My Brackish 46 Bowfront
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Thanks! 
Yes Kelly that IS a puffer in the bubble stream. They like swimming through and riding the bubbles.
When I got rid of my Mono and Scat I was going to get rid of the chromide too because I was afraid of what might happen putting them together, but at the last minute I decided to keep him and I'm glad I did! There have been no aggression issues at all. In fact Mr. Big Bad Cichlid seems a little afraid of the puffers, but they leave him alone. If I ever find the right size healthy F8's around here I'd like to add at least one more, maybe 2. The only ones I have seen have been adults.
Those are 2 Whisper 60 filters.
I've read that the nerites are pretty difficult to raise in home aquariums. Once they hatch they go through a free swimming stage and it's hard to get them enough nutrients in a typical 'clean' aquarium so they rarely make it past that stage. Feeding insuforia helps, I guess. Also, unlike most snails they have a defined sex....so I might not have a male and female, I might just have 2 females. The eggs are hard and crusty on the glass and I agree they are hard to get off. I scraped a couple by accident and they kind of 'pop'
Maybe one of these days I'll set them up in my 2.5gal and see if I can make babies - that would be a fun project.
Yes Kelly that IS a puffer in the bubble stream. They like swimming through and riding the bubbles.
When I got rid of my Mono and Scat I was going to get rid of the chromide too because I was afraid of what might happen putting them together, but at the last minute I decided to keep him and I'm glad I did! There have been no aggression issues at all. In fact Mr. Big Bad Cichlid seems a little afraid of the puffers, but they leave him alone. If I ever find the right size healthy F8's around here I'd like to add at least one more, maybe 2. The only ones I have seen have been adults.
Those are 2 Whisper 60 filters.
I've read that the nerites are pretty difficult to raise in home aquariums. Once they hatch they go through a free swimming stage and it's hard to get them enough nutrients in a typical 'clean' aquarium so they rarely make it past that stage. Feeding insuforia helps, I guess. Also, unlike most snails they have a defined sex....so I might not have a male and female, I might just have 2 females. The eggs are hard and crusty on the glass and I agree they are hard to get off. I scraped a couple by accident and they kind of 'pop'
Maybe one of these days I'll set them up in my 2.5gal and see if I can make babies - that would be a fun project.
Well Virgo....only took me 6 months but here ya go...lol.
Actually I put my new much brighter light on and suddenly it's much easier to snap a few pics STILL haven't found any Chromides for sale though...so mine is still a loner.
I've moved a few rocks around but my tank basically looks the same. Unfortuantly for these guys I am soon moving them temporarily into a 29gal because this 46 is going reef
Actually I put my new much brighter light on and suddenly it's much easier to snap a few pics
STILL haven't found any Chromides for sale though...so mine is still a loner.
I've moved a few rocks around but my tank basically looks the same. Unfortuantly for these guys I am soon moving them temporarily into a 29gal because this 46 is going reef
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Don't know how I missed this! LOL Nice pics! I think it'll be a while before we go Brackish again though, hubby has decided while he loves gobies, he would rather have Discus, LOL. I think I liked it better when he wanted a 20gal with $2 fish rather than a 120gal with $50 fish LOL, but then again, his Dicus,... my rams... it all works out in the end LOL.
I think it'll be a while before we go Brackish again though, hubby has decided while he loves gobies, he would rather have Discus, LOL. I think I liked it better when he wanted a 20gal with $2 fish rather than a 120gal with $50 fish LOL, but then again, his Dicus,... my rams... it all works out in the end LOL.
Generally F8's can be kept with their own kind....provided the tank is large enough to accomodate each puffer and there are sufficient decorations to break up lines of sight. F8's seem to be one of the lesser aggressive puffers....even more so then the DP's. Green Spotted Puffers are usually recommended as species only as they can be mean little buggers. My GSP and F8 get along fine for now, but my gsp is little more then a baby. I'll have to separate them soon. That and my GSP had an injury when I first got him that he recovered from and ever since then he's seemed a little "Der der der" if you know what I mean.