STAFF BIOS!
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 4:07 pm
Pufferpunk, aka Jeni Tyrell 7/5/06
It all started when my parents couldn't afford a television, so Mom put me on top of the clean laundry in the basket to watch my Dad's fish. The rest is history! I have been keeping fish for over 32 years now & worked in the retail industry for 8.
I have had as many as 11 tanks running, ranging from 2g (ghost shrimp gut-loading/snail breeding bowl)-125g (fahaka puffertank).
Here is my experience with puffer species, etc:
-12" fahaka puffer living in a 125g w/a couple of red-tail & rainbow sharks & 2 very large plecos.
-2 (6") GSPs a 5" Ceylon. They were in a SW tank w/assorted damselfish, a tomato clown & hermit crabs.
-5 South American puffers & 1 dwarf puffer living in a 50g w/a frontosa, parrot cichlid & royal pleco.
-3 F8s living w/knights, bumblebees & a dragon goby.
-Congo (T. miurus) puffer living in a 15g.
-10g hex w/a juvenile 2", pignose/arrowhead puffer (T suvattii).
-20g tank with a 4" T. turgidus.
-20g w/a 4" A. modestus.
-A lovely 90g planted tank, w/5 assorted discus, loaches, synodontis, plecos & other oddballs.
-I have been keeping a 55g reef tank for about 2 years, soon to be upgraded to a 90g & am starting another 50g reef. There are 2 55g river tanks. 1 has assorted toads, treefrogs & African clawed frogs.
The other has an dwarf African bullfrog, African sideneck, Asian map & softshell turtle.
-Unfortunately, with all those pets, I recently had to give away all 6 assorted box turtles that had a very nice habitat in the backyard but lived in my basement in a kiddie pool during the winter. I've had some of them for well over 10 years.
(Some of those fish have been re-homed or passed away.)
I own a pufferfish website, The Puffer Forum & have served on the Crew of WetWebMedia, in addition to moderating & submitting to countless other forums in the past. I wrote the puffer fish profiles in the most recent publication of the Encyclopedia of Exotic Tropical Fishes, published articles on Green Spotted Puffers & Pufferfish Dentistry in Tropical Fish Hobbyist magazine & also in WetWebMedia's online magazine, the Conciencious Aquarist, in addition to an article on Dragon Gobies. I am a scuba diver & underwater photographer. I ride my own 1982 custom Shovelhead Harley-Davidson & am an avid tattoo collector. My Jack Russell Terrier (Kalvin the Krrrrrrazydog) rides on the back.
It all started when my parents couldn't afford a television, so Mom put me on top of the clean laundry in the basket to watch my Dad's fish. The rest is history! I have been keeping fish for over 32 years now & worked in the retail industry for 8.
I have had as many as 11 tanks running, ranging from 2g (ghost shrimp gut-loading/snail breeding bowl)-125g (fahaka puffertank).
Here is my experience with puffer species, etc:
-12" fahaka puffer living in a 125g w/a couple of red-tail & rainbow sharks & 2 very large plecos.
-2 (6") GSPs a 5" Ceylon. They were in a SW tank w/assorted damselfish, a tomato clown & hermit crabs.
-5 South American puffers & 1 dwarf puffer living in a 50g w/a frontosa, parrot cichlid & royal pleco.
-3 F8s living w/knights, bumblebees & a dragon goby.
-Congo (T. miurus) puffer living in a 15g.
-10g hex w/a juvenile 2", pignose/arrowhead puffer (T suvattii).
-20g tank with a 4" T. turgidus.
-20g w/a 4" A. modestus.
-A lovely 90g planted tank, w/5 assorted discus, loaches, synodontis, plecos & other oddballs.
-I have been keeping a 55g reef tank for about 2 years, soon to be upgraded to a 90g & am starting another 50g reef. There are 2 55g river tanks. 1 has assorted toads, treefrogs & African clawed frogs.
The other has an dwarf African bullfrog, African sideneck, Asian map & softshell turtle.
-Unfortunately, with all those pets, I recently had to give away all 6 assorted box turtles that had a very nice habitat in the backyard but lived in my basement in a kiddie pool during the winter. I've had some of them for well over 10 years.
(Some of those fish have been re-homed or passed away.)
I own a pufferfish website, The Puffer Forum & have served on the Crew of WetWebMedia, in addition to moderating & submitting to countless other forums in the past. I wrote the puffer fish profiles in the most recent publication of the Encyclopedia of Exotic Tropical Fishes, published articles on Green Spotted Puffers & Pufferfish Dentistry in Tropical Fish Hobbyist magazine & also in WetWebMedia's online magazine, the Conciencious Aquarist, in addition to an article on Dragon Gobies. I am a scuba diver & underwater photographer. I ride my own 1982 custom Shovelhead Harley-Davidson & am an avid tattoo collector. My Jack Russell Terrier (Kalvin the Krrrrrrazydog) rides on the back.