The Puffer Forum

Hi everyone,

i would like to ask if you guys could help confirm identity of my Puffers.
I bought them under their general name, so i am not sure.
After checking the Pufferpedia and a lot of links on the web i would say they are Carinotetraodon Lorteti,
but the blueish color of the males tail looks a little like a borneensis.
Also even one and the same fish can look different on each photo.

Could you have a look?

male:
http://www.directupload.net/file/d/3617 ... 8f_jpg.htm
female:
http://www.directupload.net/file/d/3617 ... h8_jpg.htm

Those are Lorteti. I hope they are in at least 20g of water with a lot of broken lines of sight. They are VERY aggressive, even to each other. I tried to add 2 males with a female I had. She killed the 1st male right away & after breeding with the 2nd one 3x, she murdered him, too.

Thanks for the Heads up about those little combatives
i have them in a 40g tank which is heavily planted. The male can (and does) spend half of the day without me knowing where he is.
i got them a good week ago and i think they are slowly settling down in their new environment.
the first days they were going up and down the glass which worried me a little, but after reading that most puffer are not bread in captivity but taken from nature i guess thats normal for such a change. now they start to swim through the tank as the DP i have in another tank.

i read about other Puffer (irrubesco, borneensis) that they are night active, can someone confirm that for the Lorteti?
i see them still swimming around when the main light goes off and now i find a lot of my MTS snails, or the empty shells to be precise, on the ground.
those snails survived years with my dwarf puffers i had in this tank before and they only come out at night.

Other inhabitans are only a few Hemigrammus amandae and a group of corydoras which i am willing to move to another tank.
hope it works out between the 2 puffers.

Yes, please do move any other tank mates. They will not fare well with these puffers at all.

still well both Puffers and now a little more settled in the tank, more relaxed:

http://i62.tinypic.com/fzcina.jpg