55 gallon puffer tank

Stocking:

• Five baby Figure-eight puffers (Tetraodon biocellatus) kept at 1.015 SG (being slowly lowered to 1.005)

Filtration:

• Fluval 304 canister with surface skimmer and Eheim Aquaball powerhead. 

Substrate:

• Carib-sea Aragonite sand.

Lighting:

• Two 15w LifeGlo2 bulbs.
  

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• About a dozen Platties, 2 Amano shrimp, and innumerable Ram's Horn and Common Pond snails.
  

Plants:

• Anubias barteri var. nana,
• Microsorum pteropus (Java fern),  
• Hydrocotyle verticillata, 
• Cryptocoryne wendtii "green", 
• Microsorum pteropus 'Windeløv', 
• Crinum Thaianum, 
• Cladophora aegagropila (Marimo balls), 
• Hygrophila of some sort on the right side.

Filtration:

• Filtration consists of a Whisper 60 HOB filter with 2 foam blocks for mechanical filtration, Fluval 205 canister with surface skimmer for biological and water polishing. Bottom basket of filter floss, middle basket of bio-max, and top basket bio-max and a bag of Purigen.

Substrate:

• Substrate is a mixture of Seachem Fluorite, Hagen geosystem shale gravel, and some large diameter natural gravel ~2" deep.
  

Lighting:

• Lighting consists of 3 light strips using T8 15w PowerGlo, FloraGlo, and LifeGlo2 bulbs with home-made ghetto tinfoil reflectors, for a total of ~1.5wpg.

Fertilizer:

• Ferts used are Seachem Flourish Complete, Flourish Excel, and Flourish Iron.