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  1. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    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
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    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.
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    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.
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    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
  8. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    nice set up. great to meet you electronically
  9. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Put in some vinegar eels in addition to the paramecium on the 430pm feeding. About 16 fry visible currently
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    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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    Disclaimer I have never done this and am a super newbie on the larval stage. My limited understanding is that they are minimally developed "almost fry" and not quite eggs that float on or suspend in the current. Some good studies are out there on this species and topic. The gist is the Colomesus asellus, and I would assume any Colomesus puffer, has a spawning process similar to the saltwater puffers with the larval stage of development. In their case it appears they use rising water larval drift during the rainy season to disperse larvae into the flood plains and along the banks of the river. Im not well versed in what seems to be a saltwater process in freshwater. I believe : the first hurdle in the aquarium would be to collect the ichthyoplankton/larvae and not filter it out of the tank. My assumption would be to run a larvae trap from salt water and no filtration whatever night spawning would occur to make it work. the second to concentrate them to feed microscopic foods for a period while still maintaining water parameters. Once develop into fry and can start to eat more reliably raise them with the regular puffer challenges of food available vs puffers in need of that food. references: colomesus asellus breeding - Google Scholar Transport of larval fish in the Amazon - Araujo‐Lima - 1998 - Journal of Fish Biology - Wiley Online Library Natural selection in the water: freshwater invasion and adaptation by water colour in the Amazonian pufferfish - COOKE - 2012 - Journal of Evolutionary Biology - Wiley Online Library Drift of Colomesus asellus (Teleostei : Tetraodontidae) larvae in the Amazon river- fdi:43866- Horizon (ird.fr)
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    I would expect that as well. It would be a cool project with the larval stage challenges involved.
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    I have not tried the amazon puffers the faster growth of the teeth and the planktonic larval stage is not something I have set up for yet but never say never on that one. Yes, the hairy puffer colony they do well with plants but the subwassertang takes off in that tank to the point that I have generally pulled a gallon ziplock bag worth out of that 75 every two weeks. the benefit for me is they can bite it and it just makes more with no visible damage vs most plants where you can see the bite and damage. The hairys are with anubias, Brazilian pennywort (that I run as a floater), and subwassertang. Those seem to be the best options up here on the mountain
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    The hairy puffers are probably better at growing it than anyone
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    Puffer proof in all the tanks so far 🙂 my favorite for most situations
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    Lol the puffers farm it up here ... so much of it in a few tanks it carpets for me
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    The project has officially begun now. Egg collection was nearly impossible I was not really ready for it first round so grabbed the subwassertang and put it i to a german breeding ring floating in an empty 60 breeder. Still learning and the initial 6 or more will be invaluable to me to get better for the next group. Adjustments to wild group tank to follow for the next try and hopefully get more eggs to start. Day 0 March 24 2023 at 134 pm up here Today day 5 March 29th 2023 at 530pm to 615 pm @Preston John they are amazingly small in person. Way smaller than the palustris fry were. 5 days to free swimming at 9,100 feet seems like the altitude doesnt change the development so far. Day 6 30MAR23 0432/432am Thats a normal sized subwassertang leaf for scale. That leaf above is a brazilian pennywort leaf. Some portion of the now 7 counted fry are eating based off the belly. Day 6 30MAR23 430pm 16 or so visible now. Seem to have paramecium bellys and possibly infusoria off the subwassertang Day 7 31 Mar 23 11am ish. Treating for hydra since one grabed a fry before it swam free. That has caused the slight haze. Approximately 30 fry visible in the ring today
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    I have not tried it myself. That does seem a little cool long term to me. I would imagine they are tougher than given credit for since that river is shallow and slow moving the temperature fluctuation is probably pretty drastic in certain seasons for extended periods of time. There have been a few studies of the river they originate from, and that range was more 75-82. one was the International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, Print Version, Volume 2, Issue 11, November 2012 Edition, ISSN 2250-3153) I have unintentionally run 3 adult hairy puffers at 70-72 for a few weeks before when the heater got unplugged and wasn't noticed. They were ok but they were also full-grown puffers at that point which may have helped.
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    That whole process was pretty cool to see. I took a bit of video that round and got a much better understanding of how they work in my setups and how to adjust my tanks for them moving forward: plants more localized, sponges on the one side of the tank to grab some eggs for a tumbler, and probably will move the sand to one side or remove it completely to better spot and collect the eggs.
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    @nabokovfan87 This is the mark after. heals pretty quick. seems superficial and they go right back to standard puffering up here eating food and interacting.
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    More of a firm hold only option they have without hands I suppose
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    @Cory thanks kindly. That whole process is quite intense. They went back to normal coloration and feeding earlier tonight. Its intesting how much of a dance it is with them. Looking forward to working on raising fry at some point in the coming months. I also did not realize males changed pattern similar to, but not quite as drastic as, the mekong puffers with lighter spots and a darker body.
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    So deworming worked i dont have egg collection down just yet but a cool update anyway ....
  24. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Yeah i like options
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    I havent done canisters in a while. They seem good with plants and 4 foam cube filters for me. I'd guess its mid flow even with the directional output. I have also run 2 of the sicce pro 500 with the spray bar popped up and the flow turned to middle of the range. 2 large box +/- 5" round box filters with floss and some bio rings My guess would be either canister would be capable of the job
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