My Arrowhead

[RedPeasant]

Below are some pictures of my arrowhead puffer to share with you people

[Pufferpunk]

Great pics.

You fed that pretty blue crab to him? Wasn't it $$$?

[drives2002bmw]

I was wondering what type of plant is in the second picture? the plant that has those long leaves directly behind the arrowhead and behind its tail in the last picture?

[Guilhem]

Beautiful pics and puffer

I was wondering what type of plant is in the second picture? the plant that has those long leaves directly behind the arrowhead and behind its tail in the last picture?

This plant look like a Crinum natans

[RedPeasant]

You fed that pretty blue crab to him? Wasn't it $$$?

Nope, when i bought her, she was the size of my little finger(5cm) and cost only $1. Had it in my main tank as a bottom feeder for about 4 months. When she was puffer food, she have grown to 15cm and 4 times the thickness.

She was the last of a batch of 4 red claw crayfish that I bought for an experiment. I realize very quickly that although they may look slow and clumpy, somehow they still manage to make short work of all my guppies and mollies in the tank. However I must say they do a great job cleaning up the tank.

[RedPeasant]

I was wondering what type of plant is in the second picture? the plant that has those long leaves directly behind the arrowhead and behind its tail in the last picture?

Those are Crinum calamistratum, a type of onion plant. They take up quite a room space as they grow both horizontally and vertically.

[RedPeasant]

This plant look like a Crinum natans

Mine is a Crinum calamistratum.

Crinum natans has broader leaves than Crinum calamistratum and is also less light demanding. However both leaves are not eaten by herbivorous fishes as they don't like the sturdy fibers of the leaves and can tolerates weak brackish water.

[EliWhitney314]

beautiful puffer

[marksrush]

Man we charge twenty bucks for crayfish like that!

[RedPeasant]

I believe mine at this size should be able to fetch a 5 buck at most LFS