Bloodroot
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Okay three questions.
1. I want to make a soild hill in the bottom of my tank so that on oneside of the hill I can have one type of substraite on one side and a different type on the other side. A type of aquarium silicon should work correct?
2. My lfs (semi chain store) are pretty good... up to their knowledge on dwarf puffers. They have them in brackish water... *shivers* unfortunatly they are the only place that I can get dwarf puffers in the area. And online shopping is not an option due to the minimum delivery service I have in the area...
So I will need to slowly change out the salt.
So here is my question... how do I do that?
Can I acclimate them in one day? Slowly add fresh water from the tank until the salt level is very minimal? Or do I have to do this over a couple days/weeks? I was really hoping to have a very large snail population in the tank befor I put the puffers in so they will automatically have fresh live food... so salt is not good...
I was thinking about the stress on their poor little body that the salt would be causing. Wouldnt the change in watet out weight the stress they may feel in the chamge?
3. Snails will be enough to start a cycle in my tank, correct? I was going to start with MTSs as I found a really awesome article about never having to "feed" dwarf puffers by having a good MTS population in the tank.
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1. I want to make a soild hill in the bottom of my tank so that on oneside of the hill I can have one type of substraite on one side and a different type on the other side. A type of aquarium silicon should work correct?
2. My lfs (semi chain store) are pretty good... up to their knowledge on dwarf puffers. They have them in brackish water... *shivers* unfortunatly they are the only place that I can get dwarf puffers in the area. And online shopping is not an option due to the minimum delivery service I have in the area...
So I will need to slowly change out the salt.
So here is my question... how do I do that?
Can I acclimate them in one day? Slowly add fresh water from the tank until the salt level is very minimal? Or do I have to do this over a couple days/weeks? I was really hoping to have a very large snail population in the tank befor I put the puffers in so they will automatically have fresh live food... so salt is not good...
I was thinking about the stress on their poor little body that the salt would be causing. Wouldnt the change in watet out weight the stress they may feel in the chamge?
3. Snails will be enough to start a cycle in my tank, correct? I was going to start with MTSs as I found a really awesome article about never having to "feed" dwarf puffers by having a good MTS population in the tank.
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