What are/is Your Dream Puffer[s]?

[Lil' Swimz$]

Ooh.

[LilGreenPuffer]

There are giant-spotted puffers. Is this what you're talking about?

[Lil' Swimz$]

Yup!!

[Corvus]

T. schoutedeni, which in my opinion look somewhat like a cross between a baby mbu and a nigroviridis, would be interesting to study and possibly breed (was done in the past). There are still many marine, never traded species that would be most interesting: I just say pleurospilus. http://www.fishbase.org/Photos/Thumbnai ... p?ID=23126 wicked, eh?

[pufferpuggirl]

T. schoutedeni, which in my opinion look somewhat like a cross between a baby mbu and a nigroviridis, would be interesting to study and possibly breed (was done in the past). There are still many marine, never traded species that would be most interesting: I just say pleurospilus. http://www.fishbase.org/Photos/Thumbnai ... p?ID=23126 wicked, eh?

Hey, that is an awesome looking puffer Corvus, would love to have something like that -- but that's a marine puffer, isn't it?

Well, I can still hope for my T schoutedeni, which I will probably never seen, but I can always hope for!

[Corvus]

Yes, it's marine.

See here for a real T. schoutedeni:
http://www.hippocampus-bildarchiv.de/im ... tedeni.jpg

[pufferpuggirl]

Yes, it's marine.

See here for a real T. schoutedeni:
http://www.hippocampus-bildarchiv.de/im ... tedeni.jpg

Yeah, I've got the Aqualog book and seen photos of it in there, and with seeing this pic of yours, I'm even more resigned to wish for one! I think they are very interesting looking (okay maybe not as much as that marine one you showed) and from what I've read they don't sound very aggressive and anti-social either. But seeing as they aren't traded much, it's probably next to impossible that I will ever have one.

[Lil' Swimz$]

Both those puffers look crazy!

[ladyonyx]

Those are both great looking puffers! I want to have a 200g softy tank with a porcupine puffer someday. That's the goal

[ArunSenior04]

I think I may have seen one of these schoutedeni puffers at Exotic Aquatics (Baltimore, MD). They had four very large GSP-looking puffers housed together. I felt bad for them, because they were all in freshwater, versus the much-needed salt. Three out of the four puffers had very dark bellies. The fourth one had an all-white belly, different spot pattern (instead of round cheetah-esqe spots, more leopard-ish), and slightly different shape. Just passing by, you probably wouldn't notice until you looked at it in closer detail.

It had been on my mind ever since I saw it. I didn't understand how it's belly could be so white vs the others, and then I realized that there were two puffers often confused with being GSPs.

I'll try to go back and get some pictures.

[pufferpuggirl]

I don't think what you seen was schoutedeni puffers because they do not look like GSP's and they only get to be about 3-4 inches long. I think probably what you seen is more likely Ceylon puffers (T fluviatilis). Mine Ceylon has a dark belly alot, but my other one's belly is always white. Go figure!

(PS I am from Maryland, Pasadena to be exact)

[ArunSenior04]

Haha...I think you're right. I went back by there today, and it was gone.

Good to see another MD'er. lol I'm from Odenton.

[pufferpuggirl]

Wow! Odenton, that's where my Uncle lived for years, he's now living in West Virigina. Do you know any people by the name of SEARS?