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Aww I'm sorry!

Here are some pics of the happy healthy porcupine pufferfish. I'm going to move him to the 125g next weekend when I do the water changes.

He looks amazing!

yunachin wrote:He looks amazing!

Thank you. I was quite amazed at his color afterwards myself. Doing great, comes and greet me to get his mysis shrimp every morning and evening.

Looking good!

Sooner_Reefer wrote:

yunachin wrote:He looks amazing!

Thank you. I was quite amazed at his color afterwards myself. Doing great, comes and greet me to get his mysis shrimp every morning and evening.

That is excellent.

Thanks for the compliments everyone. I'm very proud and glad of such a good recovery. Seems to be doing excellent and I think I hope he is this happy and healthy for many years to come. Now I just got to see how the 125g inhabitants are going to react to him. Well the king of the tank, the sailfin is going into QT so hopefuly the puffer will be accepted nicely.

Sooner_Reefer wrote:Thanks for the compliments everyone. I'm very proud and glad of such a good recovery. Seems to be doing excellent and I think I hope he is this happy and healthy for many years to come. Now I just got to see how the 125g inhabitants are going to react to him. Well the king of the tank, the sailfin is going into QT so hopefuly the puffer will be accepted nicely.

Who are his tankmates?

yunachin wrote:

Sooner_Reefer wrote:Thanks for the compliments everyone. I'm very proud and glad of such a good recovery. Seems to be doing excellent and I think I hope he is this happy and healthy for many years to come. Now I just got to see how the 125g inhabitants are going to react to him. Well the king of the tank, the sailfin is going into QT so hopefuly the puffer will be accepted nicely.

Who are his tankmates?

Well my only concern is the sailfin tang.

But here's my fish:
Porcupine Puffer
Foxface
Sailfin Tang
Juvinille Emperor Angelfish
2xClarkii Clownfish
2xGreen Chromises
Lawnmower Blenny
Coral Beauty Angelfish

Nice variety. I had a problem with my Mata Tang being aggressive towards my Hawaiian Spotted Puffer but it subsided in time. Are your clownfish a breeding pair?

Is that your QT?

My sailfin became very mean towards my old porc. I had to give her away she was so bad to all my fish, sadly my porc died 3 days later.
Good to hear your puffer's got a healthy appetite!
Shelby won't touch anything that's not prawn, bloodworms or peas.

yunachin: I bought them to be a breeding pair but it usualy takes a couple years before they get on to breeding. They aren't realy a pair, but one definetly became the dominant female and the other is a male.

pufferpunk: Yeah that's my 20g high QT

flamesofifreet: We're going to be monitoring my sailfin tang. It used to be aggressive to my juv. emperor angel, but now it leaves it alone. So we'll see. If the tang gets out of control then it's out of there.

My emp broke up all the fights that happened in the tank between my sailfin and others.
I have heard of quite a few people on RC who have the same problem with aggressive sailfins.

flamesofifreet wrote:My emp broke up all the fights that happened in the tank between my sailfin and others.
I have heard of quite a few people on RC who have the same problem with aggressive sailfins.

Yeah they seem to be pretty aggressive. It used to be victim of my purple tang, and no it's gone so the Sailfin rules the tank. Hopefuly that'll change soon.