That is one awesome looking puffer!!! I want one toooo!! Did you have to order him? Good luck with him!
Oh, btw, my puffers did that all the time as well!
Golden puffer
- yunachin
- Former Staff Member
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- Gender: Female
- My Puffers: 1x A. Meleagris (Golden)
2x Tetraodon nigroviridis
1x Tetraodon lineatus
1x A. hispidus
2x Takifugu Ocellatus
9x Tetraodon biocellatus
1x Canthigaster solandri
1x Diodon Holocanthus
2x A. nigropunctatus
1x Tetraodon miurus
1x Irrubesco - Location (country): USA
- Location: SC
Re: Golden puffer
When I got mine I actually wanted the spotted fins on him, I think it gives character but I grew to love him in all of his yellow-ness. They are great puffers to have...will eat you out of house and home though.Recty wrote:To be honest, I was a little bummed when I saw him, I wanted a purely golden puffer and he definitely has some other color to him.yunachin wrote:Bless his heart he has freckles.
He can come to my house anytime and play with my puffers.
After a couple minutes of looking at him, I started liking it more and more. My wife said the same thing you did basically when she first saw him.
"Does he have freckles?"
Anyway, I like him a lot now and it's only been a day.
E.Ridgeway
Re: Golden puffer
Yep, I got him off Diver's Den, the LFS here never gets expensive fish.dab335 wrote:That is one awesome looking puffer!!! I want one toooo!! Did you have to order him? Good luck with him!
Oh, btw, my puffers did that all the time as well!
- edmlfc1
- Mbu Puffer
- Posts: 2011
- Joined: Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:03 pm
- My Puffers: Elvis (Stars & Stripes) R.I.P. 9/11/11
125G:Fahaka (Annabelle) - Location (country): U.S.A.
- Location: Texas
Re: Golden puffer
He is absolutely beatuiful. You should enter the second picture in the potm contest. That's a great shot of him. 
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MMaddox
- Dwarf Puffer
- Posts: 68
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- My Puffers: Our puffers:
Yellow A. mappa
B&W A. mappa
Yellow A. stellatus
T. Mbu
Mystery snail breeding tank for puffer food! - Location (country): Texas, USA
Re: Golden puffer
Every Arothron spp. puffer I've owned has bit the glass, at some time or another - usually when annoyed (aka being in a new QT!). My mappa has a hissy fit and bites the glass every time I feed him and then don't give him more!
Re: Golden puffer
Yeah, I've had mine almost a week now. He basically chews on the glass when he wants to be fed, otherwise he just calmly swims around. I feel bad for him being crammed in a 29g QT but oh well, he will thank me in the long run!
Re: Golden puffer
Just finally got some updated pictures of the system he is going into.
Here is a full tank shot. The tank has nothing in it at the moment but hermit crabs, snails and two cleaner shrimp. Also a pulsing hand coral and some green star polyps. Pretty much everything will be puffer food eventually
And then here is an updated picture of the sump, I got some PMs asking about what it looks like currently as the old ones I posted were from 4 or 5 months ago.

Here is a full tank shot. The tank has nothing in it at the moment but hermit crabs, snails and two cleaner shrimp. Also a pulsing hand coral and some green star polyps. Pretty much everything will be puffer food eventually
And then here is an updated picture of the sump, I got some PMs asking about what it looks like currently as the old ones I posted were from 4 or 5 months ago.

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DRRT
- Green Spotted Puffer
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- Joined: Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:12 pm
- Gender: Female
- My Puffers: none cuz they eat coral, so i like chase wild ones
- Location (country): USA
- Location: Honolulu, HI
Re: Golden puffer
very nice. how big is that trash can there?
i'm busy thinking of ways to remember what i was going to say
Re: Golden puffer
That is a 20g trashcan, it holds my water for my auto topoff.
As far as actual size goes, I'm not 100% sure, just about 24" wide at the top and about 28" tall.
For reference, the stand is 36" tall and 74" wide. I'm glad I built it as big as I did, because I'm out of room
As far as actual size goes, I'm not 100% sure, just about 24" wide at the top and about 28" tall.
For reference, the stand is 36" tall and 74" wide. I'm glad I built it as big as I did, because I'm out of room