Setting up a Brackish Water tank to Save My Figure 8 Puffer
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
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Haven't seen brackish water based tanks in a while. I remember a few years ago watching a video on a brackish water tank with Mudskippers. Speaking of which, you should try to raise some! Great job in your videos as always.
Might wanna treat Zeus for internal paracites as well at the 7:50 mark where his eating the snail he has a mad stringy white poo
Well done on the instructions on puffers a lot of people get them without looking in to it witch leads to death and also Zeus could do with a little more plants to hide for a place to hide but amazing job
@ Wild world of Farley brother you rock keep up the great content plus many blessings onto you and your beautiful family much love from Cape Breton Nova Scotia and stay strong in these crazy times
Thanks brother. I appreciate your support. Stay safe. Many blessings to you and your family as well.
Nice brackish water setup there. Been thinking to have one of those.
This quarantine days just been busy doing water change, and looking and feeding my community fish and betta.
Get a bumble bee gobbie and name it biggie. Even though its a small fish.they tend to get along.
Ese pez globo es de agua dulce!!! No salada, solo tolera la sal en cierta medida pero no la necesita!!! Morirá en poco tiempo!!! 🥺
7 comment Farley thank you for the amazing content and thank you for making quarantine fun Love your videos 👍💯
Thanks for your support brother !
I was literally thinking how great of a name for a lil' puffer, Puff Daddy would be. Nice.
Hell ya yeeaahhhh!!!
Does adding marine salt effect the bacteria in the aquarium with regards the nitrate cycle? Is it the same type of bacteria in both the fresh and brackish water nitrate cycle or do we have to cycle an independent tank specifically set up as brackish in order to establish a proper environment to transfer them to? Or can you simply alter their current environment from freshwater to brackish with no issue?
Great video! This was the first time a see a video of yours. And I really love it. Great filming, nice background music and you really give good information. I also have a figure 8 puffer, but he/she is still in freshwater, think I have to change the water from fresh into brackish soon.
Thank You 🙏🏻
Puffy daddy is not to be outdone by Zeus lol love em both cool fish champ
Thank you for this! I have a figure 8 puffer that I’ve had in a freshwater tank for almost a year with some tropical fish and I want to switch him over to a brackish tank!!
Loved that, thank you. My favourite little puffers
They are so adorable
What about making the tank more interesting? And you need a bigger filter plus a sponge filter that is separate
He’s gonna get bored in that tank
He needs to acclimate slower to beamish over a couple weeks
Then throw in some mollies and call them Jr. Mafia.
when P-Diddy is over 2 feet long in his pool pond... hope nobody thinks it's a hot tub, cuz he is always hungry for some 'snails'... ;)
What's good today Farley, thanks got sharing the knowledge. I do a lot of water testing at work but nothing that applies to fish keeping.
Thank you for making this! I’m thinking of getting a figure 8 puffer and want to do some research on them, is feeding them pretty costly? I have a mandarin dragonet and she needs tons of money for her pods. Haha. In my saltwater tank
Enjoyed this video a lot good stuff. Stay safe stay wildn’
I’m pretty sure they even grow up in brackish water in the wild, and while the figure 8 stays in its brackish climate, leopard puffers often migrate to the ocean.
Thanks for showing us how to make a brackish water fish tank thats the next fish tank on my list
So cool bro 👌 watching from the Philippines 😁
Hi Farley
I have this Figure 8 Puffer that is basically healthy. He eats good and is not picked on, but he does a lot of pacing, aka glass surfing.
Also, occasionally, he'll go into this eratic pattern where he'll swim like he's drunk, go in circles, run into things, etc.
Then, he'll mysteriously snap out of it.
First time I saw this I thought I was losing him.
I have a well furnished and planted 55g brackish tank for him, but he still surfs a lot.
Have you ever encountered this drunken behavior in puffers??
Do an update on your figure 8 I have two of them they are amazing fish.
