What??? Dog Faced puffer brackish?

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What??? Dog Faced puffer brackish?

Post by CarmenH »

Just surfing doing some brackish research and found this...
http://www.algone.com/index.php?option= ... &Itemid=54
I've never heard anyone claim dog faced puffers are anything but marine. If this 100% wrong or do people actually keep them in brackish? (I'm not looking a anything that big, just curious..)
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Re: What??? Dog Faced puffer brackish?

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I would never attempt to keep a dogface puffer in brackish water, and I'd say that information is wrong, but I am not 100% certain.
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Re: What??? Dog Faced puffer brackish?

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Yea All dogface Ive ever seen for sale or in a persons aquarium all were full marine. DOgface thou is a common name used when the seller dont know what it is so they call it a dogface and it may be but a tad different in care so I wouldnt doubt if this happened making the profile messed up too. Soo many sites have bad info of fish keeping.
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Stars and stripes puffer is similar. Pufferpedia says something about being brackish when young. Just though i would add that.
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Re: What??? Dog Faced puffer brackish?

Post by Pufferpunk »

Many SW puffers take an occasional dip into BW but I certainly would never keep one in those conditions. Just a ploy to widen the interest of folks who may not want to go SW.
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