The Puffer Forum

hi, could not find anithing about food in the text.
but thank you!
martin

hi corvus, interesting! any chance that you send me a copy of that? but still: does it really say that they are breeding it for food? they are just too small and i have never heard of commercial breeding of this species for food! by the way: did you get your payment for our last text? i did some day...

hi corvus,
are you sure that species has been bred in captivity? never heard of that. as it is such a small species i do not think it is one of those that are bread for the japanese food-industry. they usually use much bigger species as takifugu chinensis, t. rubripes and t. obscurus.
martin

hi corvus, thank you, but this is just one more of those shops who has every species on their stocklist no matter if they really sell them or not. if you read it a little longer, you will find out that the species is labelled with 0 euro. in another place of the website it is said that species with ...

he guys,
could anybody please try to find out who the exporteur of these fish is? i am trying to get them here in germany but noone has them on the stocklists...
martin

hi,
there will also be an updated text in the next issue of the magazine amazonas, which is also in german. if you remind me in a month or so, i could send you a copy of it!
martin

hi, If you have alink to your german writing that would be great. My Duetch is pretty bad these days but I may be able to translate it or my Oma could help me. She would enjoy the project actually. My first questinon is how did you get them to spawn originally? Is there anything you do to trigger it...

hi kjb, i have written some things about breeding this species but unfortunately everithing is in german an i do not have the time to translate everything of it. but feel free to ask questins! your water parameters are o.k.. ther is no sexualdimorphism as i know. if you are lucky to find a pair, bre...

you lucky australians! i would give everithing to get those!!! the one behind is a torquigener spec. the ones in the front could be a contusus or a tetractenos (not sure about the species yet and no time to look... but no chelonodon for sure! good luck with them! and if you should travel to germany ...

hi, most of the "modestus" that come into the stores are in fact auriglobus silus. while i have never had problems with my modestus, all the silus have turned more than aggressive with higher ade while they where o.k. as juveniles. at a size of about 10 cm they start killing each other and...

hi marco, Those pustuhakas are a good example for puffers with apparently unclear identification. In my opinion the holotypes (original specimens linked to the name) and first descriptions should be revisited to clarify the possible differences. The discussion so far is more like guessing and statin...

hi,
looks more like a well spotted t. lineatus (no-gambian) to me. to much stripes for a pustulatus.
martin

hi, this picture is not showing a borneensis but a very colourful lorteti. some of the "lorteti"-pics in the ebert-book are actually showing borneensis.
martin

hi corvus, Certainly no. They are from the same family: Tetraodontidae , also called puffers. You mean genera? Kottelat explained in 1999 that naritus actually belongs to the genus Chonerhinos and that those puffers that were considered as Chonerhinos by Roberts in 1982 (among them silus ) should no...

hi, they are looking just the same as juveniles. as adults modestus are some cm bigger and silus are much slimmer. the citation up there is correct. but who could check that on living fish? the silus is much more territorial and such much more aggressive as an adult. as juveniles you can easily keep...