The Puffer Forum

Well I have a 7 year old daughter, so all of the fish have names.

Audrey- My fahaka so named because she constantly begging to be fed.

Toby- My white spotted puff

Frick, Frack & Dack- Our 3 SAPs

Smaug- My new Palembang

We also have 4 DPs that Alex has yet to name...

my two fang's: Zeppie and Jaba (zepplin (sp?) blimp and jaba (?) the hut from star wars)

my f8 is poker...cuz it was a gamble when we got him...did not know if he was gonna make it.

a. modestus is chomper...likes to eat all tankmates that is smaller or looks like him.

t. oblongus...moo....he is slowly becoming a fat cow.

js

Five of my 6 DPs - The Borg

The 6th one is a big (big for a DP anyway) male with lots of flourescent metalic blue flecks -- Mr. Grumpy Gills because he's the one who spends the most time chasing the others away from his territory (the base of an Amazon Sword.)

My SAP that died of ich was named "FaTiG Quixote Lord Buzz". FaTiG for "Face to glass" Quixote because he always seemed to be charging something that wasn't there and Lord Buzz because he was like a little bumble bee. Enjoy that great Amazon River in the sky . . . .

My Betta is bright blue: Mr. Elvis Saphire.

My 2 guppies are creatively named: Red & Blue

Spud-T. Miurus
Lucky-T.Biocellatus
Bluey-Big Fat C. Travancorius
Cream Puff-Medium Fat C. Travancorius
Sparkle-Little C. Travancorius

WISH LIST PUFFERS

I want a C. Irrubesco called Dynamo, a D. Holacanthus called Porky and a T. Palembangensis called Sunny

BUT
I HAVE GONE ONE STEP FURTHER
I have named EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THE 1750 (exactly) puffers I have seen since 2003!

I'm one of the oddballs - I don't name my fish.

I don't name my fish either--but my 13-year old daughter sure does! She even tries to name the feeder ghost shrimp when I bring them into the house. I suggest Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner as names for the shrimp, but she never agrees with me.

Nice names for the shrimp, lol.

Like few here I don't name my fish. Never have...well maybe once when I was like 4 or something.

On another topic I wonder if there is a vegitarian puffer out there? (to be like me ) But I highly doubt it. My parents think I'm crazy to give up meat. I hate handling dead shimp etc because I am a true nature fanatic, but hey, when puffers gotta eat they gotta eat. Not like they can tell me "FEED ME VEGGIES!"

If only there were a puffer to eat stupid people in my school, then the world would be a better place:twisted: ...lol, just kidding.

There is a bit on a spectrum on direct veggie intake by puffers, roughly highest in SW, lower in BW, rare in FW. None of them are predominatly herbivores though - they are built as primarily predators of shelled creatures who may be largely filter feeders or scavengers/herbivores. The teeth and gut call for high-protein intake in a hard crust. Veggie diest are not the best path by a wide margin.

3 SAP
Piggy---eats anything and everything. My other 2 are much pickier.
Chopper---named for the way he attacks live food and snails
Big Guy---the largest of the 3 with the exception of belly size

1 dp named Penelope she is roomies with a kuhli named Neesha. I cant help myself , everybody has some kinda cheesy name.

Mine are Poffie - F8
and Moffie - GSP

I have named every puffer I have ever had Zeppelin!

the only other named fish are...
my south american pike characin-spoon(he has a round spot on the end of hi mouth that resembles a spoon)
and my
african brown knife-knife

oh yeah and my doller perch who I call The Delicious Bass!

My GSP is named Nelix because my brother thought he looked alien. ;P

My GSP is named Memo. Thanks to my 2 year old nephew.

My 2 yrs old T. suvatti is named Suvat. It sounds like a rarely used Turkish name Suat. He is in a 160 lt 5* aquarium. Once upon a time, I had showed his photos on the best puffer forum on the world (I forgot the name. What was it? Pufferhome something mm? ).

By the way, it is really very splendid thing to be with puffer funs again.