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The heater broke due to stupidity on my part

Thanks. As an update, I had to change my fish. The Dwarf Puffers never settled in and... well.... you know the rest. So I switched to a platy trio and a guppy to go with red and blue shrimp

Thanks. May I also point out it is an Aquaclear 20 not 70

Hello I have an Aquaclear 75 on a 10 gallon tank. It is adjustable for 5-20 gallons. I am going to hurt anything by turning down to low just for an evening or two? I am thinking turning it down will lower the current and allow better access for my evening cleaning crew (snails and shrimp)...

I use Seachem Prime whenever I add new water. I have also started using metroplex to treat the water and garlicguard to try and get them to eat. Behavior the same. Color looks fine. One is very very thin

76-77 degrees

I had my puffers for about a week. They were happy, healthy, and eating. Starting yesterday, one of the new puffers was acting very lethargic. Just sitting on a leaf and barely moving. Now all three are doing it. They are not reacting much to anything near them. Heard of this before...

Complete. Should grow in nicely. Plants; 3 Lugwigia Natans "Super Red" 2 sword plant 6 Echinodorus "Vesuvius" 2 Anubias Nana Petite 3 Banana Plants 1 1/2 Java moss mats 1 little bunch of java moss Fish; 3 Dwarf Puffers Some ghost shrimp (so far so good) If the shrimp live, I am going to add...

Fish are fine. I had to run out this morning and get a new heater (which I like better than the old) The worst part is I had to disturb a bunch of plants and one of my hoses getting the new heater back in. VERY frustrating.

So what do you get when you are an idiot, don't take a warning label seriously, a spot in your tank you want to fix, and a distraction? Answer; burned fingers, broken glass in your tank, and a shattered aquarium heater. I needed to move something in the tank so I took the heater out, set it...

Haha, aggressive little bastards. I put some MTS in there for them which is really funny because it means in the morning I am cleaning up the snail corpses from the night's massacre

Last week I put the Dwarf Puffers in the tank with some ghost shrimp to test if they would get eaten. So far so good. I have watched the puffers occasionally curious about the shrimp but most of the time they move on. Every once in a while they will nip a fin or at a leg but nothing I would...

I am starting with Ghost Shrimp because I am putting dwarf puffers in the tank. Half of people say the shrimp are puffer bait. Half of people say the puffers leave them alone. Ghost shrimp are really inexpensive. So if they get eaten, oh well. If not, I am going to add some Fire and Rili Shrimp

Picking up some java moss, java fern, and banana plants today. Then I should be ready for fish and shrimp

Me to my LPS "Can you please get me 3 Dwarf Puffers that are NOT immature trouble makers? Thanks"