The Puffer Forum

Hi i,m gonna be getting a Butterfly Goby / Waspfish (Neovespicula depressifrons) in a few weeks.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod ... catid=2532

My main concern is it's venomous.. Would this hurt or kill my F8 puffer if he happened to get stung?

Those who have SW Loinfish and house other fish in there tanks with them I would like to hear from too.

Also on side note...Which I'm not really too worried about since I don't touch my fish and am not allergic to bee stings. If I happened to get stung it would require a trip to the ER? You just pour hot water on it and be done with it right?

Dsmdan95 wrote:Hi i,m gonna be getting a Butterfly Goby / Waspfish (Neovespicula depressifrons) in a few weeks.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod ... catid=2532

My main concern is it's venomous.. Would this hurt or kill my F8 puffer if he happened to get stung?

Those who have SW Loinfish and house other fish in there tanks with them I would like to hear from too.

Also on side note...Which I'm not really too worried about since I don't touch my fish and am not allergic to bee stings. If I happened to get stung it would require a trip to the ER? You just pour hot water on it and be done with it right?

I had one for about a year and a half at SG1.005, it never stung the puffers or me at water change time, the venom comes from the dorsal fin spines so you would only get stung if you tried to handle it.

Mine died prematurely and I suspect that the tank salinity was too low (it may have been picked on by the other fish but I never saw it), a bloke on TFF keeps his above SG1.008.
If you do go ahead and get it be prepared for using live foods and swirling the food around because they are much slower on the uptake than puffers, you may be lucky in weaning him off live foods but I only managed to get him to eat frozen bloodworms on a couple of occassions.
I'm not trying to be negative only pointing out the problems that I had - mine was an absolutely lovely fish for the short time i had him and I'm sad that I couldn't have done better for him. i will probably try again in the future but with a mid salinity tank and housed in a species only tank or with other slow feeders

My F8s have eaten many of their tank mates, even the mollies. I'd think they might pick on the waspfish.