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Greetings and salutations to all you fine members of The Puffer Forum!

Thanks to a quick and impressive response, the March 2010 POTM is getting underway only a few days late, and you guys have some excellent photos to vote on! I have a feeling its going to be pretty tough this month, with all the cute faces.. but we'll do our best So lets cut to the chase:

*** Poll will run for 10 days, after 10 days the winner will be announced
*** Click on each thumbnail to view the full sized image
*** Members may only vote once, and may not change their vote, so vote wisely!

The winner will be featured on the TPF Home Page for the following month, and automatically entered into the Puffer of the Year photo contest held annually.

As always, we are always accepting entries for the following month, so get those shutters clicking and entries emailed!

Let the voting begin!

Entry #1
Species: Tetraodon Nigroviridis (GSP)
- Name of Puffer : Huggles
- Age: Approx. unknown (owned for less than 2 months)
- Size: Approx. 2 inches
Huggles lives with another GSP named Piggy in a brackish 60 gallon tank. One day I was taking numerous pictures and Huggles began to swim to her sunken ship when she turned around dramatically and gave me a look that meant "Stop taking pictures of me" I took one more pic, this one...and then I stepped away before she hit me. Entry #2
Species: Tetraodon nigroviridis
Name: Freddy
Age: Approx 2 years, owned for 14 months, 1 1/2 inches when purchased
Size: 4 1/2 inches
Other: Likes brushing his body against your finger, will bite though! He is in a 75 FOWLR Marine tank with some misc. damsels, a clownfish, 12 inch snowflake eel, six line wrasse and lawnmower blenny. Entry #3
South American Puffer (Colomesus asellus)
Fish of my affection since Sept 2009, not sure exact age.
Size- 1.5-2 inches of cuteness and love
Lil' Fish finally catching up with flake of food he was chasing down. Entry #4
Species: Tetraodon Nigroviridis
Name of Puffer: Taylor
Age: Unknown (have had for over 2.5 years)
Size: Approx 3 inches
We caught one of our puffers coming up to the top with big boogely eyes thinking, "Where's the food!?" Entry #5
Species: Tetraodon MBU
Name Of Puffer: Puffy
Age: Unknown
Size: 10 inches
Description: Living peacefully with cichlids. Entry #6
This is Beetroot my Fahaka.
- Tetraodon Lineatus
- Beetroot
- 2 Years and 5 Months
- About 35cm
- Beetroot was in a particularly cheery mood on the day we took this photo. He "flew" out from his home right up to the front of the tank as we approached the tank. So we just started snapping shots of him all trigger happy and this was the outcome. Entry #7
Little Mookie
Species - GSP
Size - 1.25"
Mookie wears his heart on his sleeve Entry #8
species- fahaka
name- kukah
age- 1 yr +
size- 10"
discription- i just like this pic, i think its a beautiful shot Entry #9
pecies Carinotetraodon biocellatus
Age 3 years old
Size 3-4 inches long
Named Muldoonican (or Spotty Muldoon) owned for 3 years in a low end brackish set up with a swarm of bumblebee gobies, a second Fig 8 puffer and 4 American flagfish. His favourite food is ghost shrimp and his favourite hobby is posing for the camera with a huge grin on his face. Entry #10
Tetraodon miurus
Name - Ziva
age - approx 2yrs
size- 3.5 inches

Eeeep! I'm glad my entry was too late for this month... Just look at the fierce competition! Great photos guys and gals.

I will admit, Beetroot is now the background image on my laptop My boyfriend refuses to believe that smile is not Photoshopped on!

I'll have to remember to show him Muldoon now too He looks like a happy fish version of Budda!

OMG, why did all the cutest shots ever, have too all be in one contest?!

i started laughing when i saw beetroot, awesome picture!

WooHoo!
Go Beetroot!!

That smile is one of a kind!

Wow so many cute faces..what a amazing pic of Beetroot..i had to look twice reminded me of kermit the frog lol

Oh that Beetroot is just the cutest thing, if that can't bring a smile to your face, then nothing can! All the photos are awesome, great going puffer-peeps!!

beetroot awesome Smile.

Don

They are all awesome puffers! I have to sit and ponder on this one a while

Beetroot made me say "awwww" out loud.

My new camera isn't the greatest for puffer pictures, unfortunately. I might have to borrow a friend's camera and try to get a shot in next month.

jennybugs, where did you get that signature picture? Adorable!

I think whatever doesn't win should be re-entered!

LilGreenPuffer wrote: jennybugs, where did you get that signature picture? Adorable!

I found it online some years ago. It's great isn't it?

I normally don't vote on this because I have a terrible photographers eye and usually just end up voting for the fattest GSP, but have decided to vote for Mookie in memoriam. I would, however, love to see the raw image right off the camera of that Beetroot photo, so I could make wallpapers.

Hi Nick,
What do you mean by the raw picture?
Do you mean the picture in RAW format?
I could send you the picture for keeps, just let me know how I can do that for you.

Cheers!