15 gallon column pea puffer journal

vwill279

vwill279

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Just bought the tank today and am in the process of setting it up! It is a very nice woodgrain 15 gallon column tank with a stand. I bought white silica sand for the substrate and will have a tall driftwood and lots of live plants. I am fast cyclying it with filter media from my other tanks and hope to have it ready by the end of the week if the tests go well! I will update this with pictures of the process!

My LFS has had 20 pea puffers in the same 15 gallon tank for 2 weeks for their quarantine with no signs of aggression. I plan on putting 6 or 7 in the 15 gallon. There will be tons of plants and hiding places. I will remove any that are being picked on and take them back to the store (he already consented to this). He thought I would be good with 10-12, and if the 6 original ones go well together I MIGHT consider adding more, but I'd rather have fewer and have them get along than worry about fights. Plus, they might be fine now, but they are juveniles and as they get older, they might get more aggressive.

I am also thinking of putting 4-5 otos in there as well for algae patrol since the puffers will probably kill any snail cleaners I try for and most people I've talked to said that otos are really good tankmates.

Names for the puffers will be:
Mr. Peabody
Penelopea
Peater
Peanut
Peawee
Peach

any other ideas? :D
 
Got the tank up and running with filter media and a prefilter sponge from one of my other tanks! Going to add some plants tonight and try to trap some pest snails to move over tonight. Hopefully I can get a really large outbreak of pest snails in that tank to keep the puffers busy so I dont have to replenish too often.
Before fill-up!
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Up and running!
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Moved some plants and snails over! Didnt aquascape, just plopped them in for now. Waiting till I get the driftwood before I do anything artistic. Hoping the snails get settled in and start laying eggs. Would love a stable population in that tank for puffer chow, but I dont know if that would be possible with so many puffers. Have both ramshorns and pond snails in there now. Hoping to find some MTS soon.
 
my puffers are puffdaddy, jigglypuff and puffy the vampire slayer...:D Tank is lookin' good-the otos are a hit or miss
 
Ordered my driftwood! It is a piece of manzanita from Manzman; VERY excited! Now I am trying to decide if I want to hang it to look like roots, or the other way around to look like a tree... what do you guys think?

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Nice lookin piece! I would do it hanging to look like roots. Unless you wanted to put something like christmas moss on the ends or anubius on them so that it's like leaves and make it into a tree, I think that always looks really nice... sorry that wasn't helpful :o
 
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