post 6-Feb-2010:
after changing water in my puffers tank i have found 6 new revolting creatures alive in a very cold barrel without nourishment at the whole time.
Do not forget that there where 1 week old babies (strong breed if i may add..)
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puffers passing time while i change the water and take the stones outside the aquarium bottom
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the puffers did not like their new location so they started to swim .. (-:
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the small survivors lived in this barrel outside my appartment, in the roof where i poured the aquarium water leftovers to water the plants later on
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the empty tank after taking all the small rocks and the biological filter outside -this produced an incresing amount of Nitrate which produces algea which make me feel uncomfortable whenever watching it
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i put a snake shape air hose which gave nice look as well as more oxigen
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after 2 weeks small white worms where found in that same barrel
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the rocks outside in a bucket, now i relay totaly on my outside biological filter to hold the good jerms
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the 4 survivors-later on i found 2 more. These tropical fish are used to 25 Celcious degrees water warmth succedded to survive in 14 Celcious for 5 days found by accident. they where small compared to their brothers in law at the main tank but healthy, living without food this all that period- amazing. to enter them inside the warm water i needed to add small portions of warm water from the main tank gradually inside their temporary container so their body will not get a shock, what called 'stress'.
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checking for Nitrite and Nitrate concetrations a week after the new tanks setup
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