Archivarium 2004

[Mogwai]

Nothing like a mussel picnic under the filter on a Bank Holiday Weekend...hope you like them!



Smile for the camera!







This bit's all mine!



We'll share.

[w5yw5y]

real cute. is that okay that their bellies are so bloated like that? hope they're not overeating lol.... getting a little greedy hehe. nice pictures again. not to mention story too

[farr_jess_123]

they are really cute. I wish I had puffers. how many are in there???

[Tim McDonnell]

I saw some puffers at my lfs the other day. sort of wish I got them. lol.
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[Destany]

We've been back and forth thinking of converting one of our misc tanks to a puffer tank... Leaning towards the puffers! Great pics! How old are those btw?

[SLACkra]

WHAAA I want to get anouther amazon puffer. though mine prefered live bloodworms, I spoiled the little fatty. wonder if amazon puffers are even availiable in australia? great pics mogwai!

andrew
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32g planted community
7.5g Nano Reef
1 four legged wonder napper
2 winged demons

[qwerty123]

Yeh, I don't think we have a big of a selection as other countries, I aint never seen puffers or frogs for sale also moonlight gourami's, I wanted one soon as I saw the pic in the gallery tab.

[duzzie]

Great Pics, I wish I could get some of my 2 Fig8s. They are so cute, coming up to the glass looking for food everytime I pass the tank, even if their bellies are stuffed with food. Puffers are great fish to keep, but can be harder to look after than your standard tropicals
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Some day soon, we are all gonna swim. Seven tenths and rising.

[Mogwai]

w5yw5y - their bellies flatten back out again within a couple of hours and they are HUNGRY ONCE MORE - they eat and eat!

There are 6 total in the 120L tank - they do shoal and don't seem to have territory issues (except at feeding time...it's MINE, NO it's MINE - they try and snatch the food from each other)

We have had these puffs for just over 6 months now - I don't know how old they were when we got them, but they have doubled in size since so I would assume they were juvies - they apparantly reach 10-15cm when adult! The tank looks v empty at the moment - they are about 6cm long.

Andrew - ours love bloodworms too but I'm worried about their beaks - no problems so far but Colomesus asellus are meant to have more teeth problems than any other puff, so they get cockles/mussels and snails to trim their beaks, and bloodworms as a treat. They totally ignore pelleted food or flakes!

Glad you enjoy. They remind me of little bees the way they 'buzz' around the tank!