New Puffer

[garrysmith]

Hi All,

After a weekend of surching for the best puffer i finaly found him, a tiny Topaz puffer, he's about 20cm. I chose him as there were about 20 in a tank at the LFS and he was attacking and nipping all the rest and swimming round like he owned the tank.

As soon as i let him free in the tank he had a good swim round and follows me like i have known him for years, loves his food, gave him some bolld worm and half a prawn although i removed most of the prawn as he was getting so fat i thought he would pop.

Until he's a bit bigger should i stick to the worm/prawn or start giving him things in a shell. He's fresh water too

[J-P]

20cm? hardly tiny. That sounds like a full grown Ceylon

ug.php/v/PufferPedia/Brackish/T_Fluviatilis/

[garrysmith]

sorry i meant 20mm lol, I have been told they will not grow over 6 inch?

[bigfatfish]

Size dependant on conditions etc, but upto 8".
Definitely need to be feeding him snails or molluscs of some kind from day one.
& we await pics!

[garrysmith]

i did start a small snail tank with some rams horns to start feeding him on but brought a apple snail who has started eating them, are there any snails the apple snail wont eat which are easy to breed

[Pufferpunk]

Congrats on your new puffer! If you read that link to the PP, he definitely isn't FW. Moving this to the BW forum.