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Mac Myers
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Greetings from Palm Harbor Florida, USA

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New Puffer Owner (unplanned) :shock: and Shrimp Keeper. 8)
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Yay!
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Welcome to the group 8) . Btw, How did and what do you mean a new puffer (unplanned) keep? That are afew other shrimp keepers in here too.
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[welcome]
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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Re: Greetings from Palm Harbor Florida, USA

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FADE2BLACK_1973 wrote:Welcome to the group 8) . Btw, How did and what do you mean a new puffer (unplanned) keep? That are afew other shrimp keepers in here too.
I walked into a LFS to trade some Red Claw Macro Shrimp (I hate them) for something else... store credit or whatever right as the owner was scooping 3 skinny, ratty looking Dwarf puffers out of a ten gallon. He was going to use them for marine feeders as they "didn't sell". So I took them for free after a discussion that I enjoyed more than he did.
I don't do pet store rescues and I don't do impulse buys... but these guys were literally seconds away from become Yellow Tang food. I learned my lesson about taking on animals I know nothing about or rewarding pet stores for lousy conditions a LONG time ago. Or maybe not.
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What a total A$$!!! I guess he isn't aware that he could have poisoned the fish he was going to feed them to? Was that the owner?
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Pufferpunk wrote:What a total A$$!!! I guess he isn't aware that he could have poisoned the fish he was going to feed them to? Was that the owner?
Please do not try to get around the word censors :shock:

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:redface: Yes ma'am...
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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Pufferpunk wrote:What a total A$$!!! I guess he isn't aware that he could have poisoned the fish he was going to feed them to? Was that the owner?
110% agree with PP. And they dont know anything about fishes because other then using lil puffers as fish food, yellow tangs dont eat them anyways. How dumb they are. Thanks Mac for being the mature and smart person in that lfs and saved those lil DP's :D .
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Well... in all honesty I don't know what was going to eat them. He was going to put them into a 300 gallon Reef tank full of multiple species of marine animals.
He also has two larger "Freshwater" puffers that he claims are Tetraodon palembangensis but that I think are Figure 8's. He's got them in a 10 gallon tank with some (like 30) White Cloud (?) minnows. I've been doing a lot of research but I have to admit to getting a bit confused. I'm a shrimp guy... I dunno from puffers. :shock:
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Welcome from Jacksonville

That sounds like a shop owner that I would never do business with.
RTR wrote:Fahakas do not have tank mates, they may have swimming food reserves.
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