The Puffer Forum

I believe it is 6", the same as with the Green Spotted Puffers, but Hilly would know better than me.

FISH ROOM PLUS wrote:I know someone sold off one of my Humpback puffers a year ago or so. I do my best to ensure a decent fish, it doesnt always work out that way, but i try

Yup, that would have been me that bought it. Actually he gave it to me, I just had to drive a long way to go get it. He's a love, one of my favorites.

I think they get a BIT bigger than GSP, but not quite as bit as ceylon. My examination of belly color in T. puffers is that it's a metric of puffer mood most of all, so a cheery puffer may stay white bellied until nearly dead, even if not in optimal conditions, and a moody puffer might have dark edges on his belly for nearly no reason at all, even under ideal conditions. So this might be a cheery one. A typical puffer has a dark belly when stressed, and white when happy, but I think it's very individual, like smiling vs frowning in humans, I've known people that smile a lot while in terminal stages of cancer, and who frown all the time for no damn reason, but it's generally safe to assume a smiling person is in a better mood than a frowning one.

A good fish guy grew his past the 9" mark, he just stated as so

This species seem to turn up in shops around the 6" mark, mine has grown a bit over that. Only time will tell what the final size will be.

FISH ROOM PLUS wrote:A good fish guy grew his past the 9" mark, he just stated as so

That would be a monster!

I suppose it is possible that was just a fish that grew longer than average just as some people are taller, but that's still 1" over the average length of a Ceylon. Any chance you know what conditions the fish has been kept in?

Is that including the tail or not?