More CASTNET VIDS! ITS illegal here 😢
You the best ..💪💪
Hey Farley, you ever thought about a Lemon Oscar? I have a tiger Oscar in a 90 gallon aquarium, but I would love to own a Lemon Oscar they look so cool.
I just lost one of my newish f8s this morning he wasn't doing great to start with his belly would never fill up and go round like the others after eating it was likemit was collaped inward I feel like crap I hate to loose a fish! Puffers are my favourite I love your MBU what age will he be? I want one myself I've went and got the big tank set up for one but want one the size you have to bring him up as my own! Most for sale are massive people can't keep no longer I'm holding out to find a younger one first before making that move if I have too!
Thank you so much for this video yesterday I bought a green spotted puffer fish not knowing what I got into I noticed he wasn’t feeling himself and was doing my research and thank the Lord you posted about us you save my puffer fish God bless you his name is Jabba the Hutt 🥰
I’m happy to hear that. 😀
I see 'uses lake water' I hit subscribe.
Baby puffers would be 😎
Your puffer name is puff daddy...😂
The diddler
Hey bro is your figure 8 still Alive? I slow dripped my puffer for about 5 hours until he reached the salinity of 1.004. My water is good as well I had him for 2 months I have a Seachem ammonia checker that monitors all day it’s safe. My ph, kh, nitrates, hardness, and temperature is fine. He seemed to have gotten stressed out turned really dark and was not eating he was like that for about three days and died. Any recommendations I see you had success.
Id say that u should calculate how many teaspoons do u have to put to get desired lv of salinity
Then add like one spoon everyday also u dont have to be very accurate as in backwaters etc brackish water areas salinity changes a lot
Maybe you can get a green spotted puffer to and put in with Zeus
I hope everything works out fine !!
I have to make this clear. A brackish water fish means that it can handle large changes of salinity. Some grow up in salt and live in fresh, so its the other way around. Others stay right in middle. They need a bit of salt in their life's. It does not mean that all brackish fish need it. A bull shark shouldnt even be on the list of brackish water. It can live its whole life in fresh water just fine. It can live its whole life in salt water just fine.
Is this about adult size ?
My future 8 doesn't seem very well I have had him for about 3 weeks and he's not looking to good for the past 4 days so I'm guessing it's because I have him in fresh water
Nice close ups, perhaps get a stand to keep the camera steady?
Lol I named my Figure 8 Diddy
Cool thanks love that name
YES SIR THAT'S MY NAME YEAH
hello I have a 10 gallon tank. Can I put those fish in there or is it to small?
Is brackish salt ok I'm not used to this salt
i was told to acclimatise my puffer over the course of a couple of weeks so i just done it by adding salt to get same concentration as u did but just done it through couple weeks doing it thru water changes so it was more diluted when added to tank and just kept doin it with water changes feel like i wasted a lot of time after seein ur vid haha😂
Nick Bailey I did a fair amount of research and found that most puffers can naturally adapt the the changes in salinity as in the wild they constantly have to do so depending on where they are swimming. but it’s better safe than sorry. I acclimated my puffer over several hours and the end result was an increase of specific gravity from
@@wildworldoffarley i no longer have my figure 8😭 but i do still have pea puffers and also purchased a schoutedeni spotted congo puffer who i love hes the most chilled puffer ive had eats from my pipette n just watches me all the time
Nice I have a figure 8 named George
Yay thanks man do you remember me saying he should hopefully live for about 10 years now, you may want to add some hiding places and his looks a bit white as he is blending into the sand.
I remember. What’s up buddy! I think he’s stressed due to the new environment. I’m going to change his tank and add more decorations
Wild World of Farley Yes does look like it puffers are intelligent and when moving tank is one of the most stressful things in a week he should be begging for food again 😀
@ Wild world of Farley brother can I ask you how much I can expect to have to pay for a figure 8 puffer if I choose that type of puffer fish
Hadley CapeBreton they are about £5 in the uk so presume in the us they should be under $10
How’s it going brother. You can expect to pay around $11-$35. The puffer ranges about $8-11 but if you order it online over night shipping is about $24.
www.petzonesd.com/figure-8-puffer/
@ Wild World of Farley -Farley brother you’re awesome thank you for all your help it is so greatly appreciated now I know why I love your channel content is always on spot with information and inspiration that you share is amazing
Is that an Anubias in Zeus new tank?
