POTM September 2010 - Winner Announced
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Would you like to enter our Puffer of the Month photo competition?
Each month's winner is not only featured on our home page for the following month, but is automatically entered into our annual Puffer of the Year competition, with a grand prize of a $25 gift certificate to The Puffer Store!
Full rules and entry instructions can be found here: viewtopic.php?f=21&t=3455
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Milly - Fangs Puffer - Location (country): CANADA
- Location: Pitt Meadows, BC
POTM September 2010 - Winner Announced
Hello everyone! It's that time of month again!
Some very,very cute pics this month!! (Honestly though, when isn't there cute pics??? haha)
May the best puffer win!
Vote Now!
#1
- Species: I don't know the species or age of this puffer
- Description: I took the picture at the Maui Aquarium in the last week of June. He/she was about the size of my head, the biggest puffer I have ever seen!
- Size: He/shelooked to be about 12 to 18 inches long. If anyone knows the species, please post so I'll know! I want to know what kind of puffer it is! #2
- Name: "Father Fara"
- Species: Tetraodon lineatus
- Age: 6 months
- Size: 18 cm/7 inches
- Brief description: Just spotted a shrimp, getting ready to attack #3
-Species: T. Lineatus
-Name: Vicious
-Age: approx 5 mo.
-Size: 4 inches, without tail.
- Description: Vicious Cheesin' it up over in the rocks #4
-Species: Green Spotted Puffer
-Name: Chomper
-Age: 3 years
-Size: 2.75 inches
-Brief Description: Chomper chompin' at a ghost shrimp! #5
-Species: GSP
-Name: Mookie
-Size: 1.5"
-Smiling for the camera! #6
-GSP named Rush
-Species: Tetraodon nigroviridis
-Age: Approx 2 to 2 1/2 years
-Size: 5 inches
-Description:
-Rush looking for food but little did he know i only had a camera he is in full marine #7
My Dwarf puffer "Lily":
- Species: Carinotetraodon travancoricus
- Age: less than 1 year
- Size: 1 inch #8
Species- Tetraodon nigroviridis
Name- Toki
Age- > 6 months in my care
Size- 2 1/2 inches
Description- "I believe I can fly" #9
- Species: Green Spotted Puffer (Tetraodon nigroviridis)
- Name of Puffer: George
- Age : Uknown (owned him for 1 week)
- Size: about 1 inch
- Brief description -Photo was taken in my home in Georges 28 gallon tank during his feeding of frozen white shrimp. He has no tankmates and is a new addition to my family! #10
A. Puffer pictures:
- Species- Fahaka
- Name of Puffer- Bloat
- Age (if known)- 4 months(at the time)
- Size- 4in(at the time)
- Brief description - FEED ME
Some very,very cute pics this month!! (Honestly though, when isn't there cute pics??? haha)
May the best puffer win!
Vote Now!
#1
- Species: I don't know the species or age of this puffer
- Description: I took the picture at the Maui Aquarium in the last week of June. He/she was about the size of my head, the biggest puffer I have ever seen!
- Size: He/shelooked to be about 12 to 18 inches long. If anyone knows the species, please post so I'll know! I want to know what kind of puffer it is! #2
- Name: "Father Fara"
- Species: Tetraodon lineatus
- Age: 6 months
- Size: 18 cm/7 inches
- Brief description: Just spotted a shrimp, getting ready to attack #3
-Species: T. Lineatus
-Name: Vicious
-Age: approx 5 mo.
-Size: 4 inches, without tail.
- Description: Vicious Cheesin' it up over in the rocks #4
-Species: Green Spotted Puffer
-Name: Chomper
-Age: 3 years
-Size: 2.75 inches
-Brief Description: Chomper chompin' at a ghost shrimp! #5
-Species: GSP
-Name: Mookie
-Size: 1.5"
-Smiling for the camera! #6
-GSP named Rush
-Species: Tetraodon nigroviridis
-Age: Approx 2 to 2 1/2 years
-Size: 5 inches
-Description:
-Rush looking for food but little did he know i only had a camera he is in full marine #7
My Dwarf puffer "Lily":
- Species: Carinotetraodon travancoricus
- Age: less than 1 year
- Size: 1 inch #8
Species- Tetraodon nigroviridis
Name- Toki
Age- > 6 months in my care
Size- 2 1/2 inches
Description- "I believe I can fly" #9
- Species: Green Spotted Puffer (Tetraodon nigroviridis)
- Name of Puffer: George
- Age : Uknown (owned him for 1 week)
- Size: about 1 inch
- Brief description -Photo was taken in my home in Georges 28 gallon tank during his feeding of frozen white shrimp. He has no tankmates and is a new addition to my family! #10
A. Puffer pictures:
- Species- Fahaka
- Name of Puffer- Bloat
- Age (if known)- 4 months(at the time)
- Size- 4in(at the time)
- Brief description - FEED ME
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- Pufferpunk
- Queen Admin
- Posts: 32764
- Joined: Tue May 31, 2005 11:06 am
- Gender: Female
- My Puffers: Filbert, the 12" T lineatus
Punkster, the 4" red T miurus
Mongo, the 4" A modestus
2 T biocellatus
C valentini
C coranata
C papuan
Also kept:
lorteti
DPs
suvattii
burrfish
T niphobles - Location (country): USA, Greenville, SC
- Location: Chicago
- Contact:
Re: POTM September 2010 - Vote Now!!!!!
