RIP Mistah Puff

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RIP Mistah Puff

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I found Mistah Puff (T. cochinchinensis) floating this morning, so I'm obviously a bit upset about him passing. But I thought I'd post a message n let people know that Mistah Puff has gone to the great Mekong River in the sky!
I don't know exactly why he died when he did, but he had seemed a little quiet for a couple of days. Obviously something *was* wrong, but there were no obvious signs of disease or anything. He had found a different place to lurk rather than his usual puff-cave hideout, which was strange but not really conclusive. But as a precaution I'd immediately performed a water change and put a little Melafix in the tank in case he was brewing something, but perhaps it was just a natural death.
When I took him home nearly three years ago he was fully grown so I have no real way of knowing how old he was. He was in a group of several puffers at the lfs, some of which looked a little beaten up (not suprisingly since they are a solitary and aggressive species), so maybe they were even wild caught? I don't know. Either way, Mistah Puff is no more and I now have rather a sad looking empty tank in my room. I keep looking over to it to see him and then I remember he's not there!
RIP Mistah Puff... you were hardcore :(
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Post by Pufferpunk »

So sorry! :cry: Bye Mistah Puff...

Are you gonna do an autopsy?
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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Thankyou :(
No I don't think I'll do an autopsy, I wouldn't cope too well with that I'm afraid! He had gone very pale when I found him... only patches of his skin were the right colour and the rest of him had gone a creamy colour, so he must have died during the night and been gone for a while before I found him this morning.
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Post by puffermama »

:24: Sooo sorry to hear about Mister Puff's demise. You only just changed his tank, didn't you?
Will you be getting another Puffer?
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Thankyou. I don't think I'll get puffers for a while. Mistah Puff never ate snails for whatever reason so I had to give him different sorts of crunchy foods like shellfish. So consequently I never needed a snail breeding tank. I don't want to get another T. cochinchinensis to replace him as it would be really weird to have a Mistah Puff lookalike in there! So that only really leaves snail eating species like dwarf puffers or south americans. I will definately keep puffers again, but maybe when I have more space for a really big tank so that I can get a fahaka or something like that.
I may get a couple of rams and some panda cories or something. Awww that does mean that I'll be a member of a puffer forum without a puffer though :(
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Post by puffermama »

That would be a very stripedy combo! :D Nice!

PS... and about the lack of Puffer, if you buy some plants for the rams/cory tank you may very well find snails and then .... well... who know eh?
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Yeah I thought that something nice and colourful like rams would be fitting inhabitants for his tank, especially since it's already got loads of plants in it and has a cave etc.
I just bought a 'seafood cocktail' from Tesco a couple of days ago for Mistah Puff. The one with king prawns, squid and mussels! My goldfish can have some of the prawns chopped up I think as a treat.
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So sorry to hear about your loss. You can at least take pride in the fact that you provided an excellent environment for him while he was in your care.

Puffer-less members are welcome here too, so I hope that you will stick around and continue to participate in discussions!
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Yep I will stay on the forum :). I've been made a moderator of the 'Other Pets' section a couple of days ago so I have obligations now lol.
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See, we'll do anything to keep our membership levels high. :P
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Sorry for your loss. Maybe see if you can find a miurus or suvattii (another lurking species who don't eat snails, or as much)
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TPF is mostly about puffers, but as you can see by all the threads in non-puff forums, we have lots more to discuss here than just puffers! Thanks for staying!
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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Totally PP!
<80 gal> 2 GSPs & a Ceylon!
<75 gal> 3 Figure 8s & 1 Butterlfy Goby
<75 gal> *Empty*
<55 gal> 3 Gymnothorax polyuranodon (FW eel)
<30 long> Pair of Lorteti's & Irrubesco's, 1 DP, Endlers Livebearers, Clown Pleco, Royal Pleco, 2 Bumblebee Cats
<20 long> 4 Flounders
<4 gal> 2 Sparkling Gouramis & 3 ottos heavily planted

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Post by xautomaticflowersx »

Thanks everyone! I will definately stick around.
Tihsho I thought I might go for something low maintenance for now rather than another puffer, like some little panda corys and maybe a pair of rams or something. Haha... so that there's some movement in my tank besides the gentle sway of plants :). Bless him... Mistah Puff was great, but he wasn't the most interesting creature to watch. If I were to get another puffer I would want to try with a hunter species rather than another lurker.
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My Miurus cruises my tank all the time. Quite active when not wanting to eat. She hunts shrimp actively too.
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