Comment on Dr. Fisher is at risk of head crabs

• stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pea puffers are so cute! I wish I had doscovered them before populating my 20g fresh with other fish. I do want to eventually have a tank with them. We have a 21g salt water AIO that’s being decomissioned (moved it to a 120) that I might explore converting to fresh water.

  I totally get the crunchy pop gushers. We had bladder snails in one tank amd when I was showing my wife how easy they were to squish if we wanted to do manual removal…it burst right into her mouth. She wasn’t happy.

  The clown loach we hired to take care of the snails did a great job, but, sadly, then wouldn’t eat anything else and starved itself.

  I’ve thought about getting one for the malaysian trumpet snails in my other tank but would hate to see another one go the same way. Although, those trumpet snails would feed them for a long while; feeding time turns the substrate into a crawling writhing mass of spiral shells. They do keep the bottom of the tank clean!

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  • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I had a 40 gallon breeder that was absolutely overrun with snails.

    I could not keep up with them, they’d get into the filter and make a gross impeller goo …

    Thousands of them.

    3 pea puffers and the tank was clear of them in days.i have a carboy I grow snails in now, dip a cucumber in the carboy to get a load of snails and dip it into the tank with the puffers for some enrichment.

    They’re ravenous.

    Their primary diet is beef heart and frozen tilapia.

    I have a Bichir that gets the same diet as these little murder balls

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    • stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Adorably murderous little ones. Kinda like these:

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    • stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I forgot to ask is the bichir was with the pea puffers?

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