Keeping and Breeding Dwarf Puffers????? Help please

[dixienut]

before my male died he was spawning with my female all the time, she likes a depression in the gravel down to the bottom and would lay there to copulate then run in to the moss to lay eggs,.. but unfortunately the eggs were probably eaten by the snails.. as i have tons of them even in the puffer tanks..

 

[Pufferpunk]

I didnt read the links

Why not? I thought you were looking for info.

 

[SchizotypalVamp]

Kaluden said that, not sweetheart, lol

 

[Pufferpunk]

Oh sorry, duh...

 

[Sweetheart]

Lol it is okay. Okay tell me if I am right. I have to have alot of java moss in the tank and the temperature set to 80 for them to breed. 2 females for every male, and 2 or 3 gallons per dwarf. Clean the tank 25 percent once every week. Feed them flake or bloodworms once a day. Am I right???

 

[dixienut]

50% each week is basic, they need clean water, but will doo if nitrates are low, they are messy not like you can see but the kinda squish the juicy stuff out of live things and it turns water kinda nasty.. i would only have 1 male if more than all you will have is fighting each other, my male had 4 females and he picked his queen and chased out the others, after he chooses one its best to remove the others cause he will only want that one, at least mine did and he hated the other females so did the female they don't want others around when they have eggs.. so it stresses them out..

 

[Pufferpunk]

3-5g/DP. As far as I know, they do not eat flakes. Try worms, FD plankton & mysis shrimp.

 

[Sweetheart]

Okay thanks

 

[SchizotypalVamp]

Btw, may I ask why you are trying to breed fish?

 

[Sweetheart]

Because it's something new and because I can take care of them and watch the babies grow to adults.