What do your puffers do all day?

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What do your puffers do all day?

Post by BedScien »

Mine has just stopped pacing the sides and is digging around in the sand for little sea snails :)

Just out of curiosity, what do your puffer fish like to do with their cosy tank life?
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If only I knew... Gotta set up a camera to tape them for a few hours without me there lol...

I know they're plotting behind my back...
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^LOL
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Re: What do your puffers do all day?

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Piggy patrols. When he's not patrolling, he likes to hang out in his Pig Cave, or sneak behind it and practise puffing.

He has an excellent internal pufferclock, and bang on 5pm he starts surfing up and down because he thinks he's getting fed. On dinner days he has his supper, which is then followed by Happy Pink Pig whizzing about before going back to the Pig Cave to sleep it off. He likes the lights out then. On non dinner days, he surfs and begs for ages, giving me the stink eye whilst showing his intense displeasure by going a dark grey. He then retires to the Pig Cave and sulks. If he spots me, he will come back out for some more begging and giving the evils. It's very easy to tell what sort of mood he's in.
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Man, he's one tough customer!
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...

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Piggy? He seems to be quite emotional for a fish.
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Lol!
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Stalker the Fangs just stares at us all day from the bottom left corner. At about 8 or 9 I turn off the light and he goes Behind his tree to sleep.

Green spots are super active watching me all day in the kitchen and while I'm cleaning, at bed time they retire to under thier logs.
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purplecandle wrote:Stalker the Fangs just stares at us all day from the bottom left corner. At about 8 or 9 I turn off the light and he goes Behind his tree to sleep.
Methinks he's plotting, too... Trying to memorize your daily routine!!! He must have secret communication with my dps! It's a puffconspiracy! O.O

Edit: he's only pretending to sleep behind the tree!
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Post by Stratters »

EEEEKKK! :shock:

I just found this :vamp: it's a fairly accurate rendition of Pig's mood changes <nurses finger>
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hadla wrote:
purplecandle wrote:Stalker the Fangs just stares at us all day from the bottom left corner. At about 8 or 9 I turn off the light and he goes Behind his tree to sleep.
Methinks he's plotting, too... Trying to memorize your daily routine!!! He must have secret communication with my dps! It's a puffconspiracy! O.O

Edit: he's only pretending to sleep behind the tree!
His tank is 5 feet away from the dinner table, and he creeps us out staring at us. You can tell he considers the table as part of his territory.
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haha great answers. what type of puffer is piggy?
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He's a Hairy Puffer. I've heard all the smutty jokes already. Even the guys in the LFS snurk :shock:
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And yes, they definitely plot. I am extremely grateful for their lack of opposable thumbs. With those they'd be unstoppable
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Stratters wrote:And yes, they definitely plot. I am extremely grateful for their lack of opposable thumbs. With those they'd be unstoppable
:ROFL:

I think my dps also work on perfecting their little "who, me?" expressions!
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