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I find many of the tests in the Master Test Kit unnecessary. The pertinent tests you need are: ammonia/nitrite/nitrate.
 
Pufferpunk;4615572; said:
Again PC, I am pretty sure after 2 months, that tank has all the nitrificating bacteria it can grow. That isn't the problem. The problem is the bioload. There never will be enough room in that tank to support enough bacteria for that.

As far as public aquariums--I had to correct the ID & care of many of the puffers they were keeping at the Shedd, here in Chicago.
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But he has been over-cleaning and changing the media????
 
Pufferpunk;4615572; said:
Again PC, I am pretty sure after 2 months, that tank has all the nitrificating bacteria it can grow. That isn't the problem. The problem is the bioload. There never will be enough room in that tank to support enough bacteria for that.

As far as public aquariums--I had to correct the ID & care of many of the puffers they were keeping at the Shedd, here in Chicago.
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LOL..the other day I found a YT video of a MBU puffer labeled as a congo mirus at a Shedd aquarium. I do not know where the aquarium was but I got a good chuckle.
 
purplecandle;4615580; said:
CCUsharknerd -

I just want to say I understand your points...

But, I want to add...these are the experts on puffers. A year ago I was in the same boat as the OP. I had a GSP in a 20 gallon with goldfish LOL!!! I call those my dummy days! Anyways, I still have that GSP, along with others as I am a puffer addict and I owe it all to many of the same people who have posted in this thread.

Their credentials are spotless and most of what is known in the pufferfish keeping world has been written by them along with other PHDs, puffer addicts and veterinarians.

So argue with because you think they were rude or because you do not like them or whatever you like, but do not argue with their expertise because it is darn near flawless.
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If it will further the main point of my posting anything in the first place, which was to say basically "play nice", then I'm more than happy to drop the arguments about specifics. We all have our own way of doing things, some of us more correctly than others. What I had a problem with is, for the most part, solved. I shall leave the lot of you to it.
 
people, cool it please
This thread is going down the drain, and it is everybody's fault, especially the adult ones.
 
CCUsharknerd;4615592; said:
If it will further the main point of my posting anything in the first place, which was to say basically "play nice", then I'm more than happy to drop the arguments about specifics. We all have our own way of doing things, some of us more correctly than others. What I had a problem with is, for the most part, solved. I shall leave the lot of you to it.
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Ok gotcha!
 
just remember to keep doing water changes and to clean the filters. if you want a fish not as dirty as a pleco and alot cuter in my opinion, but still gets the algae, is otocinclus catfish. theyre great and easy!
 
Rawrzer;4615611; said:
just remember to keep doing water changes and to clean the filters. if you want a fish not as dirty as a pleco and alot cuter in my opinion, but still gets the algae, is otocinclus catfish. theyre great and easy!
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Now sir/mam I know you are crazy! Plecos are way cuter..and they eat diatoms! Just kidding! Ottos are cute as well...
 
Rawrzer;4615611; said:
just remember to keep doing water changes and to clean the filters. if you want a fish not as dirty as a pleco and alot cuter in my opinion, but still gets the algae, is otocinclus catfish. theyre great and easy!
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I already moved him out. I will just use an algae control liquid. Or is that not suitable for the puffers?
 
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