Deadeye’s Amazon Puffer Thread

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Added loads of hornwort on Wednesday. Bought it along with 1000 scuds from goliad farms. Very pleased with it. Along with them were some guppy fry, a cherry shrimp, planarian, and a lot of pond snails!
I've ordered from them before. I need to place another order. I didn't get fry but a little other stuff mixed in. May be molly fry or swordtails don't think they do much with guppies but I could be wrong.
 
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I've ordered from them before. I need to place another order. I didn't get fry but a little other stuff mixed in. May be molly fry or swordtails don't think they do much with guppies but I could be wrong.
Might be mosquitofish. I know they breed those.
 
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Thanks! I’ve been practicing for POTM lol.

Congrats! They are a lot of fun! Have they started eating yet? That’s probably the hardest part about them.
Somewhat surprisingly, they ate first day! They had apparently been in the store for over a month. No signs of disease or weird behavior yet. They ate bloodworms and snails today.
 
Somewhat surprisingly, they ate first day! They had apparently been in the store for over a month. No signs of disease or weird behavior yet. They ate bloodworms and snails today.
That’s good! These guys are usually hard to get eating (one of mine I basically had to drop food right in front of to get eating). The glass surfing is crazy for some...
 
Everyone is still good. Strong appetites on the foods they like and all have taken to snails and scuds.
I finally was able to get a shot of each one individually, so I can post profiles now (sorry for the crappy pics, they are fast…).

Huey:
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Notable characteristics: Black spot under mouth, bright yellow colors.
Behavior: Calm, intelligent, very well tank-broken.

Dewey:
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Notable characteristics: Fat, long teeth, typically more of a golden yellow with faint stripes, black mark on caudal fin.
Behavior: Glass surfer, strong food response, the classic Amazon puffer behavior.

Louie:
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Notable characteristics: Golden yellow with strong stripes, smaller black stripe behind anal fin compared to Huey and Louie.
Behavior: Thinks he’s a dwarf puffer, wallows in gravel, disappears in plants, not much of a feeding response, but I know he eats.

All 3 show no signs of aggression to tankmates. The tetras and loaches have also calmed down, so the tank is very peaceful.
 
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