The Puffer Forum

I'm so sorry to hear that you lost one of your puffers. That is a bummer. I hope you will have the opportunity to get some more. They are wonderful fish and once they get used to you, I have found them very interactive (though occasionally you do get some shy ones who rarely peep their heads out). I...

Please don't flame me about this, but with irrubesco's, it really depends on the temperament of the individual irrubesco. Right now, I have 2 males/4males in a 29g heavily planted tank (~5g per puffer). They are doing just great. No fights. A perfect equilibrium for over a month now. But what I had ...

I concur with the resident expert: they look like 2 female irrubescos. And Woland is also correct: generally irrubescos don't get along unless they have alot of space. BUT there are always exceptions :wink: , and so far, things are very peaceful between 1 male/2 females in a planted 29g tank. I thin...

You mean of my current 29g? or all my tanks?

Well, I'll try to get out my digital camera and take a pic of the irrubesco tank over the weekend.

abc

I got another 29g tank set up. Not as many plants. More of the anacharis and the frogbit stuff but cozy. So far, the 10g per irrubesco ratio seems to be working just fine. I would not go beyond that though

just wanted to announce: I've order 3 more of these guys (actually, 3 more females)

rare shot of all 3 irrubescos (1M/2F) in the 29g together:

one pot-bellied male irrubesco:

if a want a good link with comparative pics, see the following on irrubescos:

http://www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/Fishindx/puf-irrub.htm

a 50% water change once a week is the best routine. that's what I do and the puffers I have seem to do just fine (no disease, no stress, and happy!)

cheers to your efforts in getting these wonderful fish! abc

Don't feel bad, dudette :wink: ; I took no offense at all. Just wanted to let you know that the irrubescos are available if you want to buy them. as for aquariumfish.net, just to share an anecdote, one year ago I went through the same thing you did. sent emails, made phone calls, because I wanted to...

by the way, is it OK to have a puffer that fat? I was already afraid of lettin the puffers overfeed themselves, but if that is a healthy girth, then I can feed my puffers more...

Nice pic of the Lorteti! Since you posted a pic, I'll repost the pic of the irrubesco with the red tail and you can see the clear comparison:

well, I'm only trying to help here, so don't get me wrong, but if you look at my pics of irrubescos, they are irrubescos. Male Lorteti do NOT have red tails. The red-eye puffers I received are irrubescos, not lorteti's. The website labeled them wrong. I clearly have the irrubescos but I'm not going ...

Dude, you should not call http://www.aquariumfish.net; they don't like direct phone calls. You have to use their website which says the irrubescos are still in stock (the true red-eyes = the irrubescos): Follow the link: http://www.aquariumfish.net/catalog_pages/puffer_fish/puffer_fish.htm#top2 Just...