The Puffer Forum

Wow! I just read this whole post. Glad it all worked out ok for both of you. And kudo's to Denzil for the fast thinking. I would have done the same thing. It's amazing what we do for our puffs. Today we had a new girl start at work. She asked me if my only pet's were cats. Three people all at once said: she has puffer fish too. All I could do was laugh. I guess my fish and my cat's are my babies. I talk about them way more than the hubby. And I have a thousand more pictures of my pet's than the hubby. I love my Annabelle (fahaka)!

edmlfc1 wrote:Wow! I just read this whole post. Glad it all worked out ok for both of you. And kudo's to Denzil for the fast thinking. I would have done the same thing. It's amazing what we do for our puffs. Today we had a new girl start at work. She asked me if my only pet's were cats. Three people all at once said: she has puffer fish too. All I could do was laugh. I guess my fish and my cat's are my babies. I talk about them way more than the hubby. And I have a thousand more pictures of my pet's than the hubby. I love my Annabelle (fahaka)!

LoL +1! Denzil feels kinda bad because I have photobooks all over the house of my dogs and now I am starting a new one on my puffers. I have yet to make and print one with me and Denzil xD

He asks me, "when are you going to make ours?" And in reply, I ask him "when are you going to propose?" LOL. I know he will eventually, but after last Christmas, it's been an ongoing joke between us.

LOL. At least I have photos of the hubby. Only a few but he refuses to pose for me.

LOL, propose/pose?

Haha, when Gage and I started dating (six years ago), we lived 800 miles apart, so whenever we saw each other I took tons and tons of pictures. Now we live 15 miles apart & are engaged, and rarely take pics. I like to pull up old pictures and tell him "remember this? You loved me in this picture!"

So happy to hear Luau is doing well...what a journey!

I never told y'all this because I was so embarrassed...when I got P-Nut I acclimated her by putting her in a pitcher on the floor and dripping her. My husband came into the room after about 20 minutes and accidentally kicked the pitcher over. She flew out and hit the rug. I freaked out, grabbed her up and threw her in the tank. Scared the shut out of me!!! I chewed my husband out about it for days. She is just fine though. My husband stills tromps around the house and doesn't watch where he's walking...lol! Now I pretty much stay in the vicinity when I'm acclimating my new babies!

Or use a bucket--harder to kick over.

seems crazy that he survived! when i got my new GSP's back about a year ago my filter didnt have the bottom part of the suction tube, so it was just a hole sucking water. after the first day of staring at my 2 new GSP's i went to bed happy as could be. When i woke up in the morning there was only 1. i frantically looked all around the tank assuming hed jumped out, than looked in the filter and he was stuck at the first elbow. i turned off the filter and put the elbow in the tank and shook it around gently to get him out. the second he got some room he puffed into a perfect sphere. his mouth was half out of the water kinda thing so i knew he had some air. i burped him (scary). who knows how long hed been in there? 5 hours? 1? 8? He lived for a few days bumping into things i think his body was fine but he had brain damage. anyway id never felt so bad in my life and am very particular on my setups now and havent lost a fish since. until today!!!!!! came home for the weekend and one of my catfish is just missing. no signs of him, as if i have never had him....??? not on the floor, nowhere. i would assume the cat but a few days ago my gf's mom took the cat! wtf! he was 5 inches long too...not a baby. anyway, just sayin, good job on the fish, i am happy you had a better time than i did when not enough knowledge, gained by experience, played a part in keeping puffers as pets (as it often turns out worse).

I've killed 3 puffers by forgetting to put back the siphon strainer...