What is happening to my puffers?

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Ananda

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They'll work in freshwater if the water has enough gunk in it and IF you can get sufficiently small bubbles (which is difficult). Foam fractionators were initially used in sewage treatment facilities.

Protein skimmers should start working around 1.006 if you have a heavy fish load. You may get skimmate that looks more like green tea than coffee sludge, however.

I made a co-current skimmer out of soda bottles as a test-of-concept. It was pretty inefficient. In a molly growout tank with the sg at 1.008, I was getting green tea skimmate. The stuff did stink, so it was pulling something out.

(For details, go to http://wetwebfotos.com/talk and search for "soda bottle skimmer". Plans are on my user page over there.)
 

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Unfortunatly my other Puffer died yesterday :confused: All he was doing was tumbling around and not eating. I hate when I have to go away for extended periods and can't watch them day to day. I have been doing 20% a day water changes sinse adding my new additions, and everyone else seems to be doing alright.

Ananda, you say it was pretty ineffecient but it still worked? I read the threads and saw the plans, are you still using it?
 

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> are you still using it?
Nope -- tried it on the brackish tank, then moved it to the 10g nano for a while. Eventually I took it out (long story why) and never did put it back in. Still have most of it. The silicone didn't work long-term on holding the collection cup together, so I'd have to redo that.

I'm upgrading the 10g nano tank to a 29g + 10g fuge + 5g mantis tank, so I'm looking for a real skimmer....
 
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