The Puffer Forum

Hey guys I just saw a post on a facebook group dedicated to puffers and a girl on there said she could tell the sex of a gsp. I didnt think that was possible.
Here's her way of telling a male from a female:-
males will have brighter colors than the female, he also has a long torpedo shape body.The female will have less green and more brown also she will be shorter and fatter

I think that person is confused/guessing. Females may swell with eggs if the conditions are right. Even the most experienced puffer experts can't tell them apart

What group is this?

Never mind.. Found it, corrected some info, called all sorts of names & left, all in about 1/2 hour. What's wrong with people??? Telling me to stop referring to Wickipedia? When do I ever do that?

Pufferpunk wrote:What group is this?

Never mind.. Found it, corrected some info, called all sorts of names & left, all in about 1/2 hour. What's wrong with people??? Telling me to stop referring to Wickipedia? When do I ever do that?

Whats the name of the group you went on PP?

We don't even know if they have separate genders or if they are hermaphrodites. They could also change their gender through life like many other fishes.
In addition, there is this one study from the Univ. of Florida in which GSP were bred (using hormones to induce the development of eggs) and although they had lots of specimens they had no clue which were functioning as females or males except the development of eggs. Claims of people who "know" how to sex GSPs should be taken with a lot of scepticism.

Arny wrote: Whats the name of the group you went on PP?

PUFFER FISH....BRACKISH, FRESH, MARINE.

The good news is, I might have found someone from that page to be of service here as Tech Staff!

Yeah that's the one. I've been correcting a few things on there myself. Friendly bunch of people though. What's the name of the person that maybe helping you out? I might know them

Not very friendly to me! I only lasted 1/2 hour, before they were asking me to leave. They don't like being corrected. One of the Admins there had nothing good to say about this site. Nick Maynard is the fellow offering to help out here.

Do they know you run this forum?
I think they're just worried as soon as people start going to the links for TPF everyone there will just end up coming straight here for advise. I posted a link from here on there and the main admin replied why go to TPF when you can get all your info here on FB

That a-hole admin just spammed every single post on our FB page with his banner!

not all the admin are A-holes

I know that, just that one & another one just spammed the FB page, too.

That's not cool

That is just truly childish! You go over and offer some correct info and just get insulted. You are better off out of it, I won't even view that page because I will likely get the same responses, pointless

Pfft what a bunch of losers. I will see if they let me join the group so I can monitor their posts in the shadows.