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One is 2 months out of water and the other is 3 months. So we have a while to go yet, especially as we don't know what sex they are. My daughter isn't fussed if they breed, but I have to admit I secretly would love to try and bring up some tadpoles.

Clearly, I like to punish myself, because I already have 3 tanks to tend to, and now there is a bioactive vivarium to add to the fun. I finally caved after about 12 months of persuasion from my daughter We set it up last summer and stocked it a couple of weeks ago. 2 small but very cute...

An earthy wet kind of smell, except for 1 tank that has blue-green algae, that one doesn't smell too nice tbh.

I'm not a huge plastic plant fan, but that decoration is really cool. Also, is the Anubias on the left in the substrate? If so, it would be best to move them so the rhizome doesn't rot. They're better off attached to a rock or some wood.

I've yet to be bitten by my dwarf puffers, but I've had platy's and my GBR check out my hands to see if they're edible from time to time.

In most cases when you buy Dwarf Puffers they're juveniles and it's pretty much impossible to work out the gender until they're 6 months old and onwards.

The puffers will probably eat the hydra eventually tbh.

Time to ditch the partner and replace with a 20g then

The first picture looks like cyanobacteria to me and the second looks like bba.

The flex 9 is too small for dwarf puffers. I have 5 in the 15, but in hindsight, I would have gone bigger, because they're a shoaling species and need to be in groups of 6 or more.

I completely agree, you need more plants, heavily planted (to an obscene level) seems to work for my DPs. Maybe a small clump of Java Moss, they seem to like spawning in that or another low lying thick-ish plant.

Yes, they can predate on the eggs and fry. I have 2 babies left out of a possible 9 because I left them in with the adults. Some may have passed in other ways, but I did see an adult go for a small one or 2 over the course of them growing up.

Whilst I doubt the Oto's would bother or harm them it's just one less variable to contend with tbh.

If you're hoping to breed you might be better off keeping the puffer tank species only imo. As for the tank pictured, it looks great, but it needs more plants Some java moss would make a great spawning site too. My murder beans made some extra friends without me having to do much tbh.

Apart from frozen bloodworms, my lot will only eat live food. Thankfully I have 2 other tanks that I can harvest snails from, but finding live daphnia or anything else has been a task.

I've not seen Goldfish in tropical tanks in shops in the UK, they tend to have a coldwater section for Goldfish.

Here's my 15g, it's in need of a trim, even though it was trimmed about 10 days ago.

I'd keep them in the 29 and get more dwarf puffers.

Tbh that photo isn't clear enough to tell. But if they all have eye wrinkles and lines down their bellies then they're all male.

I started off with 3 dwarf puffers in a species only tank. 2 males and 1 female. You can't sex them when you get them from the LFS, they're just too young a majority of the time. They were happy enough in that situation to breed for me, so now I have 5 in there. I can't say I've witnessed an...