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strike2 · Post by **strike2** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:39 pm

Fugi or Fugu puffer? same as a dwarf puffer, and also a pignose puffer...are these freshwater? The lady said they were also dwarf puffers? ANyone who know please comment so I don't waste precious time and gas.

Boxermom · Post by **Boxermom** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:41 pm

Fugu puffers (takifugu) are saltwater. Pignose (suvatti, arrowhead) are freshwater. They are most definitely NOT dwarf puffers. Check the Pufferpedia and you'll see they get hella bigger than DPs, who get no larger than 1.5 inches.

Post by **Hilly** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:43 pm

Fugu Puffer could be a number of puffers, there not the same as dwarf puffers there is only one dwarf puffer. The pignose is most likely an arrowhead puffer (t. suvvatti) they are freshwater and need a 30g tank for one.

Woland · Post by **Woland** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:50 pm

Actually there are two kinds of Dwarf Puffers.
Carinotetraodon travancoricus and Carinotetraodon imitator.

strike2 · Post by **strike2** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:51 pm

What about a peacock puffer?

Phaedrus · Post by **Phaedrus** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:52 pm

Neither of which are close to takifugu or suvatti

Boxermom · Post by **Boxermom** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:53 pm

Woland wrote:Actually there are two kinds of Dwarf Puffers.
Carinotetraodon travancoricus and Carinotetraodon imitator.

There is quite a lot of debate about that. I believe even Dr. Ebert isn't entirely sure if they are separate species or just variants of the same species. Regardless, they are almost impossible to tell the difference so for all intents and purposes, there's just one DP. :p

strike2 · Post by **strike2** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:55 pm

peacock puffer?

Boxermom · Post by **Boxermom** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:57 pm

Can she give you actual scientific names? Some of these could be anything. Not sure what exactly you are looking for but nothing stays as small as the DP. Everything needs a much bigger tank.

Google tells me peacock puffer is sometimes used as a common name for a Takifugu ocellatus. Definitely not a freshwater fish.

Post by **Pufferpunk** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:43 pm

Peacock puffer, Takifugu ocellatus-even the most expert pufferkeepers have extreme difficulty keeping alive more than a few months in captivity.

strike2 · Post by **strike2** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:18 pm

It was the takifugu...they had them in FW w/ fig. 8's/

Boxermom · Post by **Boxermom** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:21 pm

Definitely not long for this world then.

strike2 · Post by **strike2** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:31 pm

Well that was the least of my worries, they had the biggest mbu puffer I have EVER seen...seriously it was the size of small dog. It could not even turn around I felt so bad for it...but I dont have the 1000+ gallon tank it needed nor the 2,200 bucks it costs for the fish. It looked so sad big red eyes.

xtc · Post by **xtc** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:34 pm

I didn't like what I read about Fugu...I don't wanna bring in a new fish that the family is going to get attached too- and watch him die (as I have happens to most in captivity). So I think we're looking at the Figure 8 or the GSP.

What part of Texas are you in?

strike2 · Post by **strike2** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:38 pm

xtc wrote:I didn't like what I read about Fugu...I don't wanna bring in a new fish that the family is going to get attached too- and watch him die (as I have happens to most in captivity). So I think we're looking at the Figure 8 or the GSP.

What part of Texas are you in?

I live in Houston, and I have a GSP and love it to death.

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