#1 is called a Diodon hystrix.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
- jdak
- Green Spotted Puffer
- Posts: 408
- Joined: Sun Feb 21, 2010 2:25 pm
- Gender: Male
- My Puffers: Stars & stripes
- Location (country): USA
Re: POTM September 2010 - Vote Now!!!!!
Awesome pic quality # 3 & 7. Are we not cropping pics anymore? I don't remember being able to click on the image for a full view?
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- Former Staff Member
- Posts: 1045
- Joined: Fri Nov 06, 2009 5:30 pm
- Gender: Female
- My Puffers: Fahaka - Nala
Congo - Baloo
Arrowhead - Yzma
R.I.P
Kaleeko - Mbu Puffer
Milly - Fangs Puffer - Location (country): CANADA
- Location: Pitt Meadows, BC
Re: POTM September 2010 - Vote Now!!!!!
It may have been how I added them to the thread. I was multi-tasking last night (doing too many things, as usual haha) and had some problems with the pictures not coming up properly a few times.
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- Green Spotted Puffer
- Posts: 258
- Joined: Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:51 pm
- Location (country): New York
Re: POTM September 2010 - Vote Now!!!!!
First pic's a Diodon Hystrix. They get very large. My favorite pic in all of these was chomper
- jdak
- Green Spotted Puffer
- Posts: 408
- Joined: Sun Feb 21, 2010 2:25 pm
- Gender: Male
- My Puffers: Stars & stripes
- Location (country): USA
Re: POTM September 2010 - Vote Now!!!!!
Anyways, i like it. I prefer however you did it:)
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- Green Spotted Puffer
- Posts: 289
- Joined: Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:35 am
- Gender: Male
- My Puffers: .
1 Fahaka
1 Ceylon
1 Valentini
1 Dwarf
1 Mantis Shrimp
R.I.P. 2 F8's - Location (country): Holland
- Location: Holland
- Contact:
Re: POTM September 2010 - Vote Now!!!!!
OMG I want photo 2 in full rez (1920x1200) as a wallpaper!! GIEV!
Master Yoda the Fahaka and Manny the Mantis Shrimp! - R.I.P R2 & 3PO (F8), Luke (dwarf), Snips (Ceylon) and Obi 1-3 (Valentini)
- sparks42
- Figure 8 Puffer
- Posts: 230
- Joined: Mon May 07, 2007 12:45 pm
- My Puffers: Green Spotted Puffer named Chomper!
- Location: London Ontario Canada
Re: POTM September 2010 - Vote Now!!!!!
aw thanks I thought it was very funny
- hadla
- Mbu Puffer
- Posts: 1626
- Joined: Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:33 pm
- Gender: Female
- My Puffers: 2 gsps and a big Stars and stripes
- Location (country): California
- Location: Sacramento, CA
- Contact:
Re: POTM September 2010 - Vote Now!!!!!
am i not seeing something in the second pic that everyone else is seeing?
Never trust big puffers. The fingers you save may be your own. -RTR
- xrayjeeper83
- Mbu Puffer
- Posts: 4167
- Joined: Thu May 06, 2010 9:31 pm
- Gender: Male
- My Puffers: Fahaka named Bloat
Abei named Huey
GSP named Bacon - Location (country): USA
- Location: Orange Park, FL
Re: POTM September 2010 - Vote Now!!!!!
Its just a neat pic of a fahaka, nothing special just a cool pic of just a fahaka
RTR wrote:Fahakas do not have tank mates, they may have swimming food reserves.
- mairdan13
- Dwarf Puffer
- Posts: 83
- Joined: Wed Sep 22, 2010 1:57 pm
- My Puffers: Four F8's
- Location (country): wales, united kingdom
- Location: Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, United Kingdom
Re: POTM September 2010 - Vote Now!!!!!
one clear winner for my money... Stunning shot, bt we'll wait for the votes to be counted I guess
smoke me a kipper, i'll be back for breakfast...
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- Former Staff Member
- Posts: 1045
- Joined: Fri Nov 06, 2009 5:30 pm
- Gender: Female
- My Puffers: Fahaka - Nala
Congo - Baloo
Arrowhead - Yzma
R.I.P
Kaleeko - Mbu Puffer
Milly - Fangs Puffer - Location (country): CANADA
- Location: Pitt Meadows, BC
Re: POTM September 2010 - Vote Now!!!!!
Andddddddddddddd we have a winner!!
Congrats to Johanskis and his picture of a Fahaka Puffer
Congrats to Johanskis and his picture of a Fahaka Puffer
- Pufferpunk
- Queen Admin
- Posts: 32764
- Joined: Tue May 31, 2005 11:06 am
- Gender: Female
- My Puffers: Filbert, the 12" T lineatus
Punkster, the 4" red T miurus
Mongo, the 4" A modestus
2 T biocellatus
C valentini
C coranata
C papuan
Also kept:
lorteti
DPs
suvattii
burrfish
T niphobles - Location (country): USA, Greenville, SC
- Location: Chicago
- Contact:
Re: POTM September 2010 - Vote Now!!!!!
Which # is that?
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"