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Post by kuni on Jul 31, 2009 16:04:57 GMT
Don't have personalities? Get some pufferfish (the dwarf variety is easiest and cheapest) and disabuse yourself of that notion. Cichlids often have great personalities too.
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Jul 31, 2009 17:47:02 GMT
Don't have personalities? Get some pufferfish (the dwarf variety is easiest and cheapest) and disabuse yourself of that notion. Cichlids often have great personalities too. Can they live in hard water? Right now I have mollies and guppies, also known as basically the easiest fish to care for ever...
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Post by kuni on Jul 31, 2009 18:01:27 GMT
I have my dwarf puffers in hard water and they do fine (www.dwarfpuffers.com has a lot of info on them). Despite their small size, they are ornery like most puffers and will terrorize much larger fish, so they do best in a single-species tank, with 1 puff per 4-5 gallons. I keep mine with ghost shrimp - the shrimp are fun to watch, eat the leftover puffer food, and if a puffer eats one they're cheap to replace (usually <50 cents).
If you have a tank that is 40 gallons or more, you can keep a greenspotted puffer, but they need brackish water as they age. (I find salthingyer puffers to be more trouble then they're worth because puffers need frequent water changes and that gets expensive with salt). Greenspotted puffers and mollies have a similar brackish water preference, but the puffer might attack the mollies. (correction: it will bite their heads off in seconds, according to people who tried to keep the two together)
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Post by sbell on Jul 31, 2009 18:24:07 GMT
Don't have personalities? Get some pufferfish (the dwarf variety is easiest and cheapest) and disabuse yourself of that notion. Cichlids often have great personalities too. Can they live in hard water? Right now I have mollies and guppies, also known as basically the easiest fish to care for ever... They'd do great together. The puffers would really appreciate the guppies especially. It's a funny thing, but for such awkward-looking fish, puffers are very effective hunter-killers.
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Post by kuni on Jul 31, 2009 18:34:18 GMT
Well, they're effective within the confines of an aquarium where evasive fish can't outmanuever the puffer....
Now, there's a whole group of freshwater puffers that specialize on ambushing fish by burying themselves in sand....those guys really do a number on fish.
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Post by Tyrannax on Aug 1, 2009 5:42:22 GMT
Puffers make excellent pets, but they are aggressive and will nip your finger. They can live peacefully with Eels as well.
Lionfish can also live well with Eels, but Lions and Puffers may lead to disaster.
I do not recommend Lionfish though as they can most certainly kill you, if not get close to it.
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Post by kuni on Aug 1, 2009 6:05:47 GMT
I wouldn't trust a puffer in anything but a single-species tank, based on what I've read from puffer-keeping fanatics.
I wouldn't keep a salthingyer puffer because I wouldn't want to own a fish that was poisoned and captured off of its coral reef just so I could have one.
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Post by Tyrannax on Aug 1, 2009 7:55:34 GMT
I've read Puffers and Eels are nicely compatible, yet they are both highly greedy and need to given individual amounts of foods. Otherwise, the Puffer would easily out compete the Eels.
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Post by kuni on Aug 13, 2009 16:28:29 GMT
Gar figure *found*! www.aquarium.co.jp/news/2009/figure2009.htmlUnfortunately, it's in one of those darn museum-only sets Perhaps if several of us contacted someone in Japan, they'd see there was a demand and get them....
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Post by sbell on Aug 13, 2009 16:43:38 GMT
I'm working on it. I will have that gar. The others are good too.
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Aug 13, 2009 17:01:36 GMT
I want that gar And that bullhead shark. And for teton, the nautilus.... ;D
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Post by kuni on Aug 13, 2009 19:42:17 GMT
If you're interested in these fish, PM sbell or me for the "contact" - perhaps if there's a critical mass it'll be easier.
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Post by bokisaurus on Aug 14, 2009 2:08:17 GMT
NO! I'm not looking! You guys are bad! ;D ;D ;D Cool set, but financially not feasible for me to try and chase ;D
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Post by Ajax on Aug 14, 2009 4:35:24 GMT
Rather than start a new thread i will ask this here, Can someone help with this, Which is the best shark replica that resembles a 1/40 scale Megalodon? Or is there a Megalodon figure I don't know about and what period did they live in?
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Post by piltdown on Aug 14, 2009 4:40:14 GMT
There is a Medicom megalodon, but it's rather diminutive. The best megalodon stand-in for me is the Schleich Replica Great White shark
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Post by kuni on Aug 14, 2009 4:59:00 GMT
The Monteray Bay Great White Shark is bit more imposing than the Schleich, but they're both solid figures. (I *do* have an extra monteray bay shark, act now before I leave it in Florida... )
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Post by Ajax on Aug 14, 2009 5:08:04 GMT
Yes both look nice, which is bigger?
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Post by kuni on Aug 14, 2009 5:10:08 GMT
The Monteray Bay one is noticeably larger.
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Post by Ajax on Aug 14, 2009 5:25:35 GMT
Ok thanks, so Schleich's is 1/32 which makes the monteray Bay one even bigger, say 1/30. Im just checking as i need to buy one for a sea diorama i plan on making. I also need to know (time period) when the first full size Megalodon was discovered? as i have found different sites telling me different time periods.
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Post by kuni on Aug 14, 2009 6:54:33 GMT
The Monteray bay stuff might be 1/30, at least for the sharks and dolphins and such - you'd want to look into that.
If you do want one, I'd be happy to part with mine, check my classifieds thread.
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