The Puffer Forum

Hi Myaj Lovely looking fish if its the one in your avatar.I agree with you regarding the appetite of burrfish mine (dougal) is basically an aquatic dustbin eats anything that goes in the tank whether its meant for him or the other fish :shock: The food he eats currently are Marine flake,spirulina fl...

I have been researching the net and i agree with samaki that Chilomycterus antillarum looks the most similar burrfish and has the horns that mine has :twisted: I have nt quite decided on a name for him but my 9 year old daughter alice want to call him "horney dude" not sure that will be ap...

Thanks for the kind words he seems happy and has settled in very well, he is eating well and in addition to what i was first feeding him he is also eating, pre fed ghost shrimp,prawn,and small pieces of cockle

He is about 2 inches (5 cm) appox from nose to tail so he is quite small.He seems in very good health & eating well :D Im feeding him krill,mysis,& artemia at the moment.He is in my 5 foot reef system which contains a flame angel, scarlet hawkfish,regal tang,&pair of common clowns. I use...

After five weeks of deliberation i finally took the plunge and bought what was labelled in the shop as a "spiny boxfish".I believe that he is a type of burrfish maybe "Chilomycterus Antennatus" or "Chilomycterus Schoefi" but the pictures ive looked at on the net are inc...

Hello abc I used the coral gravel because i kept malawi cichlids with him(bad mistake got a taste for them as he aged).The water where i live is as hard as nails anyway. There was so little information regarding this puffer and gave up trying to find info. Then by accident i stumbled accross the puf...

Hello lisalisa, I had had the pustulatus for about two years he was about 6cm long when we got him and about 28cm long when he died.He lived in very good water conditions 40% changes weekly and was living in a 5 foot 400litre tank with coral gravel and was also living in freshwater. I would say he w...

Thank for the advice Mekong, He buries pretty much all of the time i know the gravel looks course but its made up of mostly fine coral sand and the course gravel seems to sit on the top. He dosnt seem to get any injuries and spends most of the time submerged in it apart from the odd swim around and ...

Thank you for the comments, I agree porcupine puffers are great fish this is my first, and have always wanted one. I feel though that my hermits, snails,corals are on borrowed time from some opinions I read. At the moment he pays no attention to them at all but with puffers in my experience things o...

Unfortunatly my fugu died this week stopped eating and died thats about it unfortunatly :cry: . Tried keeping him in brackish conditions but without success so i guess that method is out of the window. I have replaced him with a takifugu niphobles who is pretty cool and very settled in marine condit...

I really dont know The shop i use got him in by mistake they were after Tetraodon Shoutedeni Puffers another rarely imported fw puffer The pustulatus came in and had to have it not really knowing anything about them and unfortunatly nobody else did really :cry: But ive been trying to get another but...

Hi regarding the T pustulatus, I lost him in very strange circumstances he was living with malawi chiclids and three bristle noseplecs and decided to eat a couple of plecs and a malawi chiclid on one of his none feeding days then had problems pooping and died within a couple of days with a very swol...

Thanks LinearChaos,
I think i will leave him in the tank he is in, raise the salinity by .002 every week until he's at 1.018 then transfer him into my FOWLR where hopefully will live a long and happy life.
Regards Chris

Hi linearchaos glad to here of your success long may it continue ive read on fishbase that they are brackish/freshwater going SW isnt a problem because i have two marine tanks plus marine QT This info is interesting because so many people have lost their fugus in marine conditions so i was going to ...

Hi i have a porcupine puffer who leaves shrimps,hermits,starfish,& snails alone he even gets cleaned by the fire shrimp :shock: The only problem ive had is he has eaten a fan worm. How long this will last who knows puffers and upredictability go hand in hand. You can only experiment and be prepa...