Torn...Opinions please

[bt300z32]

I just wanted some other people's opinions about what to do with my 55g tank. Right now it is FW. I originally started doing African Peacocks and had it nicely stocked with about 15 juvy peacocks until some recent water changing disasters due to high chlorine/chloramine. After trying to restock and having the same problem, I am down to one lonely Peacock along with a Sth. Amer. Bumblee Cat, Black Shark, Synodontis, and one of those generic Plecos. I am having a REALLY hard time finding peacocks I originally had. Now all I am finding are these generic ones that are listed as "Asst. Africans", which I'm not going to waste my money one. Anyway, I also have a 10g tank below my 55 w/ 2 small puffers. One is a GSP and the other I assumed is called a leopard puffer. They are housed in FW, and I have recently found out the "Aquarium Salt" doesn't cut it for BW, so I want to get them in to BW. So here's the thing I'm tossing up:

Should I convert the 55 into BW and move the Puffers? And then if I do that I want to eventually adapt them to full SW. I will then use the 10g the Puffers were in as my mixing tank and should therefore get rid of my chlorine/chloramine problems, right? Or should I give the Puffers to a LFS whom I know pretty well and keep the 55 FW?

So let's say I do convert to BW - Can I keep using my Hang Over Back power filters until I go to full SW in which I want to use a Wet/Dry? Is the best way to adopt the Puff's to other "waters" by adding it slowly? Is there a written method to this?

And lastly, if I go to full on SW, these Puff's I read will adapt, so what else could I put in that tank?

Thanks in advance...and I might be forgetting some important questions. I'm just merely looking for some opinions of people who may have done this same thing before. Thanks! - Brandon

[Oddball~]

It's all your opinion what to do with your tanks, but I'd give away the peacock and put the GSP and the "leopard puffer" (which is also a GSP), in the 55.

OR you can give away the puffers and keep te peacock

[RTR]

All you need to know:

http://puffer.proboards2.com/index.cgi?board=faq&action=display&num=1085932912

[ergo sum]

RTR. You are the same RTR over there? I have 4 dwarf puffers because one night I was reading that site. They are in a 10g with a few plants. (Some Crypt. Ciliata that I am trying to grow out in that tanks, a few other crypts and the usual java moss and fern.)

Everyday those little devils try and convince me that are starving to death. I originally put them in there to deal with a snail infestation. I can't even find a snail in that tank now.

[bt300z32]

All you need to know:

http://puffer.proboards2.com/index.cgi?board=faq&action=display&num=1085932912
It won't let me access that forum. What is it about?

[Oddball~]

You have to register into the puffer forum, bt300z32.

And yes, it is the same RTR.

[RTR]

Yup, that is me.

Also yup, you have to be registered to read the FAQs, sorry, I forgot that. If you prefer, the same reprint is available on Wet Web Media, but I do not have the URL handy.

ALL the hunter-predator puffers try very hard to convice you that they are near terminal starvation. They do try very hard to train us. Sometimes they do train us.