The Puffer Forum

I was looking aroung on the Web about mixing a porcupine in a reef tank and found this fellow

http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/gen ... uffer.html

That puffer is dyed, for sure.

I used to work in an experimental lab where we were looking at carentoid pigments for use in flamingos..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canthaxanthin

eta..this one..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astaxanthin

Beautiful porcy

Sorry to say, probably more like this: http://www.deathbydyeing.org/

Used to see that all the time back in the UK with neon dyed glass cat-fish.


we saw some a couple of years ago and the spawn wanted to buy some until Puffer gohti explained exactly how the fish were coloured...and why we would never buy them...

Poor Porky

The OP of that thread, also said he saw them in blue.

I kept reading and it says that the owner of that fish bought it from lfs naturally colored but it changed after a year