The Puffer Forum

Im new to the boards and I was just wondering what kind of puffers/puffer tanks you got. I guess I'll start. Currently I have a 125 gallon tank with a dogface who likes to hide in my pirate ship. I have a porcupine who likes to puff randomly for no apparent reason every once in a while and I have a burrfish who I nicknamed retard because all he does is swim back and forth in the corner of my tank until its feeding time. What kind of tanks do you got?

Just some pics

Welcome to TPF. This is a great place to learn, get help, and do that sort of stuff.

How big are your fish and what else do you keep with them? What kind of filtration do you have? How long have you had your fish? More details.

By the way, when the puffers get bigger they will need to be moved to a bigger tank.

I have a hawaiian and valentini toby in a 50g tank with a hippo and achilles tang. I plan on upgrading to a 120g in a few years.

Welcome.
I've got a GSP in a twenty long and will be getting him a bigger tank as soon as I can afford it.

do you have a full tank shot?

hello!


I have a ceylon in a 60G tank, and a baby stars and stripes in a 50G.. who will probably end up in my oscar tank sooner rather than later..


.. although that will be a sad day.

Burrfish struggle to acclimatise with captivity.. chave you got lots of caves, etc for him to play in?

Welcome to the forum.
Do you have a breeding pair of maroons in a tank with a porcupine puffer? How does that work out?

And I have more tanks that I need.

I have 2 Ceylon puffers in a 55 gallon tank with a Knight Goby, and I *just* acquired an Abei Puffer, which is in a 28 gallon bowfront.

Right now I got a wet dry filtration system with a uv steralizer and I'm working on buying a lifereef protein skimmer, probably one that's set up for a 500 gallon tank without over skimming. As for the burr, ya I have a bunch of caves but he seems not to be interested in them. He's pretty healthy though, I watched him at the LFS for about 6 months making sure he was eating well and adapting to captivity, he's just not the smartest cookie in the jar though. And yes those are my pair of maroon clowns that I'm trying to get mate( I breed clowns on the side). They actually do really well in the tank with the puffers. Whether or not they'll mate I dunno, I was just experimenting with them.

I also breed clowns, not to get off topic though, I would be interested in talking about it. If you have a messenger service send me a PM here and we can exchange screen names.

Welcome to the forum!
I have that same pirate ship in my main tank. It was my old dogfaces favorite!

Welcome to the Puffer Forum. I have a valentini in a 20 temporarily until i move, where his 30 or 38 gallon will be waiting for him. I will also be getting a ceylon and putting him in a 40 also!!

Lol, ya my dogface loves that pirate ship. When I bought it, i didnt even think he could fit in it, but everyday he squeezes in it.

One of these days, he's gonna get stuck!

antfony16 wrote:I watched him at the LFS for about 6 months making sure he was eating well and adapting to captivity, he's just not the smartest cookie in the jar though.

Wow, no one bought it for that long. At least you know it will probably do well.

Pufferpunk wrote:One of these days, he's gonna get stuck!

I once had a lemonpeel that got stuck in a thing like that and it died.

Whats a lemonpeel?