Issues and Feeding Amazon Puffers (Collab)
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- Today we feed our Amazon Puffer fish also known as South American puffer fish, Bee puffer and Brazilian puffer. (Colomesus Asellus)The Amazon puffer loves to eat snails, bloodworms, freeze dried krill and shrimp. We are trying to add other foods such as miss shrimp but as yet with no success.
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Great video Sheila!
I enjoyed yours! Thanks!
It was a pleasure collabing with you!
Keep up the good work and thumbs up as always! #Fishfam
Thanks Danny!
Danny's Aquariums any help with getting the amazons to go for snails? I have tons of tiny to large snails and they are just ignored... should I go a day without feeding them blood worms so they will hunt for snails?
I have had my amazon puffers for about 4 months now. I had glass surfing issues in the beginning also. Adding more puffers to a total of 5 and just giving it time solved it. It took about 2 months for them to stop doing it. Now they are the amazing puffers every one thinks they are!
That is good to hear. Thank you for sharing. We have been trying to get more but can't find any. Once we can get more we will.
I had the same problem. I originally got the last one from my fish store (a pretty young one) and was waiting and waiting and waiting for more. He was all by his lonesome for about a month and half. The new 4 I got were much older/bigger than the first one but they all got along just fine! They are all in a 60 gallon with Sunset Gouramis, Otos, Panda Garra, Celestial Pearl Danios, and one female killi gardneri. The puffers have never once even acted like they knew the other fish are there lol, they completely ignore them and just do their own thing. It is in a moderately planted tank with some large driftwood and rocks.
Awesome video Sheila! Always love seeing puffers, they're just so stinkin' cute!
They certainly are!
For what it is worth, you can can create a natural flow using a sump or canister filter by pulling from one side and returning to the other. Add a power head near the return to add flow at a different angle or height and it should create a natural side to side flow with added currents. I would like to ask you if you have had any issues with the teeth and needing to trim them and if not, how you have had success keeping it ground down? As far as glass surfing, the solution I have seen others have success with is much heavier planting. I can not remember the source, but this guy redid the tank with heavy planting, he claimed it reduced the surfing behavior to near zero, but they still did it from time to time. He said they began displaying hunting behaviors, exploring between plants.
I have two of these awesome fish. They are glass surfing, too. One more than the other. I noticed that they relax a bit when the light is off and when I raised the temperature, but they still surf. I was attributed it to stress as I haven’t had them very long. I hope they calm down and enjoy their home.
Can you get yours to eat snails? Mine just ignore the bladder and ramshorn snails in the tank and only eat blood worms & I’m worried their beaks will grow too long... how are yours?
Jennifer Crawford mine are still super shy so I haven’t seen them eat. It’s a bit worrisome. What I’ve been doing is gathering up a whole bunch of snails via cucumbers. Then drop them all in the back (where they hang out) except for a few. I break the rest up a bit with a wooden spoon and drop those in too. The blood and stuff seems to peak their interest. I do get floating empty snail shells so I’m assuming they’re eating. I have to admit that I’m concerned about them more than I enjoy them. I do love them though.
Venice Jose I love mine too but they stress me and sometimes I just have to turn the lights off and block it out for a while... I struggle with the obsessive wall surfing and I cracked open a snail and my other fish started eating it... the puffers love blood worms but I have a ton of snails and I’ve seen them kind of “peck” at the snails and jerk back as if they can’t eat even the smallest of snails?? They don’t do a lot of the hunting behavior I would like to see but their beaks do not appear too long to eat and they have No issues with the blood worms... I don’t know.. I’m like you.. I love the puffers but my anxiety over them is sky high! Lol
My green spotted puffers do that all the time in my reef tank usually when they eat they are happy again though.
I love them!!! They are so peaceful, even the most of the puffers are aggressive but as I can see they aren't good job👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Love these puffers! Glad you're taking steps to remedy the glass surfing!
Thanks! It's going well!
