The Puffer Forum

I just wanted to let you guys know that the reticularis i was parting with is going to a great home! Hes going to the national aquarium in the huge display tank.
Im so pleased they have agreed to take him and i hope it will enable him to live a long a happy life! I plan on going to see him regularly as im gonna miss him greatly!

I am sorry to hear that you will be parting with him.

At least you will be able to visit him and see him in an environment that, though all of us wish we could, you could not have provided him at home.

Yep i could never provided him with such a huge space!
I have to take him down tomorrow morning and not looking forward to it as i have a feeling hes gonna be a monster to catch!
He's gonna be in a huge bag inside a polystyrene box gonna be travelling for about an hour, he should be alright for the journey without a pump or anything shouldn't he?

Oh, wow! What a great home! You can rest easy knowing that he's going to have a terrific life.

An hour in the bag without a pump should be absolutely fine.

What good news for that fish! You're definately doing right by him & I hope you can visit often.

I think it's great that you think enough about him to go to the trouble of finding such a great home for him. You are really showing how much you care by what you are doing. He will love his new home, I'm sure of it.

And I think he will be fine for the journey, I've travelled longer than that with puffers in a bag, so yours should be fine.

Thank you for your kind words, i really do care about him and am extremely upset he is going but it is definatley for the best and i am so grateful to the aquarium for agreeing to take him. My next big challenge will be getting him into the bag! lol

Just think - he'll even have aquatic vets!

I am pleased to say that all went well this morning and he is now sat in one of their quarantine tanks where he will stay for 4 weeks before going into th main tank. They showed me all the behind the scenes things and then took me to see the puffers in the tank he will be in. i must say i have never seen such healthy and happy puffers before. There were 3 dog face a guinea fowl and a stars & stripes, all very fat and just swimming around!

Which Aquarium, Plymouth? I want to visit him!

Yeah Plymouth! im gonna take the kids down to see him once he's outta quarantine

What a lovely way for a puffer to live out it's life -- about as close to getting back to the wild as I would imagine it could get! Good for you for doing such a nice thing for it.

Plymouth Aquarium is great! I've been so many times. Love the conservation work they do. I will definitely visit him next time I go, & I will let you know how he is!!

My Husband got home tonight walked in and said, where's he gone i didn't think you'd really take him! followed by can we go to the aquarium on saturday coz i didn't get to say bye! He's a big softie really! lol i cant wait till he's out of quarantine and i can see him in his new home!

How nice is that, to give your puffer a nice big home, and to get to go see him as well? Best of both worlds really.