The Puffer Forum

Irregular color morph of Takifugu ocellatus. The label was correct. I've seen them sometimes with such or comparable coloration.

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.

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...

The puffer in the first post is T. nigroviridis and definitely no T. sabahensis or T. schoutedeni.

Monotrete cochinchinensis aka Fang's puffer in my opinion.

Yes, several times:

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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 ...

I think you are doing very wll most of the time.

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...

Nothing obvious triggered it. It was like practicing I guess, Yep, it was repeated swallowing.

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.

Here's a nice picture

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I have seen it a few times on mine, but maybe once in a year or two.

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.

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.

Also try freshly hatched Artemia. They should be small enough for this species and are easy to raise.