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Today's featured puffer, selected from our PufferPedia, is Canthigaster valentini. Click here to learn more about this puffer.

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Check out these latest articles added to our knowledge-filled Puffer Library:

 Ghost Shrimp - See-Through Inverts for Your Tank, by Robert T. Ricketts

Ghost Shrimp - See-Through Inverts for Your Tank Commonly sold as feeders for predatory fish (puffers love them by the way), these US Gulf Coast natives are worth a closer look for peaceful tanks with small fish or those with non-predatory habits. They have been suggested on the boards as algae eaters. In my experience this [...]

 Euthanasia Options, by Amy J, AKA Myaj

Euthanasia Options *Author’s Note* Some of these choices outlined in this article will contain methods which may offend some readers. They may seem excessively violent or gruesome, something you would never consider using on your fish… but imagine coming home one day and finding one of your beloved pets was sucked into a motor after a [...]

 You & Chlorine or Chloramines, by Robert T. Ricketts

In the United States, most of us get our water for home and aquarium use from our taps. Our taps are supplied with water by a local community, city, or area utility. Those utilities are highly regulated by state and local governments, which are in turn under regulation by the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency of our federal government. The EPA sets the rules under which our local utilities operate. They define what agents are used to process and disinfect our water supply, and how much of the agent can or must be used.

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