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Just read this about brackish levels in water for topaz puffers what do you think???

http://www.justtropicalfish.com/Green_Pufferfish.html
Dave

Nearly everything on that page is wrong and needs to be disreguarded. They don't eve keep the scientific names and common names strait. I think they get the max size and temperature range right, but only those two things, everything else is either wrong, incomplete, or misleading.

Thats exactly what i was thinking!

Isn't it easy to see how so many people get the wrong ideas about puffers? Between the LFS and information like this circulating, it adds up to a lot of sick fish and upset keepers.

LOL, that's a pic of a F8!

That's the first thing I noticed!

Hi Everyone,
This is my website you are talking about, and how wrong did I get it! I have kept freshwater tropical fish for years, but never Pufferfish, so I don't have personal knowledge of them, and obviously my sources were incorrect. It is quite worrying the amount of mis-information out there, and I've tried really hard to get my facts right, but obviously I got it wrong here. I have changed the page, and any comments would be appreciated:
http://www.justtropicalfish.com/Green_S ... uffer.html
Also, if anyone has a good photo which they would be happy for me to put on the website I would be very grateful.

Thanks for your help

Jackie Robinson

What an amazingly impressive response! Glad to have you - looks MUCH better now, the only thing I'd change is I'd recommend tank size in gallons(~30) rather than inches in length, while both are important, GSP are usually kept single specimen so enough water to dilute the waste is more critical than exact swimming space.

Wow I am impressed with you response. Most people tend to be quite defensive when their "knowledge on puffers" is questioned.

Hopefully with a bit of time here you will get some good info, linking to us is a great idea too. I would like to point you to our article section where there is plenty to learn

http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/library/

Kudos on your response to the criticism, it's very admirable!

Though, we don't have any GSPs, I just wanted to mention if you wanted to do a page on T. fluviatilis (Ceylon/Topaz Puffer, very similar to GSP), Spoot and myself have plenty of pictures we could send you.