The Puffer Forum

Well so far so good, a week gone and the puffer is still fat and happy. It is accepting a variety of frozen foods but seems to preffer cooked frozen prawns above anything else, suprisingly it shows no interest in food in shells to the point where it doesn't even seem to recognise them as food. Somet...

I agree totally but unfortunately at the price they were selling at (just £20) such an attractive fish will easily sell so surely it is better that at least one ends up in the hands of an experienced hobbiest willing to put the effort in to try and keep these fish than leave them? 20 years ago Disc...

Thanks for the welcome. The first thing i did before joining is read the 5 topics bought up by searching for "occelatus", some very interesting reading especially the bit about keeping them at lower than tropical temperatures, which is lucky as i have long been a believer that the standard...

Ok, ive read everything i can find on this site and the rest of the web and know that the general feeling is that this fish cannot be kept long term in captivity so please dont bash me. One of the shops i occasionally visit had 5 of these in stock recently but although i know they are said to be imp...