The Puffer Forum

At some point, it appears a yellow jacket got into my room, and ended up in the water with my ex's F8, Puffy. He ate it's head, ate the stinger, and sucked all of the guts out of the abdomen, including the poison gland part. So, far, no strange reaction at all on his part. Is he immune or something?

What an experience. I know I would have panicked if I saw that happen. How is he doing?

Looks like the F8 won this battle.

He's still fine, as far as I can tell... crazy fish.

From my understanding, if puffers take in poison, they simply store it in their own poison sac for future "use". I mean, if they were to eat some incredibly fatal poison, they'd likely die, but mild poisons like those from bees is probably the equivalent of spicy food.

I have thrown spiders in my tanks for the puffers before. I HATE spiders but they enjoy them.