snakestorm526

Because of availability of the fish, it looks like my 100 gallon community tank is gonna be converted to a dwarf puffer species tank... I am halfway through the conversion... For those of you who have puffer tanks, can you post pics of your tanks? Not just pics of the puffers, but the whole tank... I need some ideas of how I'm gonna aquascape the tank... Hopefully it will be up and running in the next two weeks

midnightwolf

i dont and never have owned puffers but lots of people such as pink have and i have heard great things about the little guys. wishing u luck,
mackenzie

pinkfloydpuffer

A 100g DP tank?? Oh my gosh that will be amazing! How many puffs are you getting in there? How are you gonna make sure they all get fed? Good luck with your tank! It'll be soooo awesome!

Here's pics of my past DP tanks...

snakestorm526

hahaha... those were questions I was hoping you would be able to answer for me, considering you being the puffer expert =)... your tanks look great... are those all real plants in your tanks? I was thinking of putting in a mix of both real and fake

pinkfloydpuffer

I'd say up to about 20 puffs... and you'd definitely want a few plecos (Thomasi or ancistrus) or otos in there too to help keep it clean for you. Feeding could be difficult, and honestly you will probably lose several puffers and never know about it... What you need to do is get them used to hand feeding and so they learn to come up to the top to eat. It took mine months to figure that out, so just keep at it.

I have all real plants in the first one, and all fake except for the real moss in the second.

snakestorm526

I was thinking of getting all silk plants and adding a ton of java moss... will having one of those feeding basket things that suction to the side of the tank help?

pinkfloydpuffer

Um... I'm not sure what a feeding basket thing is... lol

snakestorm526

the upside down cone with little holes in it, that can be suctioned to the side of the tank... used to feed live bloodworms, i think.

pinkfloydpuffer

Ohhh... that might help. You'd still have to make sure that all the puffs notice it though

snakestorm526

i see... thanks for the advice... I'm sure I will have plenty of more questions for you as its closer and closer until the tank is up

pinkfloydpuffer

No prob. Good luck