Favorite Puffer
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RTR
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Re: Favorite Puffer
LOL! Well, there are a lot more of them in SW, so we would hope for more choices. But Burrfish faces are hard to top - living cartoon characters!
Where's the fish? - Neptune
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Clowntje
- Figure 8 Puffer
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Re: Favorite Puffer
Here are a few picks of Kaya and her tank.hadla wrote:do you have any pics of him/her? I'd love to see!!Clowntje wrote:I love our Fahaka
too many puffers to pick from!so I'll go with each type of water =P
dream puffer is a porcupine... favorite fresh is dps cause they got me into puffers and I'd love a big tank with like 30 of them!
brackish is figure 8 cause I'm all obsessed with them right now cause I got Figgy! XD
viewtopic.php?f=56&t=23623&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=15
Will try to make some new ones soon. She had a grow spurt after we got her and another one when we moved her to Germany.
- hadla
- Mbu Puffer
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Re: Favorite Puffer
and now I'm all excited again! XD I hope Figgy lives for a long time! This has to be the one fish that I knew I wanted and did my research off and on for about a year before finally getting one! XDRTR wrote:My personal favorite is the F-8. Those pack everything that defines puffers into a small size that anybody with 2-3 square feet of space can keep as long and perhaps better than they could the average dog. They are highly active and owner-responsive, should live about a decade and a half (but can live longer), and for a specialist fish they are quite undemanding.
Never trust big puffers. The fingers you save may be your own. -RTR
- bertie 83
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Loaches, Clown loaches ,Eels, various shrimp, tangs,wrasses, damsels, chromis - Location (country): Brighton, England
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Re: Favorite Puffer
+1 clowntje on the fahaka, when i got mine had several puffers to choose from. i wanted something big with attitude.....ta da fahaka lol
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- hadla
- Mbu Puffer
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Re: Favorite Puffer
thanks for the link! she is pretty! it always amazes me how big their tails are!Clowntje wrote:Here are a few picks of Kaya and her tank.hadla wrote:do you have any pics of him/her? I'd love to see!!Clowntje wrote:I love our Fahaka
too many puffers to pick from!so I'll go with each type of water =P
dream puffer is a porcupine... favorite fresh is dps cause they got me into puffers and I'd love a big tank with like 30 of them!
brackish is figure 8 cause I'm all obsessed with them right now cause I got Figgy! XD
viewtopic.php?f=56&t=23623&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=15
Will try to make some new ones soon. She had a grow spurt after we got her and another one when we moved her to Germany.
Never trust big puffers. The fingers you save may be your own. -RTR
- Troender
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Re: Favorite Puffer
You're right. But both burrfishes and porcupines are close relatives to puffers.I.Puff.Too wrote:I haven't owned either but for FW I want an mbu and for SW it'd be a porcupine puffer. If i'm not mistaken I don't think that's an actual puffer either, but I could be wrong!
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- Pufferpunk
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Re: Favorite Puffer
What do you think???


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- greenspottedlover
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Re: Favorite Puffer
For me a cool puffer is a long horned boxfish, dog faced puffer or a Mbu. My favorite is Finn though.
- hadla
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Re: Favorite Puffer
that makes me want to take a pic of Figgy at least once a week to see how much he growsWalrus Head wrote:Heres my Fahaka raised from 2" to 9" in less than a year:
Never trust big puffers. The fingers you save may be your own. -RTR
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Black Widow
Re: Favorite Puffer
take a pic of him and enter it in the MAY POTMhadla wrote:that makes me want to take a pic of Figgy at least once a week to see how much he growsWalrus Head wrote:Heres my Fahaka raised from 2" to 9" in less than a year:
- hadla
- Mbu Puffer
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- My Puffers: 2 gsps and a big Stars and stripes
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Re: Favorite Puffer
just sent an entry in of a picture I already had on my laptop... I'm going to wait until next month to enter him so I can get a good picWalrus Head wrote:take a pic of him and enter it in the MAY POTMhadla wrote:that makes me want to take a pic of Figgy at least once a week to see how much he growsWalrus Head wrote:Heres my Fahaka raised from 2" to 9" in less than a year:we need puffers
Never trust big puffers. The fingers you save may be your own. -RTR
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RTR
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Re: Favorite Puffer
At least Walrus Head got the proper and expected growth rate out of his Fahaka. These fish grow fast! Good job!
Where's the fish? - Neptune
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Black Widow
Re: Favorite Puffer
Thx mate, was ashame tho as in the end I had to move him on cos he outgrew the tank I had him in.RTR wrote:At least Walrus Head got the proper and expected growth rate out of his Fahaka. These fish grow fast! Good job!

