Author: Jeni Tyrell, AKA Pufferpunk

<img style="float: left;" src="https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v345/Pufferpunk/Bike.jpg" alt="PufferPunk on her Harley" /> <p>It all started when my parents couldn't afford a television, so Mom put me on top of the clean laundry in the basket to watch my Dad's fish. The rest is history! I have been keeping fish for over 27 years now & worked in the industry for about 8.</p> <p>I have had as many as 11 tanks running, ranging from 2g (ghost shrimp gut-loading/snail breeding bowl)-125g (fahaka puffertank). Here is my experience with puffer species, etc:</p> <ul> <li>12" fahaka puffer living in a 125g w/a couple of red-tail & rainbow sharks & 2 very large plecos.</li> <li>2 (6") GSPs a 5" Ceylon. They were in a SW tank w/assorted damselfish, a tomato clown & hermit crabs.</li> <li>5 South American puffers & 1 dwarf puffer living in a 50g w/a frontosa, parrot cichlid & royal pleco.</li> <li>3 F8s living w/knights, bumblebees & a dragon goby.</li> <li>Congo (T. miurus) puffer living in a 15g.</li> <li>10g hex w/a juvenile 2", pignose/arrowhead puffer (T suvattii)</li> <li>20g tank with a 4" T. turgidus.</li> <li>20g w/a 4" A. modestus.</li> <li>A lovely 90g planted tank, w/5 assorted discus, loaches, synodontis, plecos & other oddballs.</li> <li>I have been keeping a 55g reef tank for about 2 years, soon to be upgraded to a 90g & am starting another 50g reef.</li> <li>2 55g river tanks. 1 has assorted toads, treefrogs & African clawed frogs. The other has an dwarf African bullfrog, African sideneck, Asian map & softshell turtle.</li> </ul> <p>(Some of those fish have been re-homed or passed away.)</p> <p>Unfortunately, with all those pets, I recently had to give away all 6 assorted box turtles that had a very nice habitat in the backyard but lived in my basement in a kiddie pool during the winter. I've had some of them for well over 10 years.</p> <p>I own a pufferfish website, The Puffer Forum & am on the Crew of WetWebMedia, in addition to moderating & submitting to countless other forums in the past. I wrote all the puffer fish profiles in the most recent publication of the Encyclopedia of Exotic Tropical Fishes, Published articles on Green Spotted Puffers & Pufferfish Dentistry in Tropical Fish Hobbyist magazine & also in WetWebMedia's online mag, the Conciencious Aquarist, in addition to an article on Dragon Gobies there. </p> <p>I am a scuba diver & underwater photographer. I ride my own 1982 custom Shovelhead Harley-Davidson & am an avid tattoo collector. My Jack Russell Terrier (Kalvin the Krazydog) rides on the back. </p>