Rate my 55 gallon green spotted puffer fish aquarium

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Naer

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Your bonsai pots went in without the bonsai :colbert:
Oh, ya, I had a few outdoor only bonsais that i tried to keep indoors. Of course they died, but the pots make great hides for the aquatic livestock.
 

Naer

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Do you mind i make an offtopic and shameless plug of my new piano video?

 

bbhaag

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Have you tried live lava rock and live sand. My college roommate was able to keep the water pristine with lots of live lava rock and sand. And with only running one cannister filter.

It seemed like he hardly had too maintain it. And the water was always crystal clear
Oh yeah I had live rock and live sand at the recommended pounds/gallon. Also had the expensive protein skimmer located in a 20gal refugium that was loaded with live cheeto and other sea critters.
I spent a lot of time over at reefcentral just hanging out and learning. Don't get be wrong my reef tank looked beautiful but the amount of work required to keep it up just burned me out after 6 years.

Maybe your roommate had a fish only tank? Those are a lot less maintenance than a reef tank. When I stepped it up to keeping different types of corals that's when it got.....um....a lot more time consuming haha and I just didn't want to deal with it anymore.
 

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Oh yeah I had live rock and live sand at the recommended pounds/gallon. Also had the expensive protein skimmer located in a 20gal refugium that was loaded with live cheeto and other sea critters.
I spent a lot of time over at reefcentral just hanging out and learning. Don't get be wrong my reef tank looked beautiful but the amount of work required to keep it up just burned me out after 6 years.

Maybe your roommate had a fish only tank? Those are a lot less maintenance than a reef tank. When I stepped it up to keeping different types of corals that's when it got.....um....a lot more time consuming haha and I just didn't want to deal with it anymore.

Yeah, it was fish only. Didn't realize there was reef tank difficulty level.
 

Naer

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Don't let your roommate throw the fish down the garbage chute.
I made that shit up, that never happened. Never had a rodent. I stole pics of guinea pig online and passed it off as my own
 

Naer

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Oh yeah I had live rock and live sand at the recommended pounds/gallon. Also had the expensive protein skimmer located in a 20gal refugium that was loaded with live cheeto and other sea critters.
I spent a lot of time over at reefcentral just hanging out and learning. Don't get be wrong my reef tank looked beautiful but the amount of work required to keep it up just burned me out after 6 years.

Maybe your roommate had a fish only tank? Those are a lot less maintenance than a reef tank. When I stepped it up to keeping different types of corals that's when it got.....um....a lot more time consuming haha and I just didn't want to deal with it anymore.

Damn, being a monk means, i have lots of disposable time, Maybe I should get into reefs in the future? It can't be back braking work given I hypothetically have the right tools right?. Just time consuming i guess..


And expensive i bet, but over a time period, it's affordable, given I think I'm gonna live a long life


Anway, just gonna stick with brakish for now

If you can tell from the titile, I'm shooting for a brakish water tank now

Gonna focus on that
 
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Naer

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Collecting welfare <> rich

disclaimer: This applies to me, everyone's different

Depends who you ask, relatively it can be considered rich on a long term scale to work input ratio

Remember when they said time is money. I think that a applies here

I have lots of time to do my own thing

Working a conventional job is like paying for gems in a mobile F2P game

Getting monk bucks is just playing and waiting for progress to happen

It's alll subjective preference, not saying either or is definitive rich

Less choice in life is sometimes better for happiness, and getting monk bucks limits that choice

Excess fund acquirement from working a conventional jobs could be said to have way too many variables to maintain

happiness. The complexity will get you down cause it lacks simplicity
 
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Naer

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bumping cause i received my juvenile green spotted puffer in the mail

healthy it seems too

no clue of the gender

I named it Gudyaer

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Naer

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I already pre practiced water changing before i got this fish. Tank has also been pre cycled

This was hard decision not to get 2 puffers. I read on a puffer forum that 1 puffer is optimal for my setup when the puffer gets bigger. And puffers are highly aggressive, do ok alone, there's a chance 2 might not get along in the space
 

AdamK47

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Nice thread bump.

Edit: The spammer post was deleted.

I'm sure by now that poor puffer fish has been introduced to the garbage chute.
 
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