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Octavarium

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Mar 2, 2005
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I just wanted to let everyone know my puffer is alive and doing very well now. Purchased him 4 months ago and had him in 5 1/2 gallon tank with aquarium salt(If any of you puffer fanatics remember the troubles I had). With some time I slowy acclimated him to the proper level of instant ocean and moved him into a 10 gallon tank for now. He is in great shape (about inch and half long) and has an excellent personality, and loves eating frozen shrimp. I just wanted to let everyone know, since many people told me he would die...hes been a strong little guy. I have plans of moving him into bigger tank come christmas, what size do you puffer experts reccomend?
 
As long as your gonna buy a tank, why not go up to the size he'll be needing for life?
 
hey Pufferpunk .. is that your puffer in your gallery with the over grown teeth ???.. is so .. oh man you gotta do something about that or he wont be abe to eat .. do you feed it snails ??.. i also heard they eat that african Tufo rock .. and that helps to keep down the teeth .. if it is yours plese do something about it .. not comeing down on ya ok... :)

Marn
 
LOL.. omg .. poor lil things .. i couldnt imagine doin that to my lil dwarf puffer...lol.. seeing them float around like that ... poor thing ..
she gets her snails and oh man she loves them.. cant get one in the tank without her noticeing them ...and strikes like a lil pitbull ..lol.. but she is a lil sweetie .. cool lil fish to have ...

Marn
 
Dwarf puffers don't have as big a problem with teeth overgrowing, IME. Still need the crunchies, but it's not as critical as with the larger puffs. I can't imagine trimming their teeth, so that's a good thing.
 
LOL the bucktooth puffers are hilarious. My guy (Chisels is his name) has 2 snails in the tank he chews every now and then. I don't even know what kind they are, they were called pond snails and the guy at the store said they could last in brackish(although it was freshwater tank I got them out of!), I thought they wouldnt last long so for 2 bucks I bought two...but I was wrong. They've been living for 4 months, and they do a hell fo a job cleaning the brown alage on the glass. They are pretty small snails, with brown and black wavy stripped shells...any clue what kind?
 
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