The Puffer Forum

Your puffer is awesome, chopper, especially the coloring (the whitish body with brown stripes make him a tiger alrite )

So thats how the puffers trim their teeth..quite different from the way I imagine before. Thanks.

Thx mate :D Now I understand better the complex world of puffer dentistry :wink: Regarding the fins, I believe the puffer already got the marks when I bought him/her from the LFS. Believe me, now this guy is the new boss in my aquarium - staying put at the very front and centre of the tank, waiting ...

Please forgive me if I'm missing something totally obvious here but if cracking of the shells not necessary, the flesh on shells such as clams is quite easy to peel off. If i feed the clams to the puffer, it does not take much effort on the teeth to tear off the flesh from the shell. How would this ...

Hi mate, when i was trying to get my puffer off of bloodworm and onto shell on food, i chopped up some garlic really finely and opened the shells and covered the flesh with the garlic, covered it in clingfilm in a bowl and left it for a couple of hours in the fridge, job done, he munched his little...

I pried open the shell and feed the flesh inside to the fish and he loves it but he just not buying those shell-on baits (thawed). I'm quite sure the LFS in my area does not have the garlic flavouring stuff, which I read from another thread. Here is the photo of my puffer btw: http://i44.photobucket...

Thanks for the answers :D My puffer is doing fine now, readily eating the pellets. He seems to be able to hold his own against the goldfish now. Balance of power finally :) I'm going to try get some shell-on food tomorrow and see if the puffer digs them :P Regarding the puffer identity, there are tw...

Regarding the identity of the puffer, I probably going to capture a photo of the guy and upload it here. I would prefer the modestus as its size is more suitable for my home. Right now, the fish is in a 20gallon or so tank. The puffer kept to himself under the filtration/bubble area, occasionally sw...

Hi guys, I'm new here - just registered myself after getting my puffer :D. I'm not sure how to distinguish between the two puffers I named but that is not my major concern at the moment. The problem: I introduced the 2-inch puffer into a cycled tank containing a few tetras and a 2in goldfish. The pr...