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Posted: **Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:28 am**

http://forums.waterwolves.com/index.php ... ntry818397

Posted: **Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:45 am**

So ugly its cute....

Posted: **Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:13 pm**

talk about SEVERE algae issues!

Posted: **Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:25 pm**

Wow, that's quite an unusual fish... It's beautiful!

I'm trying to imagine what's evolutionarily beneficial about that mutation... Perhaps it's a riverine lurker-predator? The protrusions for added traction for sitting still in strong currents?

Posted: **Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:29 pm**

Hey, lucky guess!

"Found mainly in rocky habitats including rapids of the Mekong mainstream and its larger tributaries"
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/Species ... m?id=50300

Posted: **Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:23 pm**

It might act as camouflage as well. I think he's so cute he's cute.
Pami.

Posted: **Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:38 pm**

Pamela wrote:It might act as camouflage as well. I think he's so cute he's cute.
Pami.

Ay, good call.

I'm fascinated by cryptic markings... T. palembangensis and C. irrubesco are among the finest--they're the only puffs currently on my wish list.

Posted: **Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:53 pm**

So black

Most of T.baileyi sell to Janpan
I've saw T.baileyi only 2 times in Taiwan
It's very expensive

http://www.u2u.idv.tw/stone/htm/puffer/ ... aileyi.htm

Some Hairy Puffer's pics at Japan's page
http://www.remix-net.co.jp/Nettaigyo/ph ... ileyi2.JPG
http://www.flatbase.net/aqua/bbs_image/ ... 204349.jpg
http://www15.ocn.ne.jp/~izuyan/kefugu.JPG
http://www.pdnettaigyo.co.jp/photos/sale12/CIMG3043.gif
http://www.pdnettaigyo.co.jp/photos/sale12/CIMG3046.gif

Posted: **Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:16 pm**

It is very good to have you back, Sean.
You got so much valuable information & pictures from your part of the world.

The Pufferforum will not be complete until we got auto-translations from & to Chinese and Japanese.

How about it SG?
Next week?

Posted: **Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:10 pm**

Altavistaworks fairly well for rough translation.

Posted: **Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:46 pm**

Ohhhhhhâ€¦ I've always wanted to see a live one. Only a couple of dead specimen pics in Ebert's book.

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:03 pm**

Well, seems I will see a live specimen tomorrow...

Just received a mail from the largest LFS in Norway.
It came in today!

Did not mention the price though...

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:12 pm**

Ya thinking of getting it Woland? Hope it is in good health if ya do.

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:31 pm**

Tihsho wrote:Ya thinking of getting it Woland? Hope it is in good health if ya do.

Well, if hell freezes over during the night I probably wont buy it...

The guy who owns this LFS is married to a Phillipina.
They run their own fresh/marine import out of the east.
He is outrageously expensive, but all fishes offered for sale are in excellent condition.

Man, has this been the summer for me...
Firstly T. abei and then T. baileyi.
But where will it live? *sighs*

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2005 6:10 pm**

Woland wrote:
Tihsho wrote:Ya thinking of getting it Woland? Hope it is in good health if ya do.
Well, if hell freezes over during the night I probably wont buy it...

The guy who owns this LFS is married to a Phillipina.
They run their own fresh/marine import out of the east.
He is outrageously expensive, but all fishes offered for sale are in excellent condition.

Man, has this been the summer for me...
Firstly T. abei and then T. baileyi.
But where will it live? *sighs*

Phillipina? You mean Phillipino?

And lucky you, your getting all the rarer puffs on that side off the world. If only you can figure out how to successfully breed them and them become an exporting business

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