@@Lifewithpets72 hi wat did your experiment to stop the glass surfing work?? Can you tell me what you done please?
Cool video sheila thank u for sharing ur progress on the amazon puffer those are really cute fish.
Love it! never imagined puffers as a community fish. but I never knew there was so many different types.
Thankfully they get along great with the other fish.
Hello- glad to finally catch a video! Great job!
About 25 years ago I had 3 Amazon puffers. The store I worked at knew nothing apart from them being from SA and freshwater. Since all had died except those 3 by the time I saw them, I had to rescue them and they grew 6 to 8" long! They were in a 15 gallon tank on their own, ate only Hikari pellets, LOVED nestling down curled up in the sand at night, and literally begged at the front of the tank for food. I had them for 8 years, until the littlest one got sick and died, and I just couldn't save the others. I knew that puffers release toxins into the water when they die, so I was doing water changes daily, but couldn't save them. I wish I had money at the time to have given them a bigger tank. I was devastated when I lost them. They were like little puppies... splashing and clacking their teeth on the glass when they saw me coming.
Helpful info. Thanks for sharing the glass surfing info. Never heard of it before. Betting the make over worked. (watching that video soon). BTW subbing
Very informational and they are the cutest fish.
Thanks!
I have ordered one a couple days ago, and I will have the store contact me when they have got my puffer in the store!
hay Sheila my green spotted puffer also swims up and down but mostly at night about an hour before I go to bed I notice him swimming up and down infront of the pump where there is high flow so I guess it just keeps them busy.
They are such little cuties. It's good to see them get along so well with the other fishes. My flowerhorn used to glass surf as well to not because he was stressed but mostly cause he just wanted to get at his reflection. He mainly used to surf the back and side glass panels. I ended up painting my glass black and the glass surfing stopped immediately. Don't really know if that's gonna work for puffers but thats what worked for my fish.
Cristina Chavez-Elbanna I painted the back and the side walls.
Sheila, yeah I had five male guppies when I first started the hobby and they love to swim up and down the glass where the bulkhead stream was the strongest I thought they were playing in the stream. But when I posted the video in a guppy group they told me my fish are stressed! It freaked me out so I did try different things putting up a sheet against the glass so they couldn’t see themselves in the glare. tried keeping the lights off or keeping the lights low. White light blue light. which did seem to help some. Then I got a different tank for just guppies and I put them in there and they stop doing it they went from a 35 hexagon to a 50 gallon rectangle and they stop doing the glass surfing. So I don’t know if it was just because the tank was so deep? The hexagon is 24 inches deep as opposed to the 20 inches deep and the 50. anyway I’m just glad they’re no longer doing it. Now when I see a fish do it now randomly in my all-male 50 gallon, I worry they have a ich & itching or worms it’s just a never-ending worry.
My 4 amazons did this to.
For some strange reason they quit doing it after i changed the current pointing towards the surface!
What also worked was blinding the glass, this reduces the reflection on the inside.
Both worth a try!
Have you ever had issues with their beaks growing? I have 5 and they refuse to eat snails.
I want puffer fish now
I have you thought about blacking out the back and sides of the tank? It would cut down on the reflection and in the video they seem to stay and the back glass so you could just paint the back :) hope this helps
Thanks. We did try putting black card at the back of the tank but it made no difference. Unfortunately painting the tank is not an option.
LXXXIX it works
LXXXIX maybe not paint but easily cut out paper & it doesn’t even have to be black. Mine went from surfing 99% of the time to about 55%.. it’s better at least
I want a puffer fish now !!
Add a background pic to the back and side of the tank, blue works best for me.
This did not work for us. We have since solved the problem.
@@Lifewithpets72 how?
We used the material that we make our tank dividers out of. If you look on our channel at recent videos you will see we set up a 125 gallon. We showed the process of adding the material to the tank. The Puffers do great in there.
