor to the 2nd cave in that tank in hopes they change their location. I do love that color change everytime
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    I figured it might work so it was worth a shot. So far working well 18 hours in
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    I have no idea how or if really but my general theory is that some fish are triggered to spawn based of barometric pressure drops related to storms, temperature, etc. I have 33% lower barometric pressure vs sea level, on average. At this altitude the percentage of oxygen vs air volume is 14.8% vs 20.9% at sealevel. Those parameters might be something that keeps the barometric trigger for spawning "on" all the time and help my efforts by already having that trigger checked off. I do run liveplants and air driven filters to maximize the dissolved oxygen day and night
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    Necessity being the mother of invention..... My spotted congo fry came just before when the family vacation in a few weeks. A vacation right in the middle of puffer growing season does not end with puffers for me. I decided to attempt to automate the feedings using a bigger paramecium culture a wifi timer and a topoff doser. This is version 3 of the automated paramecium feeder (and possibly a moina feeder). The cloudy 20 high to the right of the 60 breeder fry tank is a paramecium culture using wheat berries and yeast filled half way should be ready by then but for now the half gallon mason jar is good for approximately 30 one minute 50ml feedings. The polyfilter cube seen in the german breeding ring is a visual indicator of water quality for me. Its just a little insurance against any organic buildup. The ring is floating in a 60 breeder with a sicce pro 900 for filtration and the sponge filter on the ring. You can see a puffer fry eating a paramecium at the end day 14 7 april 2023....this is the still figuring out the process. Im not finalized on the layout yet so the coop tubing is long enough to adjust and not fully set in place. The concept seems to work so far
  13. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Sure 77-79⁰ temp range, 300 kh, 40 gh, 6.8ph, 9,100' altitude, and tons of snails and earthworms
  14. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Necessity being the mother of invention..... My spotted congo fry came just before when the family vacation in a few weeks. A vacation right in the middle of puffer growing season does not end with puffers for me. I decided to attempt to automate the feedings using a bigger paramecium culture a wifi timer and a topoff doser. This is version 3 of the automated paramecium feeder (and possibly a moina feeder). The cloudy 20 high to the right of the 60 breeder fry tank is a paramecium culture using wheat berries and yeast filled half way should be ready by then but for now the half gallon mason jar is good for approximately 30 one minute 50ml feedings. The polyfilter cube seen in the german breeding ring is a visual indicator of water quality for me. Its just a little insurance against any organic buildup. The ring is floating in a 60 breeder with a sicce pro 900 for filtration and the sponge filter on the ring. You can see a puffer fry eating a paramecium at the end
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    @Preston John Will do. They are a whole different and rewarding kind of puffer challenge. This batch has been really enjoyable to learn from. Day 14 7 April 2023
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    I can assure you I am not that talented of a fabricator :). I believe they are relatively easy to find in a few spots. I like the idea of the floating ring for my projects and setups
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    @TheSwissAquarist they are sort of. Its a german breeding ring floating in an unstocked 60 breeder. Essentially the flow of the hang on tank box, with an intakr a sponge filter, a clear acrylic ring, a sieve mesh base, and a foam top so it floats in tank. The white tube has an airline just above the bottom elbow that pulls water through the sponge and up into the ring. There is an overflow with a coarse sponge plug just in case it ever gets too full The idea was to raise puffer fry and other smaller fry in different sized tanks where the water level wouldnt need to be full and it would just float in tank. Still learning them but so far its pretty nice
  18. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    I spent closer to 2 hours: feeding the congo fry every few hours which would up being 8 x10 minute sessions (Im a sucker for a cloud of puffer fry ). 40 additional minutes to feed and watch the rest of the room and work through a hardware issue in one tank that ended in a heater and controller swap.
  19. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Day 9 2 April 23 evening Day 10 3 April 23 Going strong so far. My camera doesnt quite catch the food but does catch the feeding. The fry coming right to left snags some sort of something in the water either paramecium or some other infusoria type creature. The fry facing down in the center feeds upwards Baby brine is still too big for them it seems but a good size comparison.
  20. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Thanks kindly @TheSwissAquarist. Ill give the winner a run for their money at a minimum 🙂
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    Day 8 1 April 23 mid day Im not sure if they are eating the vinegar eels yet but still adding them in just in case they are. This is one eating paramecium Two hunting
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    Day 7 31 March 23 mid day A little over 30 today
  23. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    nice set up. great to meet you electronically
  24. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Put in some vinegar eels in addition to the paramecium on the 430pm feeding. About 16 fry visible currently
  25. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    I havent kept them but full fresh as far as I am aware. Seems like the related and larger Colomesus psittacus is brackish /salt though
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