Hi everyone,
i would like to ask if you guys could help confirm identity of my Puffers.
I bought them under their general name, so i am not sure.
After checking the Pufferpedia and a lot of links on the web i would say they are Carinotetraodon Lorteti,
but the blueish color of the males tail looks a little like a borneensis.
Also even one and the same fish can look different on each photo.
Could you have a look?
male:
http://www.directupload.net/file/d/3617 ... 8f_jpg.htm
female:
http://www.directupload.net/file/d/3617 ... h8_jpg.htm
help confirm Puffer ID
- Pufferpunk
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- Gender: Female
- My Puffers: Filbert, the 12" T lineatus
Punkster, the 4" red T miurus
Mongo, the 4" A modestus
2 T biocellatus
C valentini
C coranata
C papuan
Also kept:
lorteti
DPs
suvattii
burrfish
T niphobles - Location (country): USA, Greenville, SC
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Re: help confirm Puffer ID
Those are Lorteti. I hope they are in at least 20g of water with a lot of broken lines of sight. They are VERY aggressive, even to each other. I tried to add 2 males with a female I had. She killed the 1st male right away & after breeding with the 2nd one 3x, she murdered him, too.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
Re: help confirm Puffer ID
Thanks for the Heads up about those little combatives
i have them in a 40g tank which is heavily planted. The male can (and does) spend half of the day without me knowing where he is.
i got them a good week ago and i think they are slowly settling down in their new environment.
the first days they were going up and down the glass which worried me a little, but after reading that most puffer are not bread in captivity but taken from nature i guess thats normal for such a change. now they start to swim through the tank as the DP i have in another tank.
i read about other Puffer (irrubesco, borneensis) that they are night active, can someone confirm that for the Lorteti?
i see them still swimming around when the main light goes off and now i find a lot of my MTS snails, or the empty shells to be precise, on the ground.
those snails survived years with my dwarf puffers i had in this tank before and they only come out at night.
Other inhabitans are only a few Hemigrammus amandae and a group of corydoras which i am willing to move to another tank.
hope it works out between the 2 puffers.
i have them in a 40g tank which is heavily planted. The male can (and does) spend half of the day without me knowing where he is.
i got them a good week ago and i think they are slowly settling down in their new environment.
the first days they were going up and down the glass which worried me a little, but after reading that most puffer are not bread in captivity but taken from nature i guess thats normal for such a change. now they start to swim through the tank as the DP i have in another tank.
i read about other Puffer (irrubesco, borneensis) that they are night active, can someone confirm that for the Lorteti?
i see them still swimming around when the main light goes off and now i find a lot of my MTS snails, or the empty shells to be precise, on the ground.
those snails survived years with my dwarf puffers i had in this tank before and they only come out at night.
Other inhabitans are only a few Hemigrammus amandae and a group of corydoras which i am willing to move to another tank.
hope it works out between the 2 puffers.
- Pufferpunk
- Queen Admin
- Posts: 32775
- Joined: Tue May 31, 2005 11:06 am
- Gender: Female
- My Puffers: Filbert, the 12" T lineatus
Punkster, the 4" red T miurus
Mongo, the 4" A modestus
2 T biocellatus
C valentini
C coranata
C papuan
Also kept:
lorteti
DPs
suvattii
burrfish
T niphobles - Location (country): USA, Greenville, SC
- Location: Chicago
- Contact:
Re: help confirm Puffer ID
Yes, please do move any other tank mates. They will not fare well with these puffers at all.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
Re: help confirm Puffer ID
still well both Puffers and now a little more settled in the tank, more relaxed:
http://i62.tinypic.com/fzcina.jpg
http://i62.tinypic.com/fzcina.jpg