The Puffer Forum

I remembered a year ago, my friend has said about someone breeding a type of pufferfish(unsure of species) in northern part of malaysia/thailand. It was said that this fisherman created a pond to breed this pufferfish This was just word of mouth though, I am unsure of the fact. I did not inquire mor...

This may seem off-topic, but I remembered those days when my family and I know very little when it comes to caring for fish(books were expensive and we don't have internet back then). One day, our red devil got infected with pop eye. So we separated him in a diff tank. We never knew there was medica...

I was looking for some information on other forum and some other sites (some are specific only to fish like cichlid and discus) Some have non-active members/posting, probably because of my timeline (being in Australia) Anyway, my friend in Malaysia who is an expert in fish/aquarium is also knowledge...

Well, those things are quite common in my home country (in any asian country actually).
Fishes are treated badly in pet store (kinda like walmart in US), trapped in a jar for a winning prize.

Oh, thanks for confirming that.
This is one of the article that I found, it is quite out of topic from what we are discussing here but it does mention about puffing reduces lifespan.
Just check it out, its interesting

http://www.kotaku.com.au/games/2008/12/ ... ade-2.html

Hi, I am not an expert when it comes to puffer, but puffing reduces lifespan of a puffer according to some article/book that I read ( I will try to find it).
Can anyone confirm this statement?