On the dutch puffer forum we have a member with two puffers. Because of the difference in growth, we started to doubt if both are GSP's.
One stays much smaller and has a brown belly now and then. We're thinking it might be a weird looking Fluviatilis. Other option is that the puffer is being bullied en doesn't grow as fast and has the brown belly because of stress.
They both look like GSP to me. Perhaps the smaller one has a low grade internal parasite infection stunting his growth.
No matter how magnificent your successes or devastating your failures, the worlds' approximately 5 billion impoverished people could not possibly care less.
Shakespeare does that now and again, but I couldn't say there is any trigger for it.
No matter how magnificent your successes or devastating your failures, the worlds' approximately 5 billion impoverished people could not possibly care less.
I think it is just another micro-pigmentation issue. Some puffers turn black/gray...some turn brown. I think that the same factors cause this color change, like mood or stress.
Shakespeare turns brown bellied for apparently no reason, but can also get a black belly when stressed.
No matter how magnificent your successes or devastating your failures, the worlds' approximately 5 billion impoverished people could not possibly care less.
wouldn't it be awesome if it had something to do with a mating season?
Job 12:7-10. But ask the animals, and they will teach you; or birds of the air
and they will tell you; or speak to the earth and it will teach you; or let the fish
of the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the
lord has done this. In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all
mankind.
My Puffers: Puffers I have kept: T lineatus T miurus A modestus T biocellatus C valentini C coranata C papuan C lorteti DPs suvattii burrfish T niphobles
Without knowing the exact history/parameters, etc, it would be hard to tell. Could have been stunted from previous treatment--poor housing, feeding, etc.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
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