The Puffer Forum

Off to a late start, my apologies for that!

But here we go, vote for your favorite puffer photo! You may only vote once and you may not change your vote, so vote wisely! Remember, each photo is a link that opens up to the full sized version (other than the last one, the original is pretty small), so be sure to check them out!

The winner will be featured on our home page for the following month and entered into the Puffer of the Year 2010 competition!

As always, voting runs for 10 days.

Let the voting begin!

Entry #1
My Green Spotted Puffer "Alex":
-Species: Tetraodon nigroviridis
-Age: Has been in my care for 1 month.
-Size: 1 inch Entry #2
Species: Takifugu ocellatus (Fugu puffer)
Name of Puffer: Sushi
Age (if known): at least 1.5 years
Size: 4"
Brief description - The scary hand is in my property again! Must dig. I hope the hand doesn't find me. Entry #3
- Species-Green Spotted Puffer
- Name of Puffer-Sputnik
- Age (if known)- bought 2 months ago
- Size- 2''
- Brief description - Sputnik in 29 gallon tank. Entry #4
- species - fahaka
- name - Faya Entry #5
Chub Chub the dwarf puffer.
Four days old. 1 inch. Entry #6
my fahaka puffer "Kukah"
age-unknown
species-Tetraodon lineatus
size-8"
(Kukah plays with his favorite toy in this pic) Entry #7
Tetraodon turgidus
Leon
About 2 years
4 inches
This is Leon showing his rare not so shy side. He is kept right next to
my bed and I get to wake up to his smiling face every morning. Entry #8
My GSP Janey
Species: Tetraodon nigroviridis
Age: Unknown / i have had for about 4 months
Size: About an inch and a half Entry #9
- Species - Tetraodon lineatus
- Name of Puffer - My Love!
- Age (if known) - Not known
- Size - 4 or 5 inches
- Brief description - A friend at the LFS. Entry #10
My Porcupine puffer "Mr. Fish":
- Species: Diodon holacanthus
- Age: No idea (we’ve had him for 3 years)
- Size: 7 inch

I love sushi!!

What u beautiful pic!

Dang, Sushi's in the lead! Heehee, I was torn between a couple...

SUUUSSSHHIIIIII!

yea yea yea sushi wins.... sorry kukah, we tried.... sushi has a gorgeous pic tho.... PS-vote for #6!!!!!

Sorry, I am partial...I live with sushi too....get to watch her all the time.....

pffft!!! lol. yea, im byist toward kukah.... although, i had to vote for sushi... the pic looks so artistic.... i feel bad i didnt even vote for my own puff lol.

It doesn't matter... i think every person thinks his own puffer is the cutest.. but stil than, Though is Faya's pic ( here her name is Precious i see.. ) very beautiful.. but nowhere near as beautiful as those of Sushi i think..

It must be the Photographer i think!

I gotta post pictures of Elevator again.....give Sushi a run for her money...hehe

I think its because the others aren't professional photographers.

I'm not sure that she is a professional photographer but it really doesn't matter. Most folks here vote for the cutest pic, not the best photographed one. I'll be doing that this month.

BTW, I am also a photographer & have won a few photo contests in my time (top 10 out of thousands), yet have never won a contest here.

need a disco theme contest filbert will win hands down PP

Filbert's gonna get you for that!

Looks like it's a run away! Sushi is such a pretty photogenic fish though.

And, my wife is a professional photographer and she has taken some of my POTM entry pics and I have never won or come really close. It's all in the cuteness of the fish.

Julian, we need to make Sushi sleep with the fishes....

Pufferpunk, I think you did win, once.. maybe? LOL

You guys shouldn't complain, Recombinantrider is a contributing member and has been for a long time. Back before we had rules about minimum posts to qualify for an entry, every month the POTM would be filled up by professional fish photographers from other forums that would never contribute here, that probably never even owned a puffer, just had super high quality equipment, talent and just entered here to have another "win" to add to their resume. Your standard fishkeeper couldn't compete with that!

And hey, just take Sushi as a challenge.. get those pictures in focus, and take LOTS OF THEM! Its those photos you didn't intend to take that show up as extra-cute or just breathtaking due to some action of the light on the water, etc. You can't exactly pose a fish!