What about a background to go on the back of the tank that might help xx
yes its is stress, increase your number to 6, ebay has some for sale
Surfing the glass isn’t a problem for Amazon Puffers unless that’s all they do when it’s a well planted aquarium.
You might try and turn lights off that might keep down there reflecting on the glass
Thanks, we tried that but sadly it made no difference.
It all looks beautiful
Do you trim their teeth often? If not what do you feed them? Thank you!
I don't know why my SAPs always rush to the glass like they going to crash it..
I'm so worried about it. It seems like they don't like my aquarium. And, these days their band looks pale and body color is bright yellow.
Humm.. Moves like crazy and color getting pale.... What's wrong with them? ㅠ.ㅠ
It sounds like a stress behavior. We had trouble with ours doing the same thing. We eventually planted the tank heavily and lined the inside on the tank with a our tank divider material. That solved the problem. If you check out our setting up a 125 gallon tank video you will see us moving them to a new tank and using the lining again.
@@Lifewithpets72 Oh I've just checked your video^^ What a huge! And beautiful lol,,
Thanks for your advice. It was very helpful.👍
Where did you get your amazon puffers? Been looking for them for so long.
Wetspot tropical fish.
Love the tank!
Thanks!
Hi Sheila Enjoyed watching the tank it is so pretty. My pea puffers like to hunt in my planted tank. They are always cruising looking for food. (snail) Never had amazon puffers. Do they have similar traits? Thanks for sharing info.
Yes, they do have similar traits. They can usually live with other fish and do get a lot bigger.
I have a Amazon puffer and the problem that I'm having is he won't eat snails he will check them out but he will never commit to them.
My puffers black lines are always faded? Know anything about that!!
I have one like that. I think that's just their color.
Even with the hard shelled foods..do you have to cut down their teeth once a year?
Yes, it’s looking like we’re going to have to.
Lifewithpets would love to see a video of the proper way to do it. Your puffers are adorable!!!
I'm awake!
Did the tank dividers blacken the walls?
Yes, it worked really well. You can DM me on Instagram lifewithpets72.
What does surfing the glass mean?
Frantic swimming up and down the glass.
You have to remember these are wild caught so they are used to an “endless” swimming space in the wild so will take them a few weeks or months to get used to the fact they can’t go further than the tank itself give it time they will calm down
took my amazon puffer 2 days to stop hugging the glass
Glass surfing because puffers are shy. Too many other fish. Sure there's plenty of room and puffers are outgoing with their owners but they don't like a lot of other tank mates. They're so aware of their surroundings, it's just too much stimulation.
Have you considered contacting Cory from Aquarium Co-op. Maybe he would have some thoughts?
I have been able to almost stop them from doing it. Video out soon.
Great vid
My amazon puffer eats dry food. Quite handy...😂
Wow!
can you elaborate on the food?
Can somebody quickly fill me in on what glass surfing is? - I've only ever had about 20 fish and I've never heard of an issue like this. o.o
It’s where they constantly frantically swim up and down the glass.
Snails, and freeze dried krill. And mysis shrimp for a treat. None of the things you feed will help with their teeth growth.
They are puffers. I have a species only Amazon puffer tank for a couple years Now, don't expect the swimming up and down to stop.
We feed snails, shrimp, freeze dried krill, blood worms and brine shrimp.They will also pick at beef heart. I keep offering Mysis shrimp but as yet they won't eat it. We have drastically changed the tank and they've almost stopped. They did it almost 24/7 and now only occasionally which I can live with. Do you ever have to trim their teeth?
Where are the Bettas!!!!
Maybe add more snails for them to hunt and distract them
There are already a lot of snails and shrimp in the tank but thanks for the suggestion.
Wow I'm so fast
A little late 😣
The animals from the amazon can be wild& dangerous
Have you learned how to sex them? Yours seem to be darker in coloration than mine I'm not sure what this means or if it is a gender thing?
No, according to my research it's not possible, but I could be wrong.