Do you suppose my modestus are having some salad on occasion?
Also, a warning, which is probably unnecessary for all but us newbies. Don't put expensive little cherry shrimp in with your mid sized puffers....they apparently make a really dandy snack
Do your puffers do this?
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~reefchik~
- Green Spotted Puffer
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2 modestus in 20gplanted FW tank
1 male irrubesco 20g community planted FW tank
2 F8s 20g planted brackish
Cherry shrimp/snails 10g planted
2 Golden Retrievers
1 African Grey
1 Crazy cat - Location (country): Ohio, USA
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Do your puffers do this?
I'm seeing perfect little round holes in my Amazon swords lately.
Do you suppose my modestus are having some salad on occasion?
Also, a warning, which is probably unnecessary for all but us newbies. Don't put expensive little cherry shrimp in with your mid sized puffers....they apparently make a really dandy snack
Do you suppose my modestus are having some salad on occasion?
Also, a warning, which is probably unnecessary for all but us newbies. Don't put expensive little cherry shrimp in with your mid sized puffers....they apparently make a really dandy snack
~Steph~
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Pufferluv09
- Green Spotted Puffer
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- My Puffers: Porcupine puffer
- Location (country): USA, Oregon
Re: Do your puffers do this?
Yeah my GSPs have done that to the java fern. Perfect round holes in the leaves. 
Pufferluv09 -is- Zyash
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~reefchik~
- Green Spotted Puffer
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2 modestus in 20gplanted FW tank
1 male irrubesco 20g community planted FW tank
2 F8s 20g planted brackish
Cherry shrimp/snails 10g planted
2 Golden Retrievers
1 African Grey
1 Crazy cat - Location (country): Ohio, USA
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Re: Do your puffers do this?
I'm hoping the plant survives it. It's a huge sword with new plantlets coming off two extensions. Oh well...I love salad too, so I can't blame them much
~Steph~
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JoseDepacos
- Green Spotted Puffer
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- My Puffers: Valentini- Ripley
- Location (country): USA
Re: Do your puffers do this?
Lol! Sorry to laugh but check out one of my first posts on the forum.
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22057
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22057
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~reefchik~
- Green Spotted Puffer
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- My Puffers: 1 Marbled Congo 30g X-high FW (fake) mangrove biotope
2 modestus in 20gplanted FW tank
1 male irrubesco 20g community planted FW tank
2 F8s 20g planted brackish
Cherry shrimp/snails 10g planted
2 Golden Retrievers
1 African Grey
1 Crazy cat - Location (country): Ohio, USA
- Location: Ohio, US
- Contact:
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JoseDepacos
- Green Spotted Puffer
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Re: Do your puffers do this?
So in short, yes. This is a common problem. I cant have real plants in with my F8's. Just some java moss. Anything with leaves gets destroyed.
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PolishPuff
- Mbu Puffer
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- My Puffers: ________
Also cared for;
Fahaka------------------- Had to give it away
Auriglobus modestus-----Traded
Auriglobus silus ---------Died during transport.
Figure Eight Puffers -----Sold and or traded
Dwarf Puffers ------------Traded
Congo Puffer ------------Traded
South American Puffers -Traded
Carinotetraodon lorteti --Died under my supervision :( - Location (country): USA-Chicago, IL
- Location: Chicago, IL
Re: Do your puffers do this?
LOL this is my Java Fern.
I think a Fake silk Plants is the best way
I think a Fake silk Plants is the best way
"Lost time is never found again" Benjamin Franklin
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pufferpuggirl
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1 x T Schoutedeni
1 x T Leiurus
1 x T Miurus
Rainbow crab
crayfish - Location (country): Yorkshire, GB
- Location: South Yorkshire, UK
Re: Do your puffers do this?
I noticed when I had my little Fahaka in my favourite planted tank that many of the plants in there ended up with holes on the leaves. I never seen him doing it, but it had to be him. I've since moved him into another tank, and my little Abei is in the planted tank now, but I don't think he's making any holes (not yet anyway). 
And reefchik I learned the hard way in regards to shrimp with puffers. I went out and bought some expensive Bee shrimp, they were so beautiful, and I decided I wanted them in a tank where I could see them better, not stopping to think about the 2 hungry Cutcutia puffers that were in the tank at that time. Well let's just say that not many of my shrimp made it out of that tank. I did rescue a few and moved them, but I felt so stupid afterwards. I had the idea that because my dwarf puffers didn't seem interested in the shrimp that was in with them, that these other puffers might ignore the shrimp additions to their tank, but they VERY interested in them and probably even more so after they ate one or two and realised they tasted good.
And reefchik I learned the hard way in regards to shrimp with puffers. I went out and bought some expensive Bee shrimp, they were so beautiful, and I decided I wanted them in a tank where I could see them better, not stopping to think about the 2 hungry Cutcutia puffers that were in the tank at that time. Well let's just say that not many of my shrimp made it out of that tank. I did rescue a few and moved them, but I felt so stupid afterwards. I had the idea that because my dwarf puffers didn't seem interested in the shrimp that was in with them, that these other puffers might ignore the shrimp additions to their tank, but they VERY interested in them and probably even more so after they ate one or two and realised they tasted good.
"Puffer .... man's best friend?"
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Rusty
- Green Spotted Puffer
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Re: Do your puffers do this?
My modestus loves the occasional bit of algae wafer which has helped somewhat, but he still feels it's his duty to occasionally go for a nibble.
Old fishermen never die, they just smell that way.
Rusty
Rusty
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~reefchik~
- Green Spotted Puffer
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- My Puffers: 1 Marbled Congo 30g X-high FW (fake) mangrove biotope
2 modestus in 20gplanted FW tank
1 male irrubesco 20g community planted FW tank
2 F8s 20g planted brackish
Cherry shrimp/snails 10g planted
2 Golden Retrievers
1 African Grey
1 Crazy cat - Location (country): Ohio, USA
- Location: Ohio, US
- Contact:
Re: Do your puffers do this?
Argggh...Pufferpuggirl! You must have been just sick to lose all those shrimp 
They do teach us new things, don't they?
I'm finding out my modestus will eat darn near anything I toss in their tank. So far, algae wafers, Red Bits (cyclopeeze bits), freeze dried krill, snails, shrimp, bloodworms. Even standard flake food. I want to try mussels soon.
They do teach us new things, don't they?
I'm finding out my modestus will eat darn near anything I toss in their tank. So far, algae wafers, Red Bits (cyclopeeze bits), freeze dried krill, snails, shrimp, bloodworms. Even standard flake food. I want to try mussels soon.
~Steph~
Re: Do your puffers do this?
Nice! My betta is like that thankfully. He gets a bit of almost everything the other fish are eating. Pellets for one meal and some random meat (product) for the other.
It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another. We consider those, when the cerebral structure/intellectual faculties most developed, as highest. A bee doubtless would when the instincts were.
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin