The Puffer Forum

Hello

I am searching for a Congo Puffer and would like to know, if anyone has ever seen any in the UK for sale. Has anyone ever kept any ?

I am looking for Tetraodon schoutedeni, one of the spotted Puffers.

Cheers
Mad

good luck finding one of those, i've never known anyone who's owned one, but maybe someone here knows somebody who's owned one

This species hasn't been available in the aquarium trade in over 30 years.

thats what I thought, until I spotted this website where someone seems to have photographed one in their tank. I don't speak czech, so I can't really work it out...

http://www.aquapage.cz/Ryby.php?hledani=LAT&detail=187

That's a T. nigroviridis.
They are often labelled and sold as T. schoutedeni.
Try a forum search for schoutedeni.
The real schoutedeni can be found in the aqualog puffer book and here:
http://filaman.ifm-geomar.de/Photos/Pic ... at=species
Looks totally different, doesn't it?

It's definitely a green spotted puffer (tetraodon nigroviridis), the most common puffer in the trade.

I did see a congo puffer advertised abotu 8 months ago on AQ but it turned out to be ared spot

anyway good luck finding one! but i think will be almost impossible to get especially in the UK as my lfs is excellent at getting rare species and there struggling getting me a blue ringed octopus + a cross river puffer!

hi flash.dan

i have seen an advert not so long from UK for a blue ringed Octopus sale.

i think i saw it either on praticalfishkeeping.co.uk.

i am sure it is still available with that guy.

not sure abt cross river puffer

Dan

yes i saw that blue ringed octopus aswell £200 for it and with equip only! to be honet that wasnt the worst bit. it was 2 years old....

bad thing there is they live 1-2 years anywy so the guy was just tryign to flog it before it died for a extortionate price. Cerapods dont travel too well anyway. Ive kept them before so have the liscence for them cuttlefish are amazing also. and you dont need a huge tank