I got puffers!!!

[gaya]

I've been looking for dwarf puffers for some time and nobody ever seemed to carry them. Today I went to a small local fish store and they had six. I only wanted three for now because I’m still getting the second 10g ready. The guy talked me into buying all six and I couldn’t resist. They’re about ½ inch in size so I’m hoping they’ll be ok together for another day or two. The two 10g are adjacent to each other and will have 3 dp in each. These two tanks are right next to my computer.

Here is the 1st 10g

Here are some of the puffers but they are hard to see and blurry

 

[JoBodude]

very cute dwarfs!

 

[Puffer_freak]

Cute dwards, although it is recommended that you only have 1per 5 gals although as long as your filteration is good you'll be fine!

 

[KentBlokey]

The are very nice....I too soon hope to have two Dwarf puffers ( not in your current Tank I hear you scream) No! Of course not

 

[gaya]

Cute dwards, although it is recommended that you only have 1per 5 gals although as long as your filteration is good you'll be fine!

I think I’m going over board on the filtration right now. I have two filters in there and one is for a 30g and the other for a 20g and the current is too strong. I put the extra filter on because there are six of them. Sometimes they look like they are being blown around. I’m gonna remove one. I fed them today and I don’t understand the messy eater thing. I gave them live worms and they sucked them up like spaghetti. Their poo isn’t huge or anything but then again they are very small.

I was under the assumption that it was supposed to 2-3 gallons per puffer. So I though I was a little ahead of the game. Is this do to aggression maybe? I read somewhere that the way to sex them was that the males have little wrinkles around their eyes and the females have a bit fatter body. Is this correct? I’m noticing the little wrinkles on a couple of them so I thought that if it worked out I could try to have two females to one male in each tank (though things never work out that easy).

 

[a1wonder]

Acutally with the amount of plantation your have in your currently tank and fliteration you should be able to handle perhapes three in a ten gal just make sure to have suffiecent caves for them to call home. You can also tell the guy from the gals by checking to see if they have a brown line on their belly (it should be fairly light unless their in breeding season) but the guy will usually display this. As for fliteration the only waste that somtimes develop in my tank are from when the little guy rip out blood worm from my tweeser and then don't eat them all and the waste collects on the bottom. Hope to see more pictures soon

 

[mandi]

*Cuteness Overload!!*

 

[cutechic]

They're adorable. Good luck with them

 

[gaya]

Thanks guys. I just have to figure out how to take pictures. If I leave the flash on the pics come out clear but the tank looks dark. If I turn off the flash the tank looks bright but the image blurrs. hmmm.

 

[cutechic]

Are you taking pictures with the tank light on and the room lights off?

I hold the flash on my camera down a bit so it is not completely upright. This blocks the light a bit, and the pictures usually turn out how I want them. If you can't do this, you could hold something dark above the camera to block out some light.

 

[gaya]

The room lights are on and the tank lights are on. I think i've tried to take pics with the room lights off and only tanks light on and it still looked blurry. I have a fugifilm finepix digi camera. If anyone is familiar with it.

 

[Erised]

They're lovely indeed
The recommened is indeed 5G a dwarf puffer, and mostly because of their aggression. Then again, some have been lucky enough to pull off 3 in a 10G when others couldnt pull off 2 in a 15G because of aggression. I hope you'll be one of the lucky ones. If they're all the same size and will stay like that I think you'll be fine. In my experience if 1 is even slightly bigger than the other he/she will become dominant and will harrass the other, sometimes till death. Also, can I recommend getting sand in your tank? Its really a lot better for puffers than gravel, specially concidering your gravel is quite large as well.

 

[cutechic]

I've got a Nikon, so I can't help you there. It took me 2 years to figure out how to take clear pics on mine.

 

[gaya]

I would love to have sand, I really like the way it looks. I've never had it and I'm kind of worried about how to go about setting it up. 10 million questions: Why is it better for puffers? I've never looked for it at my LFS but I suppose they would have it? And what would I do with them in the mean time? How long does it take for sand to settle down?

edit: by the way it's not all gravel. underneath of have clay (ecolight?) for the plants.

 

[Erised]

Puffers like to sleep on the sand, gravel tends to have sharp edges which means they might cut themselfs (they're quite vulnerable like that). My Lfs sells it, I'm quite sure yours does too. However, it might be cheaper to get in a DIY shop. There's a pinned topic in the tropical chit chat section that should help you out (Find it here)