Puffer Seasonality?

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coldmachineUK
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Puffer Seasonality?

Post by coldmachineUK »

Hi,

I know with wild caught catfish (synos in particular) that there is a seasonality to availability. For catfish it's usually September-November from memory. Correct me if I got that wrong though.

I'm assuming there is for puffers too (since there's so few TB available) and wondered if anyone could tell me when this is?
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Post by RTR »

The tropics may be warmish all the time, but they do have pronounced seasons, especially rainy/flood versus relatively dry. Capture will be at the times of year the fish are most accessible.
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Post by Hilly »

I think there does seem to be specific months when some puffers seem more readily available. Last year August September time if I recall correctly the UK market seemed to have a lot of Mbu's for sale. In the last month there seems to be a lot of juvenile F8's popping up.
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