The Puffer Forum

hi,
why didn't you get them out yet? when will you do that? as soon as they hatch, they are lost, in my opinion...

martin

hi, Any way, i was also wondering, is there any way to tell weather or not the eggs are fertile? i only ask coz i think i may have saw something wriggle around in one or two of the egg sacks today, but can't be 100% sure either since i could just be getting too excited and starting to see things :da...

hi, Martin, its lucky you i read this reply of yours, since i was this close (<------>) to trying and get the eggs out and put them into a hatchery that looked almost identical to that!!! so just a quick question, what makes these bad as a hatchery? is it the design or something else? these hatcheri...

hi,

puffertt77 wrote: Why don't you get a baby box that floats at the top of the tank and put them in there. I cannot see why that wouldn't work

what is ab baby box that floats? something like this?

if yes: do never use this for puffer-larvae!
martin

hi, Thanks again for all the advice every one, and yeah, i guess i might try and remove some of the eggs with a siphon tube, but just gotta be extremely careful since they seem kinda "stuck" to the driftwood? Any how, just curious does any one know how long they take to hatch roughly, so i...

hi, m.palembangensis are usually not so good guardeners. they will usually eat the eggs after some hours or a day or two. therefore you should remove them to another tank as soon as you can. if you do not have anything else, buy one of those some-liter-plastic tanks and hang it into the main tank so...

hi, this species has, as i know never been bred in captivitiy therefore i doubt that. the juvenile fish in the film do not behave like tipical pufferfish-fry as they are swimming so fast. the last picture does also not look like puffer fry, but it is hard to tell. try a better quality picture! here ...

hi, Thank you Martin, for your reply. How big are yours now? How long have you had them? How big were they when you got them? Have you checked the SG of the water, if so what is it (1.001 -1.002)? @1: they have nearly not grown since then: 4 cm , i would guess. seems that they do not grow bigger tha...

hi, i still keep that species for a while now. i keep them in freshwater with some salt in it (about 10 liters of seawater in 240 l freshwater brutto). they are still doing very fine. they finnip a little but not as much as other puffer species. 240 l are fine for those three. they did not bite each...

hi, i have kept some of those species for a long time. as for a. modestus: it always be kept with others (but is very rare to find in the shops). auriglobus silus always was fine as juveniles but unfortunately use to kill each other as adults. always had only one int the tank in the end. also they a...

hi,
looks like a t.hamiltony to me.
if it is one, it needs sand to bury in. it usually lives in schools.
could you please try to make better pictures?
martin

hi,

krandall wrote:Are there any other possible species that are wider bodied than the Auriglobus that might be found in that area?

not with green color.
check this one: http://fishbase.org/Country/CountryChec ... csub_code=
martin

hi, and I saw no reference to them occuring in southern Thailand (on the Penninsula). I don't think there is much is any chance that this was an introduced fish, based on the locality. auriglobus modetus for example is found all over thailand and even south of sout thailand in malaysia: http://fishb...

hi,
t. nigroviridis should not live there. it's too high and therefore too far away from the sea, where it spawns.
how about the auriglobus-species?
martin

hi,
yes, the genus of arothron belongs to the family of puffers.
picture one and two and the picture posted by me are all the same species: picture one and my picture show very small juveniles, picture two showes an adult fish.
martin