MissMTS

This week I sent up an 18 gallon puffer tank for my office at work. It is an 18gallon tall aquarium with an eclipse hood and 1 WPG lighting. The substrate is white sand. I have two tall root stump decorations in the tank and lots of plants: java fern, anubias, and vals. I have 5 dwarf puffers in the tank and 1 BN Pleco. The puffs are too young to sex right now, but I have unisex names picked out that will work no matter what gender they end up being. So, meet Scout, Joey, Dakota, Chandler, and Dylan my Dwarf Puffers!!! I have added some pics of them below. Sorry the quality is so bad These little buggers are so dang hard to photograph!

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MissMTS

Here is a pic of the whole tank and a pic of the BN Pleco named Parker

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Lucy

Really cute and the tank looks great!
Good thing I have a laptop, it's easy to turn. lol

MissMTS

Thanks Lucy

Ha ha, I didn't realize that I forgot to rotate the pictures. Woops!

Lucy

Did you order the dwarfs or do they carry them near you?

MissMTS

My LFS always has a tank full of them luckily. The guy who was working when I went to get them knows me really well and sold them to me for $2.99 each which was a great deal

CHoffman

Tank looks Great Kate!!..All those plants will be ok with 1 WPG??

pinkfloydpuffer

Yay! I finally get to see them
They're cuties! Tell Dylan that I like his/her name the best!
The tank looks great, and I love the pleco too

MissMTS

Thanks Cesch! Yup all of the plants are low light plants that I have kept in my other tanks for a long time. I just switched them over to this one. The vals are new, but the plant guy at my LFS said that they would work fine (I trust his judgement), and I got the whole bag for $6.99 so can't complain

MissMTS

TY Pink! hee hee....I was wondering how long it would take you to see this. I like Dylan's name the best too. My husband thought is was stupid, but I kept it anyways

CHoffman

WOW..Pretty good deal..I guess I'm going to have to try some plants..lol..

pinkfloydpuffer

Hey, I've been offline and studying

I've considered naming fish Dylan in the past too, cause I love love love Bob Dylan

MissMTS

You really should! I like my plants almost as much as my fish now (Don't worry I said almost, lol). There are plants that will grow in almost no light at all that are super easy to take care of. If you want help planting a tank, let me know

Wow, sounds fun

I thought of the name Dylan because I had a friend named Dylan growing up.

agabr123

aw yay puffers!!! great pics!

MissMTS

Thanks Alex

agabr123

you're welcome i'm jealous! i have NO room for my 10 gallon to be set up yet for the DPs i want

MissMTS

You could always set it up on the floor temporarily. I did that one time. It looked kinda silly but I eventually moved it. The puffs are so cute, you have to get some!

agabr123

lol, yeah that's true....hmmm....you really shouldn't go putting ideas like that into my head! all i really need for the tank is a new heater, but i do need to check out the hood some more. the lights aren't actually covered by anything but it's supposedly aquarium safe...

MissMTS

Hee hee hee, we are all such great influences on eachother

agabr123

oh i know! DPs are like the bettas family now, you can never have too many of either!

pinkfloydpuffer

Hehe, I have a tank set up on the floor.... I wrapped old textbooks in plastic to make a small 'stand' for it so that I can use the syphon.... LOL it looks so redneck...........

Evan McKay

a wise man once said "you can always hang it from the roof"

MissMTS

agabr123

now THAT is a great idea!

MissMTS

Could you imagine the water changes?

agabr123

that's just one of those things that you decide...you know i'll just worry about it later

MissMTS

Ugh! Today I came into work to check on the tank (we are closed on Sundays) and my BN pleco was dead at the bottom of the tank. He was partially decomposed already which was pretty gross. I was just worried about the ammonia spike that his sitting in there dead might have caused. I don't have a test kit at work, but the puffs seemed fine and eager for their bloodworms, thank goodness! One was curled up on the sand and his coloring was pretty dark, but as soon as I put the food in he perked right up which was good. I am going to keep an eye on things over the next few days though.

pinkfloydpuffer

Ewwwwww, poor guy. I'd do a waterchange if possible just to be safe. And of course keep an eye out for any nasties spread from the pleco. I hope the puffs didn't nibble on him....

MissMTS

It was so gross! I hope they didn't nibble on him :~ I am doing a WC tomorrow. Its too cold right now and our faucet at work doesn't adjust temp very well.