Zeus looks like he wants a friend, looks kinda lonely
Can you transition them over relatively instantly because everyone’s iffy on if you should wait 6 weeks or 1 hour please help I have 6 green spotted puffers and I have everything I need to transition just don’t know how to quite yet? Thanks in advance
I wouldn’t transition them immediately, I’d raise the salinity slightly/weekly with each water change.
They need brackish water for their internal organs to work properly... They die in fresh water... Brackish water is the way to go!x
I've been cleaning my puffer and fish...x
My puffer has been in fresh water for over a year...no issues.
How many cups of salt do I need to put in my measuring cup for a 20 gallon ?
what kind of puffer is puff daddy
Very informative. What kind of substrate you recommend for puffers
Sand they like to hunt and hide
Are Pea Puffers brackish?
I’m a new subscriber what you got ?
Oh you’re with catch them all fishing
Pufferfish are honestly cute and bad A at the same time
And smart
MadCity Jack And celebrities (r.i.p the pufferfish that ate a carrot before death row).
Hello.
Just watched your video because I recently acquired a figure 8 and was wondering the how to for making brackish water. I was wondering since mine is already in his fresh water tank if I can convert to brackish while he is in it? Also do they prefer any specific kind of snail? I hear it helps keep their beaks down and I work for a pet store that has "pest snails" all in our aquariums that I can get for free. I don't honestly know anywhere else to get snails small enough.
You could probably add salt water slowly with each water change and buy a salinity reader to measure if it is within appropriate levels
@@voz5585 I have been doing with the marine salt. Water has been great. I use the fluval flex 15 gallon and the system is great for beginners and folks with limited space.
Hey Farley, I had a question I was hoping for someone to answer. If I use a regular filter will it remove the salt from the tank?
No it won’t
Anyone who knows: would this be good water conditions for a diamondback terrapin?
What kind/brand of soil did you use for the tank? I’m looking for kind like this.
I get it from pet smart: Top Fin® Aquatic Sand - White
I'm debating between getting a green spotted puffer or a figure 8
Chris's Aquariums both are great!!! But I love my f8
Is getting water from lakes for these tanks safe? I want to know so I can make my own brackish tank for a figure 8 puffer
NooooooOOOO!
Anything can be in that water. The last thing you want some nasty hitchhiker attacking your scale less Puffer.
The best way is to start with RO water and reef salt.
So question, I have my figure 8 in fresh right now and want to slowly add the salt to the tank... so do I add when I do water changes?
Adding it when you do water changes would be best. Little by little
@@wildworldoffarley thank you so much!
How often do you feed your fresh water puffer fish???
Fish
Like If Farley let's you fill your CIIs early at his pharmacy 😤😤😤😤
What if you don’t have an instant ocean hydrometer???
Brendon Bluu there are other tools but this is the cheapest way to measure the specific gravity
Wild World of Farley I didn’t have one but I got one but thank you for letting me know there are other options!
Please teach nick bingo
So how much brackish salt for 10 gallon tank?
I do 1 cup per 5g of water and achieve roughly 1.006 SG.
Our water is hard to begin with
@@kinglyzard thanks for the knowledge 👽
@@angelfishkeeper3027
YW
How how many inches/cm do mbu puffers grow per month?
airjaff when they are small like mine, they’ll grow about 1 inch a month (with adequate food, tank space, and water changes) until they are close to 12 inches. Then they’ll slow down.
@@wildworldoffarley very quick growing then!
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I like the singing but p.diddy we need a biggie.
segundo
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i want to see your puffers puff up
Lol it’s really bad for them. It stresses them out tremendously. But if you look at the video where I got my MBU puffer... you’ll see him puff up
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