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My Aquarium

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I though I might show off my puffers and other aquatic creatures. I mean after all, we are the world biggest show and tell!

10 comments

Oct 25, 2011. 4:30 PMwater rat says:

I'm looking into breeding snails (and mealworms) for my rats & the local wildlife rehab center. Would you consider doing an Instructable on how you raise your snails?

TYSM!

Oct 25, 2011. 5:45 PMArbitror (author) says:

Snails eat aquatic snails? Never knew!

Anyhow, while I was on vacation the filter pump in my snail tank died, and the water got infested with algae! I still have yet to buy a new pump and resupply on snails. When I do though, I will for sure make an instructable!

Oct 25, 2011. 6:38 PMwater rat says:

oooooooooh, your snails ate each other?

Dec 29, 2011. 5:11 PMArbitror (author) says:

Hehe, I just read my comment above, and realized I meant to say:

Rats eat aquatic snails? Never knew!

Dec 31, 2009. 1:25 PMArbitror (author) says:

I guess so... Everything was dead when I got back, everything BUT the algae...

Sep 14, 2010. 11:45 AM

Tool Using Animal says:

Nice tank, do your puffers require live food, or will they eat frozen and or flake?

Mar 30, 2010. 10:11 PMArbitror (author) says:

They won't eat flake food unless they are dying from starvation, but even then, they might still ignore it because it doesn't look like food to them. I currently am feeding them frozen blood worms, until my snails in my snail breeding tank mature. I am planning on giving them a snail only diet in the future, but I can only do that once my snail breeding tank is setup and producing snails steadily. You can follow my progress with the dwarf puffers here:

bm-aquaria.blogspot.com

Nov 26, 2010. 4:42 PMArbitror (author) says:

Now I'm feeding them a mix of freeze dried and frozen blood worms. The snails in my breeding tank have procreated, with 50-80 baby snails. The originals have grown to about 1.5cm, and are ready to be fed to my puffers. But I only have 3 originals, so I'll have to wait for the offspring to grow and procreate before I can have a steady supply of snails. So I'll have to wait for a month or so till I can change their diet.

Sep 15, 2010. 1:26 AMVoid Schism says:

Exactly how is this an instructable?
It's not, so it shouldn't be here.

Sep 15, 2010. 6:01 AM

Tool Using Animal says:

What can I use slideshows for?
Slideshows are for showing off photos of what you made or did, but don't have full instructions to create an Instructable with.