The Puffer Forum

I was perusing the aquatic advertisements today and came across this one:

Description: Very nice MBU puffer fish for sale 14" long and very fat! He quite happily eats 6 large mussells in one sitting. Current tank mates are 2 pleco around 12" a scissor tail barb and 2 mollies, of which he leaves alone. £120 ono. Also selling complete tank set up 3ft RENA bow tank with 2 external Fluval 405, air stone & pump and twin light system. £350 the lot including Mr Magoo the MBU.

Can you believe this guy has this 14" Mbu, with two 12" plecostomus', a barb and 2 mollies all in a 3-foot tank? What was he thinking?
Heck, my BeeBoo isn't that big yet and I'd never consider having him in my 3-foot tank!

He obviously wasnt thinking. Unfortunately this is often the case.

Very true.. I know people who have a mbu in a 18" wide tank..
& some others say they can live in a 120 g their wholes lives

Unfortunately, this will be perpetuated in the same tank, as he's selling them all together with it.

Pufferpunk wrote:Unfortunately, this will be perpetuated in the same tank, as he's selling them all together with it.

That was my thought too, and I wanted to contact him to tell him how wrong it was, but as he's selling them on, I'm sure he doesn't care. I just can't believe he can't see how crowded that must be ..... and the bioload, my goodness!!

Don't necessarily know if he had the MBU in that tank necessarily, he's just selling it along with some of his fish (giveing the guy the benifit of the doubt). Possible he has more than one tank...