Species ID please

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That would be an awesome puffer if you could put some weight on him. I've never seen one around here, wicked cool fish. Let us know if u get him!!!
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flash.dan wrote: well puffer love is really a front... my mbus "love me" i know the real reason why they follow me but i like to think they love me.. appart from the baby who bites me aswell... love bites?!
Around here, those are called "puffer kisses" ;)
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aww hes cute! You should get him and fatten him up :D you know you want tooo.

Ok, i know i shouldnt be urging you to support rubbish fish stores who dont care for their fish
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indie wrote:aww hes cute! You should get him and fatten him up :D you know you want tooo.

Ok, i know i shouldnt be urging you to support rubbish fish stores who dont care for their fish
thats most in the uk then!
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indie wrote:Ok, i know i shouldnt be urging you to support rubbish fish stores who dont care for their fish
Now that I think about it, that maybe their strategy in selling fish. I bought my 2 F8s and Valentini from this store as rescues. They had the F8s not even a 1/2 inch in with almost adult GSPs. Their tails were a bit nipped and they were super skinny. I had to buy them. My Valentini was also very small about an inch, and he was being picked on by adult Tomato Clowns.

The staff are not very knowledgable either, I asked them what SG they had their GSPs in and all they could tell me is that "it was already decided." I got home and tested the water and it was fresh.

However, this store does have a wide variety of fish and reasonable prices...
Multi-tank syndrome
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I missed this one but Linearchaos has a great article about this puffer...

library/puffers-in-focus/arrowhead/
Multi-tank syndrome
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