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Re: Favorite Puffer
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 2:19 pm
by RTR
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!
Re: Favorite Puffer
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 3:49 pm
by Clowntje
hadla wrote:Clowntje wrote:I love our Fahaka
do you have any pics of him/her? I'd love to see!!
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
Here are a few picks of Kaya and her tank.
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.
Re: Favorite Puffer
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 3:52 pm
by hadla
RTR 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.
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! XD
Re: Favorite Puffer
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 3:55 pm
by bertie 83
+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
Re: Favorite Puffer
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 4:07 pm
by hadla
Clowntje wrote:hadla wrote:Clowntje wrote:I love our Fahaka
do you have any pics of him/her? I'd love to see!!
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
Here are a few picks of Kaya and her tank.
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.
thanks for the link! she is pretty! it always amazes me how big their tails are!
Re: Favorite Puffer
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 4:36 pm
by Troender
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!
You're right. But both burrfishes and porcupines are close relatives to puffers.
Re: Favorite Puffer
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 6:37 pm
by Pufferpunk
What do you think???
Re: Favorite Puffer
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 8:37 pm
by greenspottedlover
For me a cool puffer is a long horned boxfish, dog faced puffer or a Mbu. My favorite is Finn though.
Re: Favorite Puffer
Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 7:05 am
by Black Widow
Heres my Fahaka raised from 2" to 9" in less than a year:
Re: Favorite Puffer
Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 8:34 am
by hadla
Walrus Head wrote:Heres my Fahaka raised from 2" to 9" in less than a year:
that makes me want to take a pic of Figgy at least once a week to see how much he grows
Re: Favorite Puffer
Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 8:40 am
by Black Widow
hadla wrote:Walrus Head wrote:Heres my Fahaka raised from 2" to 9" in less than a year:
that makes me want to take a pic of Figgy at least once a week to see how much he grows
take a pic of him and enter it in the MAY POTM
we need puffers
Re: Favorite Puffer
Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 9:00 am
by hadla
Walrus Head wrote:hadla wrote:Walrus Head wrote:Heres my Fahaka raised from 2" to 9" in less than a year:
that makes me want to take a pic of Figgy at least once a week to see how much he grows
take a pic of him and enter it in the MAY POTM
we need puffers
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 pic
Re: Favorite Puffer
Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 9:09 am
by RTR
At least Walrus Head got the proper and expected growth rate out of his Fahaka. These fish grow fast! Good job!
Re: Favorite Puffer
Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 10:15 am
by Black Widow
RTR wrote:At least Walrus Head got the proper and expected growth rate out of his Fahaka. These fish grow fast! Good job!
Thx mate, was ashame tho as in the end I had to move him on cos he outgrew the tank I had him in.
