Chelonodon patoca

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Chelonodon patoca

Post by blanketman »

hello Puffer Forum and the administrators of The PufferPedia.

I think it is about time that Chelonodon patoca (a.k.a. "Milk Spotted Puffer") get included in The PufferPedia. me and my better half bought this fish here in Norway just before christmas. we bought it as a freshwater fish, big mistake, as it turned out that this is a brackish fish. lucky for us, twb, a puffer-man, lives in our region, so he is helping us out by keeping our two Chelonodon patoca with his CPs in a brackish tank. so we had to buy another aquarium - and it's currently cycling as we are waiting to get our two babys home.

this is a very beautiful, social and interesting puffer, so please put it in The PufferPedia :)

images, taken by me (posted on a norwegian forum), feel free to use them (and more will come when they are back in my house:

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lokal links about the subject:
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/vie ... ca#p109763
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/vie ... lit=patoca "Puffer ID?)
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/lib ... -a-puffer/

other usefull (?) links:
http://zoology.lifescience.ntu.edu.tw/a ... 10-1-2.PDF
http://www.meerwasser-lexikon.de/de/26/ ... patoca.htm
www.thepufferforum.com/index.php/Fi ... o_cache=1/

and finally, a movie I made of this lovely creature:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEXi9gnTK-o
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Good to see more Norwegians in here. Then we are at least 5. :D I saw your pics and videos at Akvaforum - nice puffers you have there! You find me as Dyrehagen at AF.
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Thats a pretty awesome looking puffer! I would like to know more!

New Pufferpedia entry please?!
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I saw your picture and vids at Akvaforum too...
Very nice puffer! :)
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Beautiful puffers!
Am I the only one who can only see the top picture?
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i can only see the top picture too. the video is good though.

beautiful puffers! :)
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Great looking puffers!
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Beautiful! I don't think I've ever seen these before.
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Awesome looking puffs there. :)
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i can see the pic. its a beautiful puffer. minimum tank size?
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Those are really cool puffers, I didn't even know they existed!
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pufferfreak wrote:i can see the pic. its a beautiful puffer. minimum tank size?
I really don't know much about this fish, which is why I wonder if someone who knows would care to put the relevant information into The PufferPedia.
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There has been very little info posted up that could be used as relevance. You probably have learned more useful tips by keeping them than what has been posted. Tank size can be guestimated on full size of fish. Aggression to conspecifics in aquaria, what SG and temp has worked is really more a practical experience on the keepers part. SO the info you have is probably is as good as any already on here.
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I guess you've alreday checked out what fishbase has to say about the puffer. Here is the link.
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i am really bad at converting measurements. what is 38cm in inches.
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