The Puffer Forum

Wow! OK. Thanks everyone. I misunderstood some of the posts I read previously. No more feeding frozen, frozen stuff. I'll buy my puff some cockle in shell like this and thaw it before I feed: http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/Prod_Display.cfm?pcatid=9044&N=2004 6120 Jager, LMK when you find ...

Tell me more. I thought the idea was to give them something hard to eat, replicating the shells of snails and rock surrounding hard corals.

I'm really interested in your opinion.

PuffPunk, Thanks for your concern. Whoh! lockjaw is a scary thought. Yes, this little guy gets a wide variety of food. His diet includes some suggestions from Jager's posts including frozen cubes of Mysis, Brine (yes, not very nutritious, but a treat), crab meat, Silversides, Cod, any snails that es...

Hey LC, thanks for your reply. There are no sexual dimorphic characteristics with this species...only the puffers know which sex they are. I only wish they could talk! LOL This species has not been bred in captivity so as of yet there is no definitive, documented age for sexual maturity. Just give i...

Hi everyone. Hope you all had a nice Christmas. Any way to tell the sex of my puff? It's 7 inches now, and was 4 inches four months ago. I'm not even sure how old that makes it? Four questions: 1. How old do you think it is? 2. Is it possible to tell the sex? 3. When will it be sexually mature? 4. H...

I've been very impressed with the number of people in this forum that are HTH!

HTH?

Tihsho, how'd you know I had Alzheimer's? lol You just keep reminding me. One of these days I'll get it.

Good luck, Tommy. Hope everything works out for you. Should be an exciting tank. I'd like to see it at feeding time. Watch out for your fingers.

they do not generally close their eyes... Only time I saw my puffers close their eyes was when one bumped into some rock trying to fit himself into a spot his "jaba the hutt" physique didn't really allow going after some mysis... Nice to know. I only saw mine close his eyes when he yawned...

Do you have any room for furniture in your house? My goodness that's quite a few. Sounds like a happy family.

Ever see you puffers close their eyes? Or hear them vocalize? Just read that they can blink and vocalize on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arothron

Your opinions?

Yes, a Fahaka is freshwater...your pic looks a bit like my fahaka! lisalisa, I saw some picts of a Fahaka on the net. Yea, from my avatar they look similar. Freshwater puffers sound like a lot of fun. Wish I had known more about freshwater puffers before I started my salt tank this time around. I w...

Ok, picts posted on web at http://photos.yahoo.com/audman2010 The pictures are poor quality. The only digital camera I have is in my Palm Zire 72, but it shows Baby's stripes, not spots. That's what you couldn't see from just blowing up my avatar. He wouldn't give me a good profile and then hold sti...

Yea! You found him! Hail to the great Tan and Jager!

Arothron reticularis for sure. I'm setting up some pictures now...

Jager, I looked up your suggestion as well (Arothron mappa). Definitely not mine. The mappa's face is longer. Keep tryin'.