The Puffer Forum

Cute! What kind of puffer is under all the sand?

I have to share a non puffer sleeping fish. Have anyone seen a mandarinfish sleeping? They are disgusting! That beautiful fish looks like it's rotting! Luckily I had been warned before I saw it the first time, or I would have panicked totally. They look so dead!

rotfl! i gotta save that one, only the eye is visible!

i wanna see the pic of a mandarinfish sleeping. theyre usually so pretty

hadla wrote:i wanna see the pic of a mandarinfish sleeping. theyre usually so pretty

I don't think that is doable. They hide pretty well at night (at least mine do), and I came across my female almost by accident. I have never found the male at night. I have no idea where he sleeps. They turn almost white, that whitish kind of color you find on fish that has been dead for a little while. And they press themselves so tightly agains the rock (or whatever they sleep on), so they are a lot more flat than usual, again giving the impression of a dead fish that has started to decompose.

oh ok, i can go by the mental pic

Troender he's a Fahaka,

This is Hapi

wow, how big is he?

HGI wrote:Troender he's a Fahaka,

That wasn't easy to see under all that sand. He is a handsome guy!

From nose to tip of tale he's roughly around 6"... about 1.5 years old now, had him since he was about .5"