The Puffer Forum

So I'm curious. I read and hear about how some marine puffers like the stars and stripes will spit water out of their tanks usually at some unsuspecting owner. But what about other large puffers like the mbu or the fahaka. Is it only the marine guys that exhibit this behavior or is it all of the larger puffers?

My old GSP would spit water when he was excited at feeding time & I was being too slow - made a really cute noise!

Awww!

That's cute!! My dwarf gourami would spit at my fingers when I'd feed them. The food would fall out then, he was smart!!

My mbu cutie pie spat at me once i imagine about 100ml of water but was enough to really soak my face (right in my eyes) granted i did have her face up in a bucket with tweezers getting a snails trap door out of her throat she was about 10" at the time. wasnt pleasent at all...... quite funny looking back now

oh dear that is funny lol

At 10 inches I bet you did have your hands full with getting that shell out.

qtrhorse89 wrote:oh dear that is funny lol

At 10 inches I bet you did have your hands full with getting that shell out.

not only that i was petrified and shaking..... luckily enough she realised i was trying to help and kept still just got a wet face for my trouble

Paris (mid sized saltwater burrfish) will occasionally spit water at me, usually if she thinks I'm taking too long in getting her food ready or when I'm doing water changes. She seems to feel that if I'm dumping water into her tank, she needs to spit it back out at me *sigh*

She is quite talented at getting me right in the eye too. I don't know why puffers are so fascinated with eyes, but they sure seem to have evil plots to rip them out of our heads sometimes.. or is that just me imagining it? LOL

None of my smaller puffers ever did this though (GSP's, figure 8, etc).