9g Biube Money Pit

[TMaier]

Loads of personality.

 

[Autumnsky]

Sounds like he is in heaven on earth!

 

[TMaier]

He makes me crazy though! He will be hovering in the tank staring a hole in me and when I get my camera out he's all over the place.

 

[Delapool]

Gosh, he looks fantastic there.

 

[SundanceCassidy]

He really does look great.

 

[TMaier]

Thanks!

 

[nirbhao]

Helicopter puppy

 

[Caliban07]

He makes me crazy though! He will be hovering in the tank staring a hole in me and when I get my camera out he's all over the place. View attachment 290759
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My girlfriend can never see these pics. She will want one no question. Cute little blighter.

 

[Delapool]

My girlfriend can never see these pics. She will want one no question. Cute little blighter.

Are they available your way? Just curious, don't see them here.

 

[Caliban07]

Are they available your way? Just curious, don't see them here.

Yeah see them lots.

 

[TMaier]

If she happens to see one, just show her some of the YouTube videos of them eating and hunting. My coworkers are trying to make me feel bad putting all the beautiful pink snails in there for him to destroy and devour. He's a vicious little cutie pie.

 

[TMaier]

53rd Birthday today and I got an idiot proof light for Mr Puff.
http://www.biorb.com/en-us/shop/aquarium-accessories/heating-and-lighting/intelligent-led-light/

 

[Delapool]

Wow - that looked great! But more importantly is he happy with it?!

 

[TMaier]

Wow - that looked great! But more importantly is he happy with it?!

I haven't got it set up yet. I have a few days to figure out how it work and I will put it on Mr. Puffs tank on Monday.

 

[TMaier]

Mr. Puffs new light is working great. No more dark weekends.

I have been giving him ramshorns and MTS. He definitely prefers the ramshorns.

https://youtu.be/bRDn6zMjHTU

And he really wants me to move the glass ornament...

 

[TMaier]

I have not updated in a while. November was not a good month for me. Mr Puff passed 11/22. I had tested the water 11/21 and it was perfect. I did a 50% PWC (with Prime) and removed that big coral chunk. I suspect it may have been much at one time? I tested the water again after finding him and it was still perfect. No ammonia or nitrites. I have been doing more research and I keep finding conflicting info on these guys. Are the brackish? I was told he was fresh when I bought him, but I keep seeing info he could have needed brackish water. At the moment the snails own the tank.

 

[Autumnsky]

Sorry about Mr. Puff. Those things are so hard. Especially when it doesn't seem like there should have been any. How about maybe if wild caught could have had some kind of internal parasite.

He was this kind, correct?
Tropical Fish for Freshwater Aquariums: Indian Dwarf Puffer.

 

[TMaier]

No the tank he came out of said Dwarf spotted puffer. And there were Figure 8 Puffers in there too.

 

[nirbhao]

I've read that they are brackish but can live in freshwater while young.

That's the fish my daughter fell in love with in the first place. After researching their needs, I felt like, as a beginner, I wouldn't be able to take care of a puffer well.

 

[flchamp89]

I had one a couple years ago never got them to last more than 6 months or so.