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- Sun Jun 07, 2015 5:38 am
- Forum: Brackish Puffers
- Topic: Help identify puffer from auction?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2031
Re: Help identify puffer from auction?
Irregular color morph of Takifugu ocellatus. The label was correct. I've seen them sometimes with such or comparable coloration.
- Tue Feb 17, 2015 12:59 pm
- Forum: Freshwater Puffers
- Topic: Male irrubesco: belly wrinkle anyone?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1499
Re: Male irrubesco: belly wrinkle anyone?
I still think these wrinkles are part of the keel or to be more specific: Skin which is smooth when the keel is erected, but a wrinkle when it isn't. But let's see, what your pictures show. I can compare it to pictures of my former male C. irrubescos.
- Tue Feb 03, 2015 3:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Intelligence of Puffers vs. other Fish ?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8351
Re: The Intelligence of Puffers vs. other Fish ?
I would put them in the medium range in terms of fish intelligence. They seem to be smarter than guppies and such, but some other fish species I have kept (mostly other predators) seemed to be smarter than puffers. But puffers are certainly among those, which interact the most with their keepers, wh...
- Thu Jan 01, 2015 5:50 am
- Forum: Brackish Puffers
- Topic: name that puffer (what kind of fish is this?)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3039
Re: name that puffer (what kind of fish is this?)
The puffer in the first post is T. nigroviridis and definitely no T. sabahensis or T. schoutedeni.
- Wed Dec 24, 2014 4:20 pm
- Forum: Freshwater Puffers
- Topic: fw puffer id?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1435
Re: fw puffer id?
Monotrete cochinchinensis aka Fang's puffer in my opinion.
- Sun Dec 14, 2014 6:23 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: puffer ID please
- Replies: 5
- Views: 951
- Tue Nov 11, 2014 1:56 am
- Forum: Hospital
- Topic: help me save red-eye puffer!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3624
Re: help me save red-eye puffer!
1. Took me more than 3 years (!!!) to get my latest C. irrubesco to eat frozen seafood such as clam and mussel parts. Until then it was live food (different larvae of insects, black and blood worms) from large water canisters outside and frozen blood worms. I've never seen it eat a snail, but there ...
- Fri Nov 07, 2014 4:06 am
- Forum: Marine Puffers
- Topic: Puffer ID
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2001
Re: Puffer ID
I think you are doing very wll most of the time.
- Thu Nov 06, 2014 10:13 am
- Forum: Marine Puffers
- Topic: Puffer ID
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2001
Re: Puffer ID
That's not T. niphobles, it's T. obscurus, the quite big relative of T. ocellatus. Up to 40 cm (16 inches) without tail. Can be kept the same way. Is euryhaline (occurs in fresh-brackish and marine water), bit for long term success I'd recommend marine. They are bred (with the help of hormones) in C...
- Thu Sep 25, 2014 1:54 am
- Forum: Brackish Puffers
- Topic: I've never seen a GSP inflate
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4660
Re: I've never seen a GSP inflate
Nothing obvious triggered it. It was like practicing I guess, Yep, it was repeated swallowing.
- Wed Sep 24, 2014 2:41 pm
- Forum: Freshwater Puffers
- Topic: TETRAODON DUBOISI and TETRAODON SCHOUTEDENI
- Replies: 3
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Re: TETRAODON DUBOISI and TETRAODON SCHOUTEDENI
T. duboisi is very rare, but occured maybe 10 years ago. I guess it would cost a few hundred bucks (>200 pounds) per specimen.
The real T. schoutedeni has not been seen a long time, neither in trade nor in science. No price tag therefore.
The real T. schoutedeni has not been seen a long time, neither in trade nor in science. No price tag therefore.
- Wed Sep 24, 2014 2:34 pm
- Forum: Brackish Puffers
- Topic: I've never seen a GSP inflate
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4660
Re: I've never seen a GSP inflate
Here's a nice picture
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=28830
I have seen it a few times on mine, but maybe once in a year or two.
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=28830
I have seen it a few times on mine, but maybe once in a year or two.
- Wed Sep 03, 2014 1:52 pm
- Forum: Freshwater Puffers
- Topic: help me id this puffer
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1402
Re: help me id this puffer
Just saw the video... that's not even a A. hispidus. It's a A. reticularis. But what I said about A. hispidus above is also true for A. reticularis, e.g. in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
- Wed Sep 03, 2014 1:50 pm
- Forum: Freshwater Puffers
- Topic: help me id this puffer
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1402
Re: help me id this puffer
It's true that Arothron hispidus is regularly caught in brackish to freshwater estuaries. But they don't stay there for long, these are just trips for food. Needs to be kept in a marine aquarium.
- Wed Jul 30, 2014 2:00 am
- Forum: Puffer Breeding
- Topic: I have a tiny little baby puff! :D UPDATE! FOUR baby puffs!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6704
Re: I have a tiny little baby puff! :D UPDATE! FOUR baby puf
Also try freshly hatched Artemia. They should be small enough for this species and are easy to raise.