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picking up a rare beast
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:40 am
by flash.dan
getting a 1.5" C borneensis tonight. cant see a pic on the pedia so ill post a few when i ave him home so that it can be added. ill put him in my sump most of it is sectioned off for the suvs but i have a 18x20 section he can go into. going to be interesting to see him hes one of the rarer small puffers i personally have never seen nor know of anyone that has any if you do please let me know some info
Re: picking up a rare beast
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 6:30 am
by LilGreenPuffer
Cool! Can't wait for the pictures!
Re: picking up a rare beast
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:16 am
by Pufferpunk
Cool! We always love to add to ther PP. Can you write us a profile when you figure out that fella?
Re: picking up a rare beast
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:09 am
by liquid88
this should be interesting
Re: picking up a rare beast
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:38 pm
by flash.dan
been a slight delay as the person who owns him/her is working late but ill get him tomorrow its amazing the puffers only 3 minutes away from my house apparently the owner is a huge puffer fan and has kept some rare puffers inca 14" Pustulatus (see below) hes moving so has sold up. im extatic about this bornean. ill post some pics of him tomorrow and after a few weeks of monitering him like a hawk ill write a little article i suspect he will be similar to lorteti, irrubesco and salivator but we will see =)
im happy and sad happy that after the pie im extatic about getting another puffer but feel quite sad feels like cheating on a loved one... anyway here is his Pustulatus I CANNOT BELIEVE HE SOLD IT!!! if only i knew
Re: picking up a rare beast
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:01 pm
by Jase
What a beautiful puffer! Lookin forward to pics of your new little guy.
Re: picking up a rare beast
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:10 pm
by liquid88
wow thats gorgeous...
Re: picking up a rare beast
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:08 am
by flash.dan
yea the cross riveer was sold so so cheap aswell.... he was sold just after cutie died at the time i had a free 6x2 aswell. what a shame but ill get the little fella later hopefully should be just as interesting
Re: picking up a rare beast
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:16 am
by crazedpuffer
That puffers amazing.
Re: picking up a rare beast
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:25 am
by Hilly
flash.dan wrote:getting a 1.5" C borneensis tonight. cant see a pic on the pedia so ill post a few when i ave him home so that it can be added. ill put him in my sump most of it is sectioned off for the suvs but i have a 18x20 section he can go into. going to be interesting to see him hes one of the rarer small puffers i personally have never seen nor know of anyone that has any if you do please let me know some info
A guy on here called Fella had some a few years back. We got them from BAS. I got Salivator and he got Borneensis. In temprament they were very similar Male chased the female constantly in a single pair, eventually they had to be seperated. Nice looking smalle puffers though.
Re: picking up a rare beast
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:24 pm
by Corvus
In the 80s C. borneensis was imported more regularly. One guy apparently even bred them, but they were generally called C. lorteti. It became clearer later that they are two different species and that many C. lorteti of these days were C. borneensis.
Re: picking up a rare beast
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:21 pm
by flash.dan
ive certainly never seen any in the UK before although loretti are pretty common.
Re: picking up a rare beast
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:18 pm
by Hilly
Found the thread, was way back in 06 but there is a pic of the male.
Borneensis