The Puffer Forum

dmond31 wrote:where can i get one of this guys

I'm not too sure where you'd be able to get them commercially, I caught this one myself. It's a very nice fish though, it has a good temprament and is quite active.

Hey guys

Here's another picture of him, doing what he loves to do....



Cheers
SA

Thanks Corvus. :D Know I know who to turn to for puffer ID. I'm surprised that you have a copy of van der Elst's book (I assume). It is very useful, however, sometimes quite miskeading with species ID, where I believe the speimens photographed are dead specimens. And blaasop is a word of Afrikaans o...

Wow! Thanks guys for that speedy reply! :) I've looked at Amblyrhynchotes honckenii in the book I often use as a reference for local fish - it looks very similar to what you've said Corvus, however, according to the book, the dorsal fish of the Blaasop isn't see-through like it is with my fish, and ...

Hey everyone, it's been a while since I last visited. Anyway, I recently aquired this new puffer - it's from the East coast of South Africa, found in shallow marine water (SG 1.020) of roughly 1-2 meters depth. Hopefully the pictures are clear enough for an easy identification. Right now he (she?) i...

Found this picture, don't know if it'll be of much use.

The river where it came from had the salinity of of seawater (1.020) but a pH of just over 7.

Sorry man, not anymore. Was promptly returned to the water because it was stressing hectically in the holding tank. Wouldn't have made it until we got it to a proper tank.

Heya

Need an ID pretty quick to get it into a proper tank ASAP



Thanks,
SA