cross river puffer

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Firstly welcome to another uk mfk'r. Great to see another disciple.

Would hate to scare you off here by just adding to some of the flames but there are a few points that should be made. Firstly your tank measurements are wrong. Rena only make tanks 20" wide. Their tank are shown in cm and yours is 150cm x 50cm wide x 60cm x high or roughly 60"x20"x24".

Secondly as many say your mbu is stunted. I know because I made the same mistake. Kept a mbu in the biggest Rena tank that is the same width and height as yours but 2' long so 25% more water than you. Like yours it got to about 12" and stopped growing (I suspect yours is also smaller than 18" as you are probably judging it's size by it's width across the tank which you believe to be 24" so my guess is that it's actually about 14"). It always seemed happy dancing up and down the tank and as they are not big adventurers I didn't see that it needed a big tank. Until one day I came home to find it on the top of the tank inflated and then it died. And believe me if you've kept a mbu for a number of years like you have, losing a mbu is really, really hard to take. They become family.

I wouldn't want you to go through that so I would suggest selling up is best for the fish or finding a tank at least 30" wide.
 
We're talking a little >100g here.
 
marvinbaker;4690829; said:
Firstly welcome to another uk mfk'r. Great to see another disciple.

Would hate to scare you off here by just adding to some of the flames but there are a few points that should be made. Firstly your tank measurements are wrong. Rena only make tanks 20" wide. Their tank are shown in cm and yours is 150cm x 50cm wide x 60cm x high or roughly 60"x20"x24".

Secondly as many say your mbu is stunted. I know because I made the same mistake. Kept a mbu in the biggest Rena tank that is the same width and height as yours but 2' long so 25% more water than you. Like yours it got to about 12" and stopped growing (I suspect yours is also smaller than 18" as you are probably judging it's size by it's width across the tank which you believe to be 24" so my guess is that it's actually about 14"). It always seemed happy dancing up and down the tank and as they are not big adventurers I didn't see that it needed a big tank. Until one day I came home to find it on the top of the tank inflated and then it died. And believe me if you've kept a mbu for a number of years like you have, losing a mbu is really, really hard to take. They become family.

I wouldn't want you to go through that so I would suggest selling up is best for the fish or finding a tank at least 30" wide.
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hi, and thankyou for welcoming me to the forum!
ill take some pics of tank and fish and post them up soon.
its just every aquatic store ive been to they have said smaller tanks than mine would be ok for a MBU. i might haft to sell up soon but ill see what happens.
would a RCP be ok in my tank?
thanks
 
Obviously, they've never had one at adult size for 20 years. Did you read those articles? What are the ammonia, nitrite, nitrate of your tank? What's the water change schedule? What will you be doing for your brackish puffer?
http://www.**************.com/forum...cus/an-introduction-to-green-spotted-puffers/

Obviously, a cross river puffer is out of the question, unless you completely clear out that tank of all fish & keep it as a singleton. If you do rehome the mbu, please be sure to find an owner who is aware of it's HUGE housing requirements.
 
Pufferpunk;4690777; said:
Those measurements can't be right. He says a 450L tank, which is only ~100g.

How is a 100g tank, "following the requirements" of a site that recommends a minimum of 500g?
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We have a winner! As usual, Pufferpunk hands out the trump...:headbang2

MBU, that puffer should be in a 800-1000 gallon tank. So you stated 450L, but then said 6x2x2... if it's actually a 180 gallon, it would be perfect for a single Fahaka.
 
The site he referenced gives the measurements of the larger "suggested" tank, not the OP.
 
hi, yes read the articals and taken in the advice:)
ph - 7
ammonia - 0
nitrate - 7mg
nitrite - 1
40 % every 7 days through the evolution aqua declorinater.
im not sure about the green spotted puffer as its been fine for all these years and loads of over websites say its fine in tropical :1zhelp:
thanks
 
ANY amount of nitrite is extremely toxic to your fish. You really need to figure something out ASAP. Your tank is too overstocked/undersized to establish the waste put out by the bioload of these fish.

Keeping a BW fish in FW for the 1st couple of years may prove to be fine but it will shorten it's lifespan by many years, considering they can live into their late teens. Are any of these sites quoting this kind of success with their GSPs in FW?
 
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