The Puffer Forum

My 2 fellows looked exactly like the common lil juvies all GSPs resemble & then grew ito their color patterns. Both bought at 2" from the same tank. There really isn't much difference between the SG you are keeping them in now & SW. A skimmer & LR would work in your SG too. How lon...

Here is a pic of the adults I kept in SW, who would get dark bellies while feeding: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v345/Pufferpunk/Pufferpics/Small_GSPs.jpg Really? They changed their bellies brown/black when eating ? I have 2 huge ones like this but i can't figure out how to make them happiest....

marksrush wrote:Are you sure the ones with larger dots aren't F8s?

I am 110% sure these are no F-8 Puffs. I do have some F-8s but the fish I am talking about are def. not F-8 or Ceylon. Though you are kind of right... in a sense. I have never seen my F-8's belly change black but I do believe the Ceylons can.

I agree that there is likely more than 2 (I believe around 3) fish we refer to as Tetraodon nigroviridis. Ebert (aqualog puffer book) also noted wide differences in terms of need of salt depending on origin. However, I would like to know which SG you are talking about. What is the light brackish? O...

It sounds to me like you have the nearly freshwater ones like the two I have. They can't change their belly color to black, but they should be able to lighten their spots (grey them out) and lighten/darken the green on their back. I'm guessing its spots are larger and more spaced out as opposed to m...

I need help. lol, what else is new, right ? I are now officially confuzzled and I think we should review the info we post about Green Spotted Puffers. I'm sure most of you know, I have quite a few GSPs. Way back in the day I was totally convinced that there were 2 kinds of GSP. Ok, I admit, maybe th...

Idea Thief !!!

Lol, j/k - but seriously let me know how yours goes, as I am looking into doing something similar

Although mine will be customly built by me - not pre-installed.

-UMB

my puffers have learned to recognize the spoon i use to feed them and will chase it from the bowl (i set it in front of their tank) all the way to the top of the tank i dont know why but that made me laugh so hard! i think if they could have salivated they would have! Yea my Giant GSP's and my Chel...

No need to apologize, I probably just did not get what you meant (I'm not a native speaker as you may have noticed). I would not buy these scientific papers sold online, the prices are ridiculously high like 40$ for 10 pages. Libraries can typically order/loan books from other libraries for a small...

Do you mean "Tigger" Pods ?

http://oceanhomesetc.com/products/Tigge ... 50-72.html

Sarcasm? They had yellow spots at the time they were collected and do simply not look like the ones later named C. patoca, the ones you bought as patoca and the ones almost always imported as C. pactoca. Visit a library get the first decription look at the illustration and read the description. Muc...

Really, you have to look at the originals from the first descriptions e.g. Hamilton etc. These are nothing like those internet pictures. And the ones from the first descriptions are the ones that count. The original C. patoca have yellow spots, no white ones. Yes Corvus - you are absolutely right. ...

It seems the Chelonodon species do a lot of swimming through the different salinities, huh? Ya I have never seen this kind but I believe I read that Chelonodon's (Patoca) can be either Gray or brown with spots. None of mine look like yours (color-wise, but the body shape is similar, not identical) ...

Either my google is broken, or I'm not sifting through enough pics. Every search I do, on any of the three, brings up a lot of photos that look exactly alike (but not the same photo, heh). Then is bring up other fish that have nothing to do with my search. Like hispidus. That dog follows me everywh...

Thanks for the links/advice. The puffer in the photo's spots look like a giraffe-ish design, mine are more spotty. Also, through looking through MANY more photos today, I want to ask about Turgidus as well. When I very first brought the first one home that is what I thought I had, but then I ruled ...