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do you understand? Dogface is a common name and not the species name?? Tell the LFS they should be charging more for him :) He is 24 pounds how fast will he grow? He is 1 inch now! They grow very fast and get very big. Tell you friend to look for somthing better suited to their tank. I have, he is ...

purplecandle wrote:do you understand? Dogface is a common name and not the species name??

Tell the LFS they should be charging more for him

He is 24 pounds how fast will he grow? He is 1 inch now!

Face palm. A lot of arothons are referred to as dogface because they have similar body shape and buck teeth. Look at the puffers on this page -http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/ug.php/v/PufferPedia/Marine/ All of them are arothons, but only one is referred to as a dogface - the arothon nigropunct...

Is there a kind of dogface that has this colouration or design? I see some on youtube but don't no if they are s+s or dogface the owners say dogfaces?

purplecandle wrote:Stars and stripes!

Lfs say iis a dogface with stripes pattern he kinda looks like dogface but kinda don't... So he be 19 inchs not 13?

Pufferpunk wrote:That's a S&S.

So he is no kind of dog face just a straight stars and stripes puffer and will hit 19 inchs??

Load it onto http://www.photobucket.com & then post the [img] link here. http://m1206.photobucket.com/albumview/albums/daffydase/utf-8BUGV0ZXJib3JvdWdoLTIwMTEwMzE3LTAwMTExLmpwZw.jpg.html?pbauth=1_uLEBonVPfaLdh1h3YMYz2fZOMN2bZLOnWqsj8E4Y%2BH6GUMJortr84v3GsaWaPIRTuRwlPgQDFbKMthvLoJWixk%2BOA7661Q5...

The S&S IS also a dogface. Dogface is only the common name for a family of puffers. I still think you don't understand. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Google Images IDed their puffers incorrectly, unlike our Pufferpedia. Best bet would be to take a pic of the puffer you are interested in at ...

The S&S IS also a dogface. Dogface is only the common name for a family of puffers. I still think you don't understand. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Google Images IDed their puffers incorrectly, unlike our Pufferpedia. Best bet would be to take a pic of the puffer you are interested in at ...

Pufferpunk wrote:Thank you.

Just looked on google images and tbh it could be either dogface or s+s as its so small 1inch atm its kinda hard to tell ill tell him to avoid incase it is an s+s as they get SO big!

Pufferpunk wrote:Whatever the Pufferpedia says. I will repeat: There are many species within the Dogface (Arothron) family of puffers.

Ok cheers, ill pass the info on

Pufferpunk wrote:They are completely different species of the same genus family of puffers.

So he isn't a dogface? Looks like one?! Seen them on youtube as dogfaces! So this star striped dogface look alike will be 13 inch or 19 inch max?

That'll work for the cycling. :) They need about 400L as adults. Dogface need 400", how big have you seen um? I see a lot of people saying they get bigger than porks, but pufferpedia says 33cm I'm bad at math is that around 13 inch? That true? Or they get bigger? The one in lfs in black with s...

You should check out our Pufferpedia for some of those answers. Also: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/calc.php Yeah I looked said 33cm I think that equates to around 13 inchs? 350 litres 100 us gallons! So 260 should be fine for a year, was trying to find the growth rate I saw an inch a mo...

Hi how big is your dogface lfs says 13 inch max have you seen them kept them bigger? What is tthe growth rate like? Cheers