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Indian dwarf puffer help!?

Posted on November 22, 2010 by admin| 4 Comments

I have posted about this before. I went to the pet store today and they told me they fed my indian dwarf puffers frozen brine shrimp. Ive been trying to feed them that for several days. They will not eat it. I got one to try it and it spit it out so im not sure if it ate any of it or just spit it all out, but one still has not eaten and its been 5 days. Ive tried frozen brine shrimp, shrimp pellets, flake food, I also put a snail in there about 2 days ago and they have had no interest in it and the snail is still alive and moving. I went today and bought frozen bloodworms to try that and they have been very lathargic and didnt want anything to do with the bloodworms either. I tested the water and the ammonia levels are perfect. So dont know what to do now. Please anyone with some good information help me.

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cycling question….or-uncycling….?

Posted on November 11, 2010 by admin| 6 Comments

alo everyone. yesterday i went to petsmart to get an aquaclear filter and i also bought bloodworms (frozen) since the dwarf puffers werent eating their brine shrimp. now i got home and they LOVED the worms. but the problem is, today, the power went out. so the filter didnt work, obviously, and the fish were swimming near the top of the sides. now, i hear that means they are bored, but they never did that until today; it think they were looking for oxygen. so i bouught a battery opperated air pump: good. so i went to feed them their worms, and i dropped like a hundred in there! =/ i got as most as i could out, but an hour later, they were still munching on them. ughh, so yeah, i’m figuring theyll die. but my question is, the guy at the fish store said to do a water change. if i do this, will that uncycle the tank? because onnce im done doing that, and the water is good again (not dirty with shrimp and worm remains) i want to get more dwarfs, but will i have to recycle it again or not???

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How many dwarf puffers will fit in a 10 gallon tank?

Posted on March 4, 2010 by admin| 6 Comments

I just transplanted my two dwarf puffers from my 28 gallon full of community fish (zebra danios, catfish and mickey platies) to their own tank — a ten gallon tank. I syphoned 6 gallons from the 28 gallon tank, added 3 gallons of spring water, 1 hornwort plant, 2 frill plants, 2 cups of gravel substrate from the 28 gallon with new gravel that I pre-rinsed and soaked.

So far they seem to be faring well. But are two enough for the 10 gallon? I’d like to get 2 more but worry that won’t be enough “territory” for them.

Are 4 dwarf puffers going to be overcrowed in a 10 gallon tank that’s somewhat planted?

Oh. And I feed them bloodworms and give them treats of brine shrimp and tubifex worms as treats. The black ramshorn snails I get from Petsmart and bloodworms have been their staple diet in the previous 28 gallon community tank, that I plan to continue in the 10 gallon tank.

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dwarf puffers wont eat!?

Posted on February 11, 2010 by admin| 6 Comments

i give them the same stuff as the store they came from did, flakes in the morning,frozen brine shrimp at night. they still wont eat! are they still nervous from the move? they arent being as amazing as everyone has said. im getting worried, i dangled it right infront of their noses please help!

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