The Puffer Forum

my lfs is selling 1 cream globe puffer for £34 about 4" long and they said it will get 8" long and is a fresh water puffer,thats all they could tell me so i did not buy it there and then as i wanted to no more about it first.
plz any 1 no anything about them would be a big help.

Hmmm never heard of that before. Got any pictures of it? It might just be an alternative name which is not used very often.

ive been looking at puffers and it looks quite like the bronze puffer but a bit deeper,if it is then its a full grown 1 at about 4 an a half inch.
its defently got a label on it saying cream globe puffer (rare), thats what it says on its label.
i can't find anything about this kind off fish anywere so i dont really no what it is.
i cant get a picture of it yet but if any 1 knows anything of a cream globe puffer or if they are even real,that would be a big help.
cheers

I have never heard of this fish before. I have heard Fahaka's called globe puffers but those are pretty easy to spot.

The translation of Puffer into many other languages comes out "globefish".

I just hate those names made up to sell fishes or because the ones exporting/importing don't know themselves what it is. It's a shame a shop does not know what it is selling. How can they give proper advice or know it's a freshwater species?

Just yesterday I saw a white "dwarf moray", while I know for sure this particular species (not the dwarf Gymnothorax melatremus) gets almost 3 feet.

Picture or scientific name is needed. Anything else is guessing, isn't it?

it is a bronze puffer youll find most of them only grow to 4-5" faily agressive little things and very common in the UK, i opurchased one last year for £6 so that price is very vey high

i to now think they have told me a load of crap and i will not get the puffer,this is the same lfs that gave me wrong information about the GSP so i was a little off about what they was telling me about the so called cream globe puffer.
i feel sorry for the customers and fish that travel through that shop.
its a full grown bronze puffer,im sure off it and even phoned up to ask if they had any bronze puffers but they still said no and that they only had this 1 cream globe puffer and that it is rare,lol by what i can find the only 1 ever.
i wish i took a couple off pics but dont think i will use this shop any more as there are 2 or 3 more good 1s near me,
but if i do go back and its there then i will take some pics to post on here.

Is it this fish?

http://www.aqua-fish.net/show.php?h=bronzepuffer

yes idontknow that is a 100% the fish,the 3rd pic on that site is it with out a doubt.
do you no how much these would sell for as they have it priced at £34 and i would buy it but not sure if thats the right price,is this a rare puffer because they tell me in the shop it is really rare?

The three pictures don't show the larger species, but A. modestus in